[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

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Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

...sadly the halcyon days are gone forever - unless a European breakaway championship could be established! (I can dream)

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Erm you mean the ERC? :D

We can always hope that the ERC gets stronger and stronger. I watched this year mainly for the attraction of seeing Tour de Corse and Sanremo. I was disappointed with Sanremo, it's not like I remember it when it was a WRC round, but still next year the championship will feature Tour de Corse, Acropolis, Circuit of Ireland, Rally Estonia, Rallye du Valais & Jannerrallye just to name a few I love to watch or am looking forward to seeing for the first time.

What events does the WRC feature that will attract fans like me to watch it on TV? Rallye Monte Carlo, Rally Finland and errr I guess Sweden and GB are still interesting to watch...

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Originally Posted by Jack4688`

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Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

...sadly the halcyon days are gone forever - unless a European breakaway championship could be established! (I can dream)

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Erm you mean the ERC? :D

We can always hope that the ERC gets stronger and stronger. I watched this year mainly for the attraction of seeing Tour de Corse and Sanremo. I was disappointed with Sanremo, it's not like I remember it when it was a WRC round, but still next year the championship will feature Tour de Corse, Acropolis, Circuit of Ireland, Rally Estonia, Rallye du Valais & Jannerrallye just to name a few I love to watch or am looking forward to seeing for the first time.

What events does the WRC feature that will attract fans like me to watch it on TV? Rallye Monte Carlo, Rally Finland and errr I guess Sweden and GB are still interesting to watch...

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Not the current ERC with its limited appeal to team, something more like the old ERC with the variable coeff rallies. Don't forget Ypres ;)

400 rallies a season and variable coefficient points is NOT easy to follow. Especially for simpletons like me with a shot attention span! But not so short that I prefer Rallycross I might add...

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Originally Posted by COD

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 handle

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The onboard of Gill I watched led through several villages (half of the stage was on asphalt road in populated area) and the only man I saw in whole length of the stage was somebody building a house next to the road. No spectator and no marshal from start to finish anywhere...

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Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

Not the current ERC with its limited appeal to team, something more like the old ERC with the variable coeff rallies. Don't forget Ypres ;)

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You really want the coefficients and dozens of counted rallies back? Please not! We need to reduce the existing one to 10 or even 8 events, not to enlarge it to 50 where no direct competitors would ever meet!

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Originally Posted by Mirek

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Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

Not the current ERC with its limited appeal to team, something more like the old ERC with the variable coeff rallies. Don't forget Ypres ;)

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You really want the coefficients and dozens of counted rallies back? Please not! We need to reduce the existing one to 10 or even 8 events, not to enlarge it to 50 where no direct competitors would ever meet!

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No not dozens - 20 European Rallies. the top 8 being coeff 10, 4 being coeff 6 amd 8 being coeff 3. Only best 10 results to count but unclassified unless you compete in at least 10. I think that would address your concerns and prevent the farce we've had in WRC2 and WRC3

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Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

No not dozens - 20 European Rallies. the top 8 being coeff 10, 4 being coeff 6 amd 8 being coeff 3. Only best 10 results to count but unclassified unless you compete in at least 10. I think that would address your concerns and prevent the farce we've had in WRC2 and WRC3

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It's clear that you haven't followed ERC for a very long time. I don't remember in last ten years a single season where more than one or two crews would do ten events in a year. That is utopia in ERC and it was proven again and again that it doesn't work. People who have money for such program drive in WRC. For example this year only one ERC driver did more than 9 events, only two did more than 8 and only 4 more than 6!!!

And I dont know anybody who liked old system with coefficients (except FIA who has liked it because they earn more money from organisers).

And actual system for WRC2 is not good too. Main rivals Robert Kubica and Abdullaziz Al Kuwari almost didnt meet directly during the season...

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