Quote Originally Posted by the sniper View Post
So we're told the new potential audience for the WRC is young and has a short attention span, so the change that is made is the introduction of a points system that has to be studied if you have any chance of understanding it (kids love to study), when the new potential audience wouldn't even have been aware of the problem it was trying to solve...
Few study points, most of us will just accept the standings as read/told. Few hardcore fans watch Sunday's stages now. Ref Andy's point, switching off the cruising crews is no good for WRC Promoter. The problem they see is fewer eyeballs and engagement. Changing the points is a method to liven it up, thus increasing engagement. But there's more to it than this points system change why I ask this question. Sulland talks about a points system that is good for privateers' sponsors. FIA and Promoter do not give a flying fck about privateers. The idea WRC is a sport and they have duty to provide this service is detached from reality IMO.

Then there is the usual topics that perpetually crop up. According to FIA and Promoter; 10 Rally1 cars is enough. 3 Manufacturers is enough. Rally2/+ will not replace Rally1. WRC is never going to be a privateer series. All these points that are raised here with the belief the FIA doesn't know what it is doing, that going back to the past is what is really required. 'Old farts' don't make reason out of what the FIA/Promoter is doing and is trying to achieve, just moan.