The championship had hoped to roll out a 14-round schedule for this season, although plans to add an event in the Middle East failed to come to fruition.
However, the target to add a desert based round in Saudi Arabia remains a key goal for 2024, with plans for a test event to be held later this year.
“Our ambition is 14 events. I think we will be quite happy with 14 events for the medium-term future,” WRC event director Simon Larkin told Autosport.
“I think it works best for the teams when it comes to testing, logistics and transport. There's no point in just pushing the number of events, we are not like MotoGP or Formula 1 that can do back-to-backs. We don't want to.
“If we are going to have 14 events, each of them should be a very unique chapter of the story of the season and I think if we can get a Middle Eastern event for next year, which is the plan, I think we'd be very happy of the look and feel of each individual event. I think a desert style event is the one that we are missing.”
The 2024 calendar is already starting to take shape with Portugal announcing last weekend that it has agreed a new deal with the WRC for 2024, with an option to extend for 2025.
The gravel event joins Monte Carlo, Sweden, Acropolis, Safari, the Central European Rally and Chile which have contracts in place for 2023, while Finland, Sardinia and Japan are also expected to remain on the schedule.
Latvia has already been announced as one new addition for 2023 and is expected to replace Estonia. The only question marks concerning events currently on the calendar surround Croatia and Mexico.
Source: Autosport