WRC in Winter

[AndyRAC]

Lol, if the teams are serious about the sport, they for sure choose their drivers in a different way, or do you think that if Loeb would be on Rautenbach's level as a driver that he would now drive the Citroen?

No, of course not. They can do what Citroen have done/are doing with the 2 Sebs - groom a young driver then when they are ready put them in their car.

[Tomi]

No, of course not. They can do what Citroen have done/are doing with the 2 Sebs - groom a young driver then when they are ready put them in their car.

That project is just as much old Seb's as it is Citroens, and it could be done without any particular manufacturer also, good example is Urmo Aava, good plan and a good choise of car to full fill it, after all it's only about convincing some team about the skills.

[Rally Power]

Would be much better to return WRC events from Monday to Wednesday, all newspapers pages for Rallying, all TV minutes for Rallying as was in the past. So no new (crazy) ideas, just use what you know it can work

Good Idea!!!

I still remember the old days Rally de Portugal beginning on a Wednesday and ending at the Saturday night…at that time the country was “closed”, because everybody followed the rally.

With the 12 courses calendar, each rally could growth at least a day (over to 500 stage kms), bringing the “adventurous” side of rallying.

In same way the Dakar “mediatic” interest that keeps hundreds of fans glued to the screen for 15 days, is linked with the standardization of the WRC rallys that took place in the late 90’s.

There’s no need to make up “super-rally” schemes or featuring super special stages in amazing and odd places, just respect the Rally Spirit and the old days legacy…

[jso1985]

It doesn't matter how good or bad the WRC is/isn't the coverage in Finland will always be good - it is the 'home of Rallying'. However for the rest of Europe/World it isn't the case.

and how you know it?
here WRC is the only motorsport and among the few sports we get on terrestrial TV
and with the cable TV coverage it gets, only F1 and TC2000 have better media exposure.
maybe the fact that our chances of having a national driver on the series are near 0% actually help that the interest doesn't go up and down like in the UK.

but back on topic, I don't think the "winter" calendar changes anything... instead of starting with Monte and finishing with Wales Rally, it starts with Rally Finland and finishes with Rally Greece or Turkey without changing the actual dates, right?