Yes Azerbaijan is Asia, but may well be one of those ambiguous locations that somehow gets itself in the European song contest and has football teams trying to qualify for various UEFA sanctioned events haha
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Yes Azerbaijan is Asia, but may well be one of those ambiguous locations that somehow gets itself in the European song contest and has football teams trying to qualify for various UEFA sanctioned events haha
Yeh it's a funny one. Think the top half is in Europe, bottom half Asia.
I really don't know why some are bashing Jordan rally? at least that rally proved to be hard and also the finale of Jordan rally 2010 was really epic when Ogier won by 0.2 against Latvala..
Most of you complain about the lack of audience, if 100k people or 100 people are watching this, it wont make any difference! FIA got the money from that event!
We are fans of WRC as well, same as you, but probably not in huge numbers compared to Europe, I am sure if the situation was stable at Syria things will be much better, and I really hope Jordan will host again a round in WRC in the future!
Every Rally with lot of rocks is hard :) I personally don't mind Jordan or Azerbaijan or whatsoever strange location once per calendar year. It's enough for me the promoter to do more coverage on these events as it is now, but this applies to any other Rally anyway :) .
Why not have a WRC event in Qatar or Abu Dhabi? Both already have the title sponsorship of a team each.
Do You like artificial roads built in the desert? That's what I really don't like about rallies in these countries. Rallying is not about purpose-built race tracks even if those are gravel rough ones.
Additionally even if, as in Jordan's case, the venue isn't next to a destabilised / warring state there are the security issues which caused Paris-Dakar to move continent. We have seen the F1 problems regarding sport in the Gulf. Almost certainly Abu Dhabi and Qatar would like a WRC round, BUT are they able to provide the necessary level of security in a situation totally different from a closed race track?
I've heard of a rocky gravel rally event that's in Europe actually, WRC promoter would do well to include it in the schedule. Apparently it's called 'Acropolis Rally' or something like that, it's been going for quite a few years too.
Apart from the fact that Todt isn't prepared to take a deposit in dolmas and taramasalata. I would love the Acropolis to be in the championship, clearly no one sees Greece as an important market at present. I forget who said 'money doesn't talk it swears!' but sadly the halcyon days are gone forever - unless a European breakaway championship could be established! (I can dream)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack4688`
The APRC rally in China is in Chinese terms at least in the middle of nowhere, so no wonder there are no spectators on stages. Actually seremonial start and roadsections that go through villages attract lots of people. I would imagine that given the right lcation, rallying could attract more spectators than the organizers could handleQuote:
Originally Posted by makinen_fan