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15th January 2009, 10:16 #1Senior Member
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Reputable rally news sites?
Just wondering which sites people consider to be reputable as we've been shown over the last few weeks that a lot of sites and blogs are just rumours/opinion. Sadly it seems since the WRC experienced a downturn the standard of journalism/reporting has gone way down and any person can do an Auto Express and publish fantastic rumours and by the time they've been shown to be false they've published loads of other rumours which have people captivated.
For me the best (english language) sites for reputable news are
www.Autosport.com
www.crash.net
www.wrc.com
and my friends at www.rallye-info.com who seem to be more into S2000 than the WRC these days but at least when they post a story it's factual.
Used to love worldrallynews.com but sadly David Williams passed on
Where do you get your news? Personally all this tabloid style crap that passes itself off as news these days bores the crap out of me
Rule 1 of the forum, always accuse anyone who disagrees with you of bias.I would say that though.
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I'd have to agree with you - We are not served particularly well, general media sites, i;e BBC, Newspapers don't cover it at all. Autosport is usually pretty good, however you normally have to be a subscriber to get more in depth stories.
I find rally-info good, yes they do more IRC/s2000 but I think that is reasonable - it seems to be a series trying to make progress.
I find Jerry Williams of Motorsport News entertaining with his weekly rant at the WRC. Pity it's not online.
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15th January 2009, 11:09 #3Senior Member
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I find autosport.cz a pretty good site, with actual news, no gossip or rumours and only hard facts. It is unfortunally in Czech language, but nothing Google translation can't solve.
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I tend to wait for the major news to pass the Autosport test before I believe it. There's just a lot of crap sites on the net.
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15th January 2009, 11:18 #5Senior Member
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There is not so many good, maybe http://www.crash.net and http://www.mtv3.fi/ralli/ are good ones.
And for online results the Czech site is very good.Aja kovaa Pena.
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http://www.rallybuzz.com/
Great up to date news with WRC and IRC news.
Updated daily with email subscription and emails sent out each day.
The team do fantastic!GG: "I'm stinky! I needa good shower and nice bowl of pasta!"
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Errr no
Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
No that is not reputable. A site which posts rumours is not reputable.
http://www.rallybuzz.com/solberg-citroen-xsara-wrc/Rule 1 of the forum, always accuse anyone who disagrees with you of bias.I would say that though.
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15th January 2009, 11:53 #8Senior Member
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Sorry, but they got the details from another website.... Originally Posted by Daniel
Errr no No that is not reputable. A site which posts rumours is not reputable.
http://www.rallybuzz.com/solberg-citroen-xsara-wrc/
Damn...GG: "I'm stinky! I needa good shower and nice bowl of pasta!"
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Personally, I tend to both agree and disagree with you. I think rumours is OK as far as it's clear that it's a rumour. But that's just my personal opinion... Originally Posted by Daniel
Errr no No that is not reputable. A site which posts rumours is not reputable.
http://www.rallybuzz.com/solberg-citroen-xsara-wrc/for fun? never! sports are serious stuff.
my wrc/irc/rally blog: http://www.maxattack.net
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15th January 2009, 12:08 #10Senior Member
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autosport.cz is a great site,they always have first-hand infos from a maniac on every possible rally (wonder who ?
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