To Jost Capito: Regarding the layout of the WRC

[GigiGalliNo1]

Interview with Capito:

PODCAST! Listen

http://irallylive.com/ir_news.htm?00006922&10

[janvanvurpa]

Hördu Lundi-fret!
Here's how I try to explain to icke Nordic peoples about the ''local meanings of introvert and normal and extrovert''

How do you know if you are talking with a normal health typical ________________ (choose Swede, or Norwegian)?

Answer: easy he looks at his feet when he talks to you.

Now how do you know you're talking to "a wild and crazy guy", the life of the party, a attention whore and drama queen--a genuine extrovert?

Answer: EASY!


He looks at your feet when he's talking to you..

And above, your ideas, you have to find at least 3-4 of those extroverts who actually happen to know something..
Finns det verkligen 3 eller 4 ''riktiga extroverts'' som vet nåt i hela Norden?
Jag tror inte det.

[Barreis]

Capito is really good manager, nothing more...

[Sulland]

Rally need simplifying, not more factors that makes it hard to explain to non-petrolheads.

Classes: wrc 1, wrc 2, wrc 3 as today.

System: you start in Ss1 and end the rally at the last stage. The quickest man wins.
If the car breakes, you are out.
If you go offroad: you are out.
More services than today. Drivers can have team support from a team of mechanics in a van, as it used to be.

Learn from Eurosport/ IRC with live productions as they produced. They were exiting.
Stream them live, 1 hr TV every night. (40 min WRC 1, 15 min WRC 2, 5 min WRC 3)

No double points, no points for the win of the last stage, no other tricks than that the car that wins most rallies during the season becomes world champions.

The key here is streaming over the internet. This is the area they need to put money into.

Make it simple, rather than more intricate than it already is!

[FUNKYXXXXX]

Rally need simplifying, not more factors that makes it hard to explain to non-petrolheads.

Classes: wrc 1, wrc 2, wrc 3 as today.

System: you start in Ss1 and end the rally at the last stage. The quickest man wins.
If the car breakes, you are out.
If you go offroad: you are out.
More services than today. Drivers can have team support from a team of mechanics in a van, as it used to be.

Learn from Eurosport/ IRC with live productions as they produced. They were exiting.
Stream them live, 1 hr TV every night. (40 min WRC 1, 15 min WRC 2, 5 min WRC 3)

No double points, no points for the win of the last stage, no other tricks than that the car that wins most rallies during the season becomes world champions.

The key here is streaming over the internet. This is the area they need to put money into.

Make it simple, rather than more intricate than it already is!

Exactly. I agree 100% .

[Rallyper]

Rally need simplifying, not more factors that makes it hard to explain to non-petrolheads.

Classes: wrc 1, wrc 2, wrc 3 as today.

System: you start in Ss1 and end the rally at the last stage. The quickest man wins.
If the car breakes, you are out.
If you go offroad: you are out.
More services than today. Drivers can have team support from a team of mechanics in a van, as it used to be.


No double points, no points for the win of the last stage, no other tricks than that the car that wins most rallies during the season becomes world champions.

The key here is streaming over the internet. This is the area they need to put money into.

Make it simple, rather than more intricate than it already is!

But more drama to come if you can vid mechanics trying to repair car down the road section, which should be allowed in the future. That gives the people more heroes and the media more to review.

[Lundefaret]

But more drama to come if you can vid mechanics trying to repair car down the road section, which should be allowed in the future. That gives the people more heroes and the media more to review.

Big parts of what makes this sport so interseting is not made a point of on TV/ in media.

- Engineering
- Team
- Mechanics
- Recce
- Driving Technique
- Strategy
- Etc

One should take all these factors an think of ways to make them as spectacular for TV as possible.

Logistically Rallying can be compared to Special Soldiers goin to war behind enemy lines.
You have a big supporting team of engineers, mechanics, team personel, logistics people, catering etc etc, that is there to support two or three special forces teams, that are planning an attack behind enemy lines.
If they have problems, the supporting team needs to react, and help them.

Remote service is one very dramatic factor that should, if viable, be put back in to the sport.
There where problems with the teams having to race with the trucks, making it unsafe etc, but it could be done in a more orderly fashion.

To se two pair of mechanics feet from under a rally car on the side of the road, working desperatly with tools and parts out from a small van, is very "rally". And I think You need factors like this to balance it against the big service aerea that has now rissen as a result of the Micke Mouse layout of the modern rallies.

There are so many aspects that make rallying interesting, and so many heroes in the sport on top of the drivers, that there should be a lot to pick and chose from to make good television/internet broadcasts.

[Abarth]

From www.autosport.com


The World Rally Championship will definitely undergo significant format changes for 2015, senior figures have confirmed to AUTOSPORT.

As outlined previously, the option most likely to be selected for the revamp is the final-stage shootout system favoured by Volkswagen team principal Jost Capito.

That plan has gathered support since evolutions were made following criticism from within the sport.

The new version of the format will offer points at the end of each day and a performance weighting in the shootout to reward being fastest throughout the rally.

If, for example, the driver in first place heading into the decider has been a tenth of a second per mile faster across the whole event than the driver in second place, then they will take that advantage multiplied by the stage distance into the shootout. So, if the final test was 10 miles, the quicker driver would start with a one-second time advantage.

A source told AUTOSPORT: "We understand there was a lot of resistance to this plan, which is why we have worked hard to evolve it and to answer a lot of the criticisms.

"This plan involves the least amount of format change for the rally organisers.

"The format will remain as it is now: a ceremonial and maybe a superspecial on Thursday night, then normal days Friday and Saturday and a shorter day on Sunday.

"There are a couple of options, but this is the one people are going for.

"It will be discussed more in the next couple of months, with probably a few more refinements made - it will then be signed-off at September World [Motorsport] Council."

SCEPTICAL TEAMS BEING WON OVER

M-Sport team principal Malcolm Wilson admitted he had been sceptical at the start, but could see the benefit now.

"It's going in the right direction now," he said. "There are some other people who have to agree with it, but I think we're getting there.

"The teams are all working on how the points would theoretically be working and how it would be affecting the championship."

Hyundai's Michel Nandan echoed those sentiments, with the caveat that WRC Promoter must have a market for what is a made-for-television spectacle.

"I think this is a good proposal, it can improve the show and make it more easy to present to television," said Nandan.

"Still, we need to do some more simulations to be done to make sure you are not giving too much to the very fast drivers.

"This can make it more attractive - we want the cars close together and fighting - and we need to know we can sell the television."

[Prisoner Monkeys]

I think the idea could work - but *only* if it is implemented properly. And for that to happen, the final-stage shootout would have to replace the Power Stage and have no impact on the overall event points.

I have no objection to awarding points at the end of each day. I think it rewards consistency without penalising drivers who are forced out, especially if the circumstances of their retirement are beyond their control. The Australian Rally Championship does exactly this without issue.

But in order for the shootout to work, it would have to be run *after* the final day's points are awarded so that it has no impact on those points. Instead, it would replace the current Power Stage format as a source of bonus points. To have it decide the final points standings undermines everything that came before it.

[I am evil Homer]

If the latest suggestion is really what WRC 2015 onwards is about - I'm done. The only 'performance weighting' that should take place is the car that crosses the last special stage with the lowest overall time wins.

That suggestion is total crap - it completely over complicates things. How will they possibly attract a bigger audience? why the obsession with easier to present on TV when the promoter and FIA can't even sort good coverage now - it's so boring to watch a highlights package, assuming one is actually broadcast on your TV channels.