These are 2019 numbers... And yes, this seems to be what it takes to get WRC Promotional event status
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Paying those sums has been an investment for taking the event towards WRC status. Also, getting the WRC teams there must have brought a lot of more spectators and media coverage.
If that's €260k shared between all four manufactures, that actually seems like a reasonable price. Surely it cost each manufacturer far more than €50k to take part. The promoters fee seems like very poor value, if none of that money was passed on to the manufacturers.
The main issue is the long term damage. WRC promoter needs reliable organizers in countries that are good for marketing. Especially with the recent wave of cancelled or semi-cancelled rallies.
Right now WRC event in Estonia doesn't look like either of those.
As far as i know, in 2016 they ended up with a decent minus. So they decided not to organize it anymore. In 2017 they found some new inspiration to think big and their main goal became to bring WRC rally to Estonia, so they orginized it again in 2018 and as wrc promotional event in 2019.
Here is the official statement https://www.rallyestonia.com/en/spec...tor-urmo-aava/
What I have learned is that the Estonian Autosport Union board is shocked that the event got cancelled and they are having a meeting in the beginning of next week to find a solution that there would still be a international rally (hopefully held by Aava and co). As most of the board have rally background they feel that they have screwed up (a bit) and they didn't believe it would go so far. Also the rally fans are fuming and giving all kinds of shit to them. Aava says that the decision is final and there would be no RE or anything similar held by them.
https://sport.err.ee/1058565/oleg-gr...s-kaasa-aitama
- EAL required to show budget and show all finances which was declined by Aava & Co
- after all these years of support he requires an apology from Aava and then he is willing to support the rally
- believes RE problems of finding budget
- has promised multiple times to help, also lobby the EAL board to remove the 100 000 € fee (buy they needed to see finances and budget)
Etc etc
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Just went to shop to grab some popcorn because today Rally Estonia (Urmo Aava) and Estonian Autosport Union (Oleg Gross) will sit down together and give an interview. Hopefully will get fireworks and of course some answers to the accusations from each side. Going to be interesting!
Basically nothing new.. Gross don't/can't understand why the rally is cancelled and is now ready to sit down again, to hold the rally.. Aava said that, he don't want to do worse rally than last year.. and as they have organised many years, they know by their experiences that if they start to rush now, the result will be like a local rally..
It ended somehow like that
Gross/EAL feat. Justin Bieber - Sorry
Quote:
Yeah, I know that I let you down
Is it too late to say I'm sorry now?
Ooh, ooh
I'll take every single piece of the blame if you want me to
But you know that there is no innocent one in this game for two
I'll go, I'll go and then you go, you go out and spill the truth
Can we both say the words and forget this?
They would also have an issue this year with the Safari being run at the same weekend where RE was last year.
Better a "regional" rally than no rally at all.
Plus it would be a good way to promote Estonian national events as such as well.
The timing of it is ... not understandable. Even if the borders will be open for international travel, then people (fans) won't start traveling before they can feel certain that the virus is done and dusted. While there's any question that it might be unsafe, majority of people won't travel.
I cant seem to find any logic behind this.
They are talking about running a rally without spectators.
https://dirtfish.com/rally/estonias-...ng-july-rally/
Now Estonian Autosport Union is planning to run a corona safe rally two weeks before Rally Finland. And the backup date is the same as Rally Finland
https://sport.postimees.ee/6982168/urmo ... b-endiselt
Peamise sõnumina andis Aava teada, et tema meeskond pole korraldamisest loobunud ning unistus WRC-etapp Eestisse tuua elab endiselt.
Rally Estonia on bränd, mida maailmas lisaks heale korraldusele teatakse ka kui ägedat sündmust, kus saab lisaks spordile ka meelt lahutada ehk tuled ja viled on selle brändi osa. Töö 2021. aasta ralli osas käib. Aava on oma tiimiga leidnud uusi põnevaid teid, arvestades WRC-meeskondade tagasisidet ja soovi korraldada MM-ralli.
Once you calm down, can you tell us in English what's going on?
Basically nothing really new or mindbreaking.. Aava said that he and his team haven't buried down the idea of doing WRC event and they are working on 2021 rally. The brand of Rally Estonia is known not only about rallying, but also about all the show and enterteintment that comes along.
They have also found some new ways/ideas with WRC teams according to the event..
Well.. let's see how the whole thing goes on this year all over the world, but tbh I would even love to see some random testing
What about Viru Rally? Is it really going to run on beginning of July?
Yup, It's gonna run. Organisers are hoping some top names (read Ott)
what the hell, this came out of nowhere https://dirtfish.com/rally/dirtfish-...uSEoCGFqrca5io
DirtFish and World Rally Champion Ott Tänak have joined forces to back the Estonian Autosport Union’s July event.