WRC Calendar 2023

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Originally Posted by CWJ

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…in two weeks there is the famous 3 – städte rallye in the same region (GER – CZ – AUT) and maybe they will use some stages of the planned wrc event. I don’t know if this is already some kind of candidate event.

Please move Safari to April ;)

What about the Azores? :cool:

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Originally Posted by CWJ

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Saudi Arabia. Ffs. If it happens, I really hope the championship is decided before that.

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Originally Posted by J4MIE

Please move Safari to April ;)

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Won't happen as it is middle of the rainy season... Some of the stages and access roads become rivers then.

So to summarize, we're losing Catalunya, Belgium, New-Zealand to bring back Chile, Mexico, Central Europe and add Saudi Arabia....good luck to all involved, wonder what they'll do there, a prologue to Dakar 2024? Would easily swap it out to keep New-Zealand for another year (with longer itinerary).

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Originally Posted by Eli

So to summarize, we're losing Catalunya, Belgium, New-Zealand to bring back Chile, Mexico, Central Europe and add Saudi Arabia....good luck to all involved, wonder what they'll do there, a prologue to Dakar 2024? Would easily swap it out to keep New-Zealand for another year (with longer itinerary).

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Assuming it goes ahead, and I'll also try to stop mentioning it once I've said this, if Saudi turns out be a minnie-mouse imitation monza-in-the-desert-in-the-middle-of-an-industrial-estate, I will cancel my subscription. There are some stunning regions with beautiful black ribbons ripe for everything that rallying should be about. What of this is actually usable for a rally, whether it's accessible and if there's enough of it in one area, I just don't know. But given they have a rally-raid championship and Dakar, only a handful of asphalt hillclimbs, drags, drifts and autotests; and whatever they create will be new and ideally a sustainable event to develop the national industry, asphalt has to be the goal for me.

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Originally Posted by WRCStan

Assuming it goes ahead, and I'll also try to stop mentioning it once I've said this, if Saudi turns out be a minnie-mouse imitation monza-in-the-desert-in-the-middle-of-an-industrial-estate, I will cancel my subscription. There are some stunning regions with beautiful black ribbons ripe for everything that rallying should be about. What of this is actually usable for a rally, whether it's accessible and if there's enough of it in one area, I just don't know. But given they have a rally-raid championship and Dakar, only a handful of asphalt hillclimbs, drags, drifts and autotests; and whatever they create will be new and ideally a sustainable event to develop the national industry, asphalt has to be the goal for me.

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I bet it will be a "desert" style event.

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Originally Posted by Eli

So to summarize, we're losing Catalunya, Belgium, New-Zealand to bring back Chile, Mexico, Central Europe and add Saudi Arabia....good luck to all involved, wonder what they'll do there, a prologue to Dakar 2024? Would easily swap it out to keep New-Zealand for another year (with longer itinerary).

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So 3 events where the sport is really popular - yeah, lets drop them from the calendar. Typical WRC.......

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

So 3 events where the sport is really popular - yeah, lets drop them from the calendar. Typical WRC.......

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I would say Chile and Czech are also countries where rally is popular. But it's not a popularity contest, money talks.