2016 News and Results

[EightGear]

Off course WRC2 is much better than the ERC...... it is the world championship. It is better to be fouth or fifth in the WRC2 than to be first in the ERC

Don't kid yourself.

[Mirek]

Off course WRC2 is much better than the ERC...... it is the world championship. It is better to be fouth or fifth in the WRC2 than to be first in the ERC

I can tell You one thing.... when You win Ypres a crowd of thousands will celebrate Your victory on the packed square under the fireworks and the celebration of Your victory will take whole night. When You win WRC2 You just drive over the finish ramp as nobody really cares about somebody who finished 15th overall.

Same goes to media attention. When Škoda was winning rallies in IRC/ERC our media were full of it. In 2015 You can't find an article saything they won something in WRC. You can just find that "Prokop finished 8th, Kopecký 12th". And that's all. Tell me what is good about that?

WRC2 is good for someone who wants to step in WRC or wants to drive WRC events because it is WORLD rally championship. Still the public or media recognition of WRC2 winners is close to zero. For manufacturer PR it's just wasted money.

[Jarek Z]

Off course WRC2 is much better than the ERC...... it is the world championship. It is better to be fouth or fifth in the WRC2 than to be first in the ERC

Maciej Oleksowicz was 5th in WRC2/SWRC in 2012. Everybody forgot about it on the next day.
http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc-2/results/...86-256---.html

[mousti]

Off course WRC2 is much better than the ERC...... it is the world championship. It is better to be fouth or fifth in the WRC2 than to be first in the ERC

No not for me though, only thing it's interesting for youngsters to learn the WRC stages in a quite competitive atmosphere with a 4wd car. Nobody cares about Pons being a world champion or Breen or ... .... ...

[Jarek Z]

Because they all fancy themselves as a WRC champion, however unreasonably.

Same reason so many young circuit racers pay fortunes for GP2 and GP3 rather than get paid for big sportscar races.

In one way, it's good; the talent is concentrated and we'll get a proper 'world' championship. The shame is the damage that could be done to the wider sport and the prestige of classic events.

Thanks for your reply. I know what you mean. But I still don't understand it. It cannot be true that Armin Kremer (47 years old), Jourdan Serderidis (51 years old), Jean-Michel Raoux (44 years old) or Lambros Athanassoulas (39 years old), who entered WRC2 on this year's Monte, see themselves as future world rally champions

I don't know how much weed they would have to smoke to believe it

But still - good luck to all of them!

[Jarek Z]

Nobody cares about Pons being a world champion or Breen or ... .... ...

... or the 51-year-old Jourdan Serderidis!

[WUff1]

Off course WRC2 is much better than the ERC...... it is the world championship. It is better to be fouth or fifth in the WRC2 than to be first in the ERC

That´s bullshit.

[N.O.T]

Off course WRC2 is much better than the ERC...... it is the world championship. It is better to be fouth or fifth in the WRC2 than to be first in the ERC

both WRC2 and ERC are nothing, they are the laughing stock of rallying full of nobodies and neverbeens.

[RS]

both WRC2 and ERC are nothing, they are the laughing stock of rallying full of nobodies and neverbeens.

Where do you think the next talents are going to come from?

[stefanvv]

Where do you think the next talents are going to come from?

Just a guess - FFSA. But they appear like Halley's Comet - every 75-76 years.....