Everything?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
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Everything?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
That old good Cyprus from "WRC" times was very tough and difficult, very tough but also very beautiful stages...this new Cyprus is shortest rally from all in IRC and quality of the stages isnīt also very high....there are lot of rallies in Europe with better stages, organizers, better infrastructure, better...everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
The Cyprus Rally last year looked pretty nice on the live coverage.
Azores is not so expensive if the organiser pays for the ferry. It's a beautiful event and I'm glad to see it in.
Live coverage was good indeed. Hope to see a nice pack of drivers next year.
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Are we speaking about the same event? The IRC Cyprus was an amazing rally with beautiful mixed stages like in the old days, with very special entries compared to other events (mixed with MERC) and with very nice fights.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
IRC Cyprus Rally 2011 (Cyprus) - SS3 live coverage (FullHD) - YouTube
How can anyone find such a beautiful mixed stage like this boring?
The organization pays the ferry, the trip and the stay. Expensive is for the fans. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
There is no problem only with the money, very big problem is the time... Cars are very long on the trip from garage to island and back...
I agree that the WRC version of Cyprus rally had some very slow and tough stages that would not appeal to the competitors but some stages produced some very nice and dramatic videos/photos.
But the IRC version as Mirek said is totally different. They share some stages 1 or 2 at max. Last year's live Eurosport coverage was brilliant, the mountain stages make the helicam footage very fascinating.
IRC is different, but still too expensive. Cars are heavy damaged after the race and costs with travelling to island are veeeeeeeery expensive (for same price as ferry to Cyprus you should do one czech rallysprint event with WRC car)...
I am amazed that they decided to include Sibiu and nothing in Italy. This year's Sibiu event was frankly awful to watch - all the IRC website videos (except for Mikkelsen out in front) were of dust, dust and more dust!
And why have Sibiu and Croatia instead of ohhhh I don't know.... only the Sanremo, 1000 Miglia or Targa Florio?!!! Not that I'm bad mouthing Croatia - it's just the wide roads don't seem anything like the challenge of the (relatively) narrow mountain passes of those three Italian classics.
Let's hope that this year's schedule (if it remains exactly the same as now) is just a stop gap until Eurosport and various event organisers have time to get their rallies on the ERC schedule. That having been said, if Eurosport won't include either Sanremo, 1000 Miglia or Targa this year when they are all already on the ERC or IRC schedules what hope do they have of then being included for 2014?
The one shred of hope I have is that one of them (I personally prefer Sanremo) is gearing up to replace Sardinia on the WRC schedule after 2013 - there seemed to be some uncertainty this year about whether it would remain or Targa Florio would take over and next year the date for Italy is rather conveniently a similar weekend to when TF would take place....
Rant over :p