[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

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Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira

Colin Clark twitter

3 car teams for 2017. My predictions. @Petter_Solberg @GronholmM will win rallies. Maybe even Marko and Tommi. Portugal will be interesting

@planetemarcus @Petter_Solberg @GronholmM they will be in demand next year

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Colin should stop smoking whatever he is smoking.

And stop drinking what ever he's drinking!

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Originally Posted by EightGear

Colin should stop smoking whatever he is smoking.

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Agreed. He's got to be taking the piss surely.

There are more than enough capable drivers around without having to go searching the retirement homes.

Colin should get rid of that addiction to pink things to start with. And maybe try to think before posting.

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Originally Posted by stefanvv

So, what are they promoting? The sport or artificial competition (well, "competition" term is quite over estimated)? I know "everybody must be happy" = socialism/communism, is the best social order in theory, but we all know already it doesn't work in practice.

BTW, I wonder how much 2017 cars will devaluate this problem. I think there will be in some degree, but how much I guess we just have to wait and see.

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In terms of interest of the championship there not much to argue against the rule.

With the rule we had 3 differente winners on the last 3 rallyes. Without the rule we would had 3 more rallyes won by Ogier.

There's not much to discuss about how the rule is good to the interest of the championship

In the rally of Portugal i talked with a lot of people form the WRC about that, and no one (except Capito, Ogier and some ) said that the rule is bad to the WRC. Even the old ones as Ari Vatanen who said the WRC needs new winners e new fights to be interesting.

No one said that purely in sport matters the rule is fair, but a balance is needed, and what we have is better than Ogier winning all the rallyes. Not perfect, but better.

It's inevitable that someone try to level up a bit the situation. But these rules have gone too far.
Bring back 2014. Ogier didn't won every rally back then, we were all happy.

And don't forget that the last 4-5 rallys are good for the driver who open the road, which makes things even worse.

The current rule of championship leader running first car for the first two days needs changing. Just get it back to championship leader running 1st car on the opening day and be done with it. Personally don't like the qualifying stage (although it's probably the fairest way) as I don't think it should be part of rallying

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Championship leader runs 1st on day one. Day 2 and 3, rally order. That is proper rallying and how it should be.

The current rule is to make the championship seem more interesting, but we all know that Ogier should win every really.

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Originally Posted by Doon

Day 2 and 3, rally order.

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Hmm no. I have bad memories about this.