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27th September 2017, 09:26 #241
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Rally Turkey will be organised by TOSFED. Thought I would check out the TOSFED website and discovered the last round of Turkish Rally Championship was postponed due to a lack of entries. Meanwhile in NZ it was announced today we have 80 entries for next round of our National Champs.
http://www.tosfed.org.tr/haberler/42...kros-ertelendi
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27th September 2017, 13:49 #242
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27th September 2017, 13:55 #243
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27th September 2017, 14:09 #244
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@N.O.T, from what I heard everything was there to get the event on the calendar. A few months ago it seemed to be a done deal... It seems like FIA is not interested as long as Australia is on the calendar, claiming the logistic costs for the teams would be too big. I know you like to get rid of your frustrations on this forum, but calling people "little butthurt babies" isn't really appropriate and missing the point this time. It's hard to be not frustrated when you see NZ being denied a chance, while an event that's both unproven and unpopular is chosen to be on the calendar next year. It happened with China already, now again with Turkey...
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27th September 2017, 15:15 #245
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Well the point is Turkey is far more lucrative as a market than NZ... the roads in turkey are sh it compared to those in NZ and as a rally tukrey has nothing to offer more than NZ... but the manufacturers are doing this to sell cars not to drive on beautiful roads.
So they will keep choosing events based on marketing instead of other useless reasons like village entries and beautiful roads and scenery...
life is like that nowadays, it does not matter if you agree or not.
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27th September 2017, 17:22 #246
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27th September 2017, 18:05 #247
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Turkey has some really nice places so the scenery shouldn't be a problem - I really liked the feeling of the event when it was part of the calender. More worrying is the political climate. But I guess it's a place where manus want to promote their brand and sell cars - and it's a huge country.
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27th September 2017, 19:40 #248
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Would the "ideal" schedule be MC, Swe, Portugal, Safari, Corse, Acropolis, NZ, Arg, Finland, NZ, SanRemo, D'Ivoire, RACC & GB?
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27th September 2017, 20:37 #249
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27th September 2017, 22:57 #250
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TBH I dont get why some places have anti-cut devices when other identical kind of places allow huge cutting and the throwing of dirt all over the road.
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