Which rally should they add to the WRC-calendar?

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Originally Posted by NaBUru38

I would merge some European rallies into four-day events.

o- Monte Carlo
o- Sweden
o- Corsica-Sardinia
o- Alsace-Trier
o- Greece
o- Great Britain
o- Spain or Portugal

Then I'd do more international rallies in major motorsport regions:

o- Mexico
o- Argentina
o- Brazil
o- Japan
o- Australia / New Zealand

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

NORF???

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Wikipedia doesn't have a definition for that, so I didn't understand what you said.

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Originally Posted by NaBUru38

Wikipedia doesn't have a definition for that, so I didn't understