 The company cancelled all of its petrol-powered motorsports programmes to focus on electric racing, but will allow development of the Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 to continue.In 2019, the championship was run as the World Rally Championship-2 Pro, a class within the World Rally Championship-2 for professional crews entered by manufacturer teams.However, the multi-class structure was found to be too confusing, and so the category was re-structured for the 2020 season.