Quote Originally Posted by Watson View Post
Well, endurance racing is actually realtively easy to produce TV production for. The reason is simply that eventhough the Nordschleife and Circuit de la Sarthe (or any other) are very long, the cars always stay in the same place. So you can just place the cameras and leave them there. I always watch those races cause they're interesting and the live broadcast at least in Europe is very good and extensive.

With the WRC or any rally series for that matter the problem is that you'd need loads more cameras and staff to do much live broadcasting.

Of course this is completely not true. The Tour de France and other cycling races travel 200 km a day and they only have fixed cameras at the stage end. Yet every day they manage to make a compelling 6 hour broadcast that is watched by millions. They also have a service park that is equal in size and grandeur to a WRC park, that they build up and demolish every single day without problem.

Rallying is nothing like circuitracing and should never be compared with it. Mahonen Capito and all the others, all they do is look at rally and find how it compares unfavorably with circuit racing. And of course they find millions of things wrong with rallying, because rallying is nothing like circuitracing.

Imagine if the boss of the NBA orders that all the players should now start kicking the ball with their feet. Because you know, football is bigger worldwide than basketball so the sports should be more alike. Completely ridiculous of course, yet this is precisely what current rally bosses are doing.

*end of rant*