Michelle Mouton and WRC Rallies

[MJW]

British motor sports publications Motorsport News and Autosport both running the story this week that Michelle Mouton is rumoured to have been offered the rallying portfolio under FIA President Jean Todt. Sebastien Loeb has said that between them Jean and Michelle that rallying will be in safe hands. Malcolm Wilson also commented positively, saying that Michelle has a great knowledge of the sport and also due to her RoC experience understand the commercial realities. Michelle does not confirm anything about being offered the post but is reported to have said "WRC has a great future and potential, for too long now we have chased the sprint element and its time to return to older style rallying.

[AndyRAC]

British motor sports publications Motorsport News and Autosport both running the story this week that Michelle Mouton is rumoured to have been offered the rallying portfolio under FIA President Jean Todt. Sebastien Loeb has said that between them Jean and Michelle that rallying will be in safe hands. Malcolm Wilson also commented positively, saying that Michelle has a great knowledge of the sport and also due to her RoC experience understand the commercial realities. Michelle does not confirm anything about being offered the post but is reported to have said "WRC has a great future and potential, for too long now we have chased the sprint element and its time to return to older style rallying.

Bravo!!

[WRCfan]

+1

[Josti]

Excellent.

[J4MIE]

[BDunnell]

Wow. If true, that could be an excellent appointment.

[Tomi]

Wow. If true, that could be an excellent appointment.

Agree, but the commercial realities and long rallies dont go hand in hand, and at the end usually the commercial win.

[J.Lindstroem]

Everybody have to see the commercial realities, these days it is not possible to go back to the long stages and stuff like that, we have to have more live material that the public atcually can see but still save the wrc from what FIA has formed it as. I think that there is a great balance to find in the middle, with a Wrc that looks more like yesterday but stll has a lot of live material and media coverage.

This is all good, i think. Rallying is nowadays i great hands i think with Jeans and Michelles passion and knowledge of the sport!

All good mates!

[ShiftingGears]

Wow. If true, that could be an excellent appointment.

Yes, agreed.

[HaCo]

Everybody have to see the commercial realities, these days it is not possible to go back to the long stages and stuff like that, we have to have more live material that the public atcually can see but still save the wrc from what FIA has formed it as. I think that there is a great balance to find in the middle, with a Wrc that looks more like yesterday but stll has a lot of live material and media coverage.

1) Things in the past always look a lot better then they actually were. Not only in sports.
2) Commercial reality's? Sorry, but that shouldn't be the highest priority of any kind of event. Imagine they shorten a marathon because it's commercially more interesting.
3) The manufactures. Leave them out of the decision proces. A lot of people are bashing FIA for decisions in the past, but what do manufactures bring in positive? Subaru and Mitsubishi delayed the cheaper WRC and where are they now? We lost maybe 2years because of them. Then Citroen and Ford with there tactics: great kind of sporting!
4) The sport and the competition itself should be in the center of the whole debate. It should become popular because there is great competition, because ppl are impressed by the cars, the drivers, the stages, ..., the sport! and that will make the sport automatically commercially attractive. If it becomes a popular platform, manufactures will come automatically to the sport because it is commercially attractive to them. The decision will be made a lot easier when the development and running cost of cars is low.

Is it a good thing Michelle Mouton is offered the rallying portofolio? Because of ROC? Not at all! ROC has nothing to do with rallying! Because she was ones a good rallydriver? Well there are a lot of other rallydrivers out there. I'm not saying she's a bad candidate, just wonder what the hell makes her a good one?