Wrc+

[typhoon]

Can we also talk about Team Radios? I was watching a couple of stages live and having the team radio saying their stage times is not what I was expecting. Hopefully from Sweden on we'll have some more spicy conversation with the teams HQ...

[PLuto]

Can we also talk about Team Radios? I was watching a couple of stages live and having the team radio saying their stage times is not what I was expecting. Hopefully from Sweden on we'll have some more spicy conversation with the teams HQ...

I dont believe this can work in same way like in formula 1 or cycling...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

I dont believe this can work in same way like in formula 1 or cycling...

I agree. Broadcasting important live radio info from the Teams to drivers wont be acceptable to them. Like in F1 it would have to be delayed.

[Kras]

I agree. Broadcasting important live radio info from the Teams to drivers wont be acceptable to them. Like in F1 it would have to be delayed.

Th whole stream should be delayed. We already have a problem of later starters stream sniping to see road conditions

[Franky]

Delaying a stream long enough will make the whole thing useless for the potential audience. Do people want to watch sports live or on repeat?

[Morte66]

In the words of the great philosophers Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "You can't always get what you want, babe".

[denkimi]

Th whole stream should be delayed. We already have a problem of later starters stream sniping to see road conditions
We could simply make it illegal for crews to watch wrc+ during the rally.

But then again, maybe it actually makes things more equal, since those starting later can rely less on their gravel notes crew.

[PLuto]

We could simply make it illegal for crews to watch wrc+ during the rally.

How? I am curious...

[Backa]

Th whole stream should be delayed. We already have a problem of later starters stream sniping to see road conditions

Delaying stream for everybody just for that seems like overkill. Personally I would like to see reversing Rally1 grid after mid-day regroup to equalize a little advantages and disadvantages of grid position.

[rallyfiend]

Wouldn’t the potentially put the same guy cleaning the road in the morning cleaning the road again?!

[deephouse]

https://www.svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/listening-in-from-hearing-private-conversations-to-seeing-ghost-cars-what-fia-world-rally-championship-has-planned-for-fans-this-season/

Interesting read regarding commanding centre. They want to bring "ghost car" to the live service. What they don't tell when actual command centre will be visible to the audience.

[PLuto]

I think they should try to focus to know, what is currently happening on the stages, when they are running...

[SubaruNorway]

What's the support mail? Need to complain about the insanely loud sound when broadcast is not live

[Krigen]

Why do take 10 minutes brake and dont show rally 2 ?

[Krigen]

And now we get another introduction to rally Sweden, wrc calendar and recap of the rally so far when the stage is live.

[deephouse]

Seems i got crystal ball correct. LiveTV service being even worse than previous years. And we pay for that.

[Katvala]

The stream has been crashing or freezing constantly for me this rally

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[deephouse]

The stream has been crashing or freezing constantly for me this rally

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Welcome to the club, I got this problems, since Monte 2024. Oh and every second crash, I got logged out for some reason. Annoying as hell. Bad service, nothing else to say, but sadly we don't have other choice to follow WRC.

I just notice that on 18th feb to 19th feb they will perform maintenance on that site. I just hope they will fix those issues, because it's about time.

[svarci]

What's the support mail? Need to complain about the insanely loud sound when broadcast is not live

Yes, they need to fix this, this is insane... :/

Did you find the mail address?

[ShiftyLV]

I wish there was the option to disable commentators during the live stages. I just can't stand the constant praising(deserved and undeserved) of everyone. It's like they are best friends with them and scared to criticize them. I'd much rather listen to cars and codrivers even if I can't understand most of them. Brynildsen is the only one worth listening to...

[Eli]

Welcome to the club, I got this problems, since Monte 2024. Oh and every second crash, I got logged out for some reason. Annoying as hell. Bad service, nothing else to say, but sadly we don't have other choice to follow WRC.

I just notice that on 18th feb to 19th feb they will perform maintenance on that site. I just hope they will fix those issues, because it's about time.

