[WRC] News & Rumours (part V) 2017

[GigiGalliNo1]

Yes! Turkey!

[tommeke_B]

I've watched a few onboards from the Marmaris Rally, if the rally is held there I'm not really thinking of going there. The stages look quite useless for spectating. Very slow, technical, no view at all. Hope they come up with some better stages for the actual WRC event.

[aykutbilir]

I've watched a few onboards from the Marmaris Rally, if the rally is held there I'm not really thinking of going there. The stages look quite useless for spectating. Very slow, technical, no view at all. Hope they come up with some better stages for the actual WRC event.

They will change the route for sure
Last year Marmaris was really sh*t

This years one will give us an idea for WRC for sure!


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[skarderud]

Of political reasons turkey should not be a part of any championship.

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[steve.mandzij]

Of political reasons turkey should not be a part of any championship.

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[JUF]

Of political reasons turkey should not be a part of any championship.

Exactly. It's rather ironic to leave Poland for security reasons and move to a country where people are imprisoned without any reason...

[Rrysio]

Exactly. It's rather ironic to leave Poland for security reasons and move to a country where people are imprisoned without any reason...

Security reasons for dropping Poland is only a pretext (or rather the symptom of the underlying root cause) - the real reason is money (as usual).
The money WRC promoter demands from WRC event organizers is significant. Polish Automobile and Motorcycle Federation (PZM) is too poor to afford it (in my opinion it is also heavily incompetent and inefficient in bringing sponsors to remedy the lack of money).

The result is cost saving - unfortunately PZM tries to cut the costs by impacting security. Blaming spectators in Poland is a bullsh*t - event organizers' responsibility is to make sure that it controls thousands of people (including these who don't know how to behave during special stage). It is true that Rally Poland organizer failed miserably on that front. And FIA doesn't help blaming spectators and not the organizer - PZM feels good after such FIA statement and probably won't do anything to improve.

There are issues with spectators on every rally - sometimes even with fatal results (Monte). I can show you a number of pictures and videos with spectators in very dangerous places during Rally Deutschland (plus police car on a SS route). But nobody says that these rallies should be removed from the calendar. Clear example of hypocrisy and double standards.

And Turkey? They just paid the money WRC promoter wanted - so they are in the calendar. Political prisoners? Who cares when the budget is balanced...

[GigiGalliNo1]

Will the fans or international media be effected by any political issues in a country?

I don't think so.

Are we traveling to Spain, via Barcelona in October if not flying a budget airline as some might question why I wrote that city? Yes. Terror incident occurs, should we all cancel our trips and rally there?

No.

Move on.

Turkey pays, has sponsors, has support for a rally - let them play.

Shame NZ can't bring more $$$$ to the table

[Tarmop]

You can`t compare terror attacks, which sadly take place pretty much everywhere to official country politics (in addition to terror).

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Exactly. It's rather ironic to leave Poland for security reasons and move to a country where people are imprisoned without any reason...

Poland left out for security reasons ? No. It was safety reasons.

Imagine if a car hit a group of stupidly placed spectators and kills them, the impact this could have on the WRC and rally as a whole...

Poland had to go.