WRC vs IRC

[AndyRAC]

Then maybe they should have given the promoter contract to Eurosport instead of North One...

Mm, not sure about that. Look at the WTCC, struggling - while Eurosport give them plenty of coverage, World Championships need to be on normal TV, like F1 is.

[Simmi]

Mm, not sure about that. Look at the WTCC, struggling - while Eurosport give them plenty of coverage, World Championships need to be on normal TV, like F1 is.

I wouldn't want to trust the running of my favourite championship to Eurosport. No chance. Even before the money problems, with all their various commitments they surely spread themselves too thin to effectively promote something.

[RS]

Mm, not sure about that. Look at the WTCC, struggling - while Eurosport give them plenty of coverage, World Championships need to be on normal TV, like F1 is.

If Eurosport were the promoter it wouldn't mean the championship could only be on Eurosport.

[N.O.T]

nice...more "fortune tellers" threads please....and why stay on 2011 lets have some outrageous assumptions about the years to come as well...in 2356 for example...what about then ??

are you guys with all those junk posting doing it on purpose ??? or it comes naturally out of yourselves?

and to answer some of those "not so smart" questions.... name a driver that will do a 25+ races per season and a manufacturer with the money to support it !!!!

[Brother John]

IRC will live just as long someone is interested to pay the bill, and Eurosport is not doing so well, no one or nobody is trying to kill it or need it killed.

Why not the current S2000 cars in SWIRC as IRC and S1600T as WRC cars?

[Langdale Forest]

I don't follow the IRC, but I might start this year.

[noel157]

I don't follow the IRC, but I might start this year.

Please don't. It's really boring and certainly not cool. You wouldn't like it. Best just to stick to WRC, much more hip and more exciting.

[gravelman]

Please don't. It's really boring and certainly not cool. You wouldn't like it. Best just to stick to WRC, much more hip and more exciting.

yeah theres a chance of more than 3 drivers winning a rally, not to be recommended

[Langdale Forest]

Please don't. It's really boring and certainly not cool. You wouldn't like it. Best just to stick to WRC, much more hip and more exciting.

The cars in the current WRC sound boring, like a mouldy crumpet infact.

[macksrallye]

The only things that the IRC is missing is the name "World Rally Championship" & a couple of iconic events that the WRC has held onto (eg: 1000 Lakes).

The competition between drivers is better in IRC. The event formats are better in IRC. The cars sound magnificent in the IRC. The TV coverage is better in IRC (although I admit it probably doesn't reach as many people outside europe).

The WRC is too far out of reach for people to aspire to. Back in the late 70's & early 80's the cars didn't cost as much as transporting them around the world for 12 months, the same as in the GrpA era. The problem with the WRC is that the rules & regs mean that manu's & privateers need to spend stupid amounts of money to have a go. Even people with seemingly endless money behind them dropout due to funding (Novikov & Rautenbach anyone). Surely that should tell North ISC or what/whoever they are now that there is a problem. Wake-up, look at what the IRC have been able to do purely because people aren't happy with the WRC. It's about time rallying took a few steps back & tried again.