[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

I´d rather say: go back to the roots. Longer rallies, more stages, more endurance tests. Then the best cars and drivers will be shown.

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This is the only way.

Maybe only 2WD?

2WD only worked and made sens a couple of years ago with JWRC and good cars like Citroen C2 or Suzuki Swift but only as the addition to the rally. I can't imagine myself following 2WD championship, I have seen some rallies in BRC and spectators are more interested in old WRC cars (running in national championship) than 2WD. Just waste of time.

Maybe something like that

http://i42.tinypic.com/1ibyhz.jpg

or something like "Capito, are you sure you know what RALLY means ?"

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Originally Posted by HaCo

This I could agree with:
- 50% of the points for the full rally except for the last loop of stages.
- 50% of the points for the last loop of stages (at least 100km or more without full service (flex-service ok) with the endurance aspect could be interesting) to have sunday-afternoon-exciting-broadcast. Everyone can start the last loop, even after abandon in the firs 'round'. If all stages of this loop are very short the one after the other, you could change from camera from one stage to the other and reverse with splits, ... and less chance of a dead moment. It could become something very interesting with tracking, youtube live, ... and 50% of points still to win!

However, I don't understand why they look at the format if they can't even manage to broadcast 15' of review on a lot more channels!

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This looks interesting. But I think there shouldn't be Rally 2 in the first place.

I thought April Fools was last month.

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Originally Posted by Barreis

If they want show, they should put power stage as a SS 1 after qualifing. Also they should award it with 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 points. So all drivers just begin the rally and motivation for points is here.

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SS1 will be the power stage in Rallye de France this year. It will be live on TV (as all the other stages thanks to Canal Plus :D See: there actually are people interested in broadcasting rally). Too bad it's a damn super special stage on a parking lot...

So, next year in France the winner of SS1 will be the winner of the rally! Then, he just has to cruise till the end! :D Stupid FIA...

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Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira

This idea is so stupid. We (rally fans) can't aprove and permit those guys kill our sport.

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They are doing everything to kill World Rally Championship... Not only this stupid ideas with power stage, but also with other things...

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Originally Posted by tolis

So, next year in France the winner of SS1 will be the winner of the rally! Then, he just has to cruise till the end! :D Stupid FIA...

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Yeah, but on the bright side the TV audience on the PS will be doubled :D (sarcasm)

I think the most positive thing we can take from the proposal is that the organisers are at least considering the future of the sport and the need to revitalise it, even if the proposal is not the greatest in the world. Part of the problem is that we've gone from the era of Loeb's dominance and appear to be jumping straight into a new era of dominance; in this case, Ogier's. My understanding is that one of the reasons why Ford pulled their factory funding for 2013, but allowed the Fiesta to be used was because they wanted to see what the WRC was like in an era without Loeb. If their drivers could compete, then they would reconsider funding a factory team in 2014. But with Ogier and Volkswagen rising to the top straight away, I can't see that they would be willing to re-fund the team.

Personally, I think the best way forward would be to model the power stage on the Fafe Rally Sprint: run it at the end of each day, with points awarded to the top three drivers (possibly top five if more manufacturers and teams commit to the sport). Offer additional points to the driver with the fastest aggregate time.