But hey, at least we can hear Rally Radio….also it’s only been two years since he joined full time, but I can’t stand hearing Mike Chen anymore, his voice is annoying as hell and it’s not as if he has anything to add to “recap everything that just happened as if we’re still in radio Becksy”… no chance of this promoter changing I guess…

[Katvala]

I wish there was the option to disable commentators during the live stages. I just can't stand the constant praising(deserved and undeserved) of everyone. It's like they are best friends with them and scared to criticize them. I'd much rather listen to cars and codrivers even if I can't understand most of them. Brynildsen is the only one worth listening to...They brought this feature in after it was requested by people. Then they removed it and it seems unlikely for it to return

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[Sulland]

The stream has been crashing or freezing constantly for me this rally

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This time has been crystal clear from thursday till powerstage, no lag or anything. Take stream from app on iphone and transmit to a samsung tv.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

But hey, at least we can hear Rally Radio….also it’s only two years since he joined full time, but I can’t stand hearing Mike Chen anymore, his voice is annoying as hell as it’s not as if he has anything to add to “recap everything that just happened as if we’re still in radio Becksy”… no chance of this promoter changing I guess…

This.

The worst thing to ever happen in sports commentary is to have two of them, leading to constant talking.

STFU and let us hear the cars !

[Morte66]

This.

The worst thing to ever happen in sports commentary is to have two of them, leading to constant talking.

STFU and let us hear the cars !

Yep. So many times this weekend I thought "god, will you just shut up".

I guess if they did shut up, somebody might notice it's better without them, and then they'd be out of a job.

[typhoon]

I dont believe this can work in same way like in formula 1 or cycling...



I agree. Broadcasting important live radio info from the Teams to drivers wont be acceptable to them. Like in F1 it would have to be delayed.

Improving Team Radios doesn't automatically means that they need to spoil tactics and stuff. But come on, Jarmo's congrats to Elfyn were enthusiast as a tax officer. On this side, WRC promoter can "suggest" teams and drivers to have some more colourful comments on their team radios.

Since there's not much manufacturers and there's no new on sight in the near future, it would be great to build some "characters" to the broader audience, which can compensate the lack of competition (which is exactly what F1 did when Mercedes was taking basically everything!) on a media perspective.

[Eli]

Improving Team Radios it doesn't automatically means that they need to spoil tactics and stuff. But come on, Jarmo's congrats to Elfyn were enthusiast as a tax officer. On this side, WRC promoter can "suggest" teams and drivers to have some more colourful comments on their team radios.

Since there's not much manufacturers and there's no new on sight in the near future, it would be great to build some "characters" to the broader audience, which can compensate the lack of competition (which is exactly what F1 did when Mercedes was taking basically everything!) on a media perspective.

Before any of that, I'd suggest replacing the whole WRC TV Livecrew team...I'm sorry, they're there since 2005? 2006? and have only gotten worse over the years....it's enough you hear Paul King back in 2007, or even in 2011, or hell, even 2019 which was his last year doing the highlights alongside Jon Desborough and you'd see the decline...Becks Williams, I think enough has been said about her...the only thing I might do there is bring her back as a radio only (no tv) option...otherwise.... and don't get me started on Kiri Bloore...

[typhoon]

Before any of that, I'd suggest replacing the whole WRC TV Livecrew team...I'm sorry, they're there since 2005? 2006? and have only gotten worse over the years....it's enough you hear Paul King back in 2007, or even in 2011, or hell, even 2019 which was his last year doing the highlights alongside Jon Desborough and you'd see the decline...Becks Williams, I think enough has been said about her...the only thing I might do there is bring her back as a radio only (no tv) option...otherwise.... and don't get me started on Kiri Bloore...

I'd also replace Becs (...) and Chen (good only for an after-show on YT with Kiri lmao) with Paul King and Julian Porter, as for the other stage commentary I'd look around to other young guys I had to listen for other championships.

I don't understand why WRC Promoter is not looking at some of the guys they're streaming motorsport on Twitch etc.
GT World Challenge took for their multilingual streams people from there and they're hell good!

As for the Team Radio again, this can be easily fixed with a meeting from WRC Promoter in which there's some tips to bring out their character. Imagine Sesks quoting memes and stuff with his engineer, would be super entertaining for the audience!

[Katvala]

This.

The worst thing to ever happen in sports commentary is to have two of them, leading to constant talking.

STFU and let us hear the cars !

I liked Mike Chen a lot when he joined. Something different than hearing the same people every rally. Recently it has started bugging me. It's the constant talking, but also the constant repetition of the same things. They get so lost in the talking that they even miss out on stuff happening on screen or just barely make a quick note of it.

The quality improves tenfold when there are guest commentators, preferably current/former drivers/co-drivers. Not only can they bring to the table more relevant information, but they also tend to speak less.

They went way overboard on the power stage especially, I get exhausted listening to it. I don't want to listen without commentators, I just want them to....slow down, relax a bit. Don't try to maximise words per minute

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[Eli]

I liked Mike Chen a lot when he joined. Something different than hearing the same people every rally. Recently it has started bugging me. It's the constant talking, but also the constant repetition of the same things. They get so lost in the talking that they even miss out on stuff happening on screen or just barely make a quick note of it.

The quality improves tenfold when there are guest commentators, preferably current/former drivers/co-drivers. Not only can they bring to the table more relevant information, but they also tend to speak less.

They went way overboard on the power stage especially, I get exhausted listening to it. I don't want to listen without commentators, I just want them to....slow down, relax a bit. Don't try to maximise words per minute

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As the saying goes, sometimes it’s good to shut up…

[saco0o]

is radio rally open or just for wrc+ subs?
couldnt find here. just following the youtube highlights this year, since theres no more redbultv half hour videos

[Fast Eddie WRC]

is radio rally open or just for wrc+ subs?
couldnt find here. just following the youtube highlights this year, since theres no more redbultv half hour videos

There is no rally radio, it was a joke against Mike Chen's commentary-style of talking too much.

[saco0o]

There is no rally radio, it was a joke against Mike Chen's commentary-style of talking too much.

jeeeez am I that disconected? =[
i mean...but i can swear I used to listen to ERC on an online 'radio' thing. i also remember hearing becky on this format. got excited here reading about radio again haha dammit

[satnav]

Jeeeeez you better not swear, you'll maybe get a fine or banned or something lol

[Fast Eddie WRC]

A lot of us would like a kind of rally radio back again.

An audio-only stream of WRC+ could be provided easily and given free, but wont as they want fans to subscribe.

[SubaruNorway]

I gave up looking, where have they put the onboard section?

And no casting...

[rallyfiend]

I gave up looking, where have they put the onboard section?

And no casting...

I was just watching some on-boards on the website about an hour ago. They're all there as usual

[DoN_cz]

yes, great update.

https://opu.peklo.biz/p/25/02/21/1740120911-62680.jpg

[SubaruNorway]

I was just watching some on-boards on the website about an hour ago. They're all there as usual

On the app, very usefull out on an event

[EstWRC]

yes, great update.

https://opu.peklo.biz/p/25/02/21/1740120911-62680.jpg

LOL. Really? I haven’t used app for a year or even more

[Fast Eddie WRC]

In the UK the WRC+ stream is shown on various of TNT Sport's 4 linear channels.

However Eurosport 1& 2 are closing next week in the UK and their content will be moved onto TNT Sport (whose owners own both).

I'm worried that all the extra live sport from Tennis, Cycling, Snooker etc will push out WRC+ and be put on Discovery streaming or TNT interactive and so be unrecordable.

[traxx]

https://www.svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/listening-in-from-hearing-private-conversations-to-seeing-ghost-cars-what-fia-world-rally-championship-has-planned-for-fans-this-season/

Interesting read regarding commanding centre. They want to bring "ghost car" to the live service. What they don't tell when actual command centre will be visible to the audience.

Everything is so slow.... This command center was a promise for this year and there is nothing except some usless radio comms saying what is the crew time....
The ghost car is now a promise for next year.... Every year, it's for next year....

[SubaruNorway]

Why did they put music over most of the highlights program...

[rallyfiend]

Everything is so slow.... This command center was a promise for this year and there is nothing except some usless radio comms saying what is the crew time....
The ghost car is now a promise for next year.... Every year, it's for next year....

I wonder all if these promises not being delivered have anything to do with the rumoured sale of the company?

Nothing has been heard about this in a while, but you can imagine that new projects might be stalled while that takes place...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

In the UK the WRC+ stream is shown on various of TNT Sport's 4 linear channels.

However Eurosport 1& 2 are closing next week in the UK and their content will be moved onto TNT Sport (whose owners own both).

I'm worried that all the extra live sport from Tennis, Cycling, Snooker etc will push out WRC+ and be put on Discovery streaming or TNT interactive and so be unrecordable.

Good news for UK fans of WRC !

All stages of the WRC Safari Rally Kenya are being shown live across the 4 TNT Sports linear channels this weekend. Despite the extra live action from Eurosport being moved to TNT, none of the WRC+ stream has been shunted onto the red button, even on Saturday. :)

[erikli2]

Anyone else missing the cast-button in the app?

[drive]

on live TV they show sometimes Live maps, so they have it, only its hidden from us, subscribers... lets complane everyone to their support email!!!!

[Doon]

Since the app update the Rally TV app doesn’t work on my TV or Firestick, apparently they’ve remove the option to chromecast too. Signed up and paid through Google and it didn’t recognise my username. Paid again through apple.

It’s never worked this badly. Is the company skint or something?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Live map link .. thanks to Linni :)

https://webapps2.wrc.com/2020/web/live/live.html

[cancan]

Doesn't work on fire for me neither.
Nice - after paying a subscription, lets mess up the service, mid year, during a rally....

[realtimati]

Works well for me on Fire TV, installed the app just last night.

[Eli]

What the hell?? I open up my smart Samsung TV, open the rally tv app only to find out it’s not supported, thanks WRC promoter, you really outdid yourself this time…

[deephouse]

Philips TV with Android. Newly installed app... Can't change language (default setting is spanish). Also even more confusing interface. You really need to search for content. I predicted in Crystal ball thread, that it will work worse. Oh, and also, crashing & complete log out isn't fixed. I saw also that ERC and WorldRX section is gone. So we get way less, again. Kudos.

[Eli]

Philips TV with Android. Newly installed app... Can't change language (default setting is spanish). Also even more confusing interface. You really need to search for content. I predicted in Crystal ball thread, that it will work worse. Oh, and also, crashing & complete log out isn't fixed. I saw also that ERC and WorldRX section is gone. So we get way less, again. Kudos.

Honestly we should boycott them & all of us subscribers should unsubscribe…maybe then they’ll realise….f***ing hell….what a bunch of amateurs, them and their beloved uninterrupted, won’t shut up for a minute commentators.…

[satnav]

I had paid for the year but as the app now doesn't work on my Samsung TV I have started a dispute with them for a not as sold item as i paid with Paypal. They have not replied to two emails from Paypal so i will keep you informed how i get on.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

I'm so glad I get the RallyTV stream on TNT Sport (via Sky) and dont have to bother with or pay for the App.

[deephouse]

I pay on monthly basis, it's cheaper (you can get many 2 events in that one month time scale). Also because I don't always have time to watch it, so I don't pay for specific events. But right now or this year probably will watch it for entire year, since we could have only memories in the future, so I will try to enjoy it despite very bad service, while it lasts (I mean whole WRC, not just RallyTV thing).

[Eli]

Has anyone here looked at the archived highlights footage?? These morons (pardon my french) left out all the daily highlights for each and every rally, and only left the Full-Event Higlights.....I think this is one of the only motorsport where the coverage keeps searching for the bottom of the barrel....honestly what a piece of s***....I don't want the sport to die or the championship to die, but boy do I wanna see this current promoter go bankrupt....Honestly....garbage on fire...no wonder Hyundai wanna quit...even if it's "just" 80 million euros a year....I would be embarssed if that's the level of so called promotion a brand is getting...

[satnav]

I had paid for the year but as the app now doesn't work on my Samsung TV I have started a dispute with them for a not as sold item as i paid with Paypal. They have not replied to two emails from Paypal so i will keep you informed how i get on.

Update, i got a refund from Paypal today, they stated that as the WRC Promotor GmbH had not replied to emails to gather information about the problem they had decided in my favour.

[SubaruNorway]

Anyone heard anything about the casting option?
From my phone i need to use smart view when i have a new enough TV available (not at home) and casting the tab on Mac gets really bad quality after some minutes

[erikli2]

Anyone heard anything about the casting option?
From my phone i need to use smart view when i have a new enough TV available (not at home) and casting the tab on Mac gets really bad quality after some minutes

Nope, just sent (another) support request to them regarding the missing cast-function. At least my Android TV-app works now.

[erikli2]

Nope, just sent (another) support request to them regarding the missing cast-function. At least my Android TV-app works now.

Update:

"Hi Erik,

We apologize for the ongoing issue. Currently, Chromecast or any casting feature is not supported on the Rally.TV app. We are aware of the demand for this feature and are actively working on adding Chromecast support, which is expected to be available by July 2025."

[typhoon]

https://rallyitaliasardegna.com/2025/03/29/here-is-dust-to-dusk-the-docu-series-unveiling-the-behind-the-scenes-of-rally-italia-sardegna/?lang=en

Italy organizers unveiled a new behind-the-scene docu-series about the Rally Italia Sardegna.

[DoN_cz]

By the way, those replies from support are most likely just AI/chatbots replying.

I sent them a simplle question "Where can I find the live tracking maps/GPS positions of the crews?" and the reply was that they don't understand what I mean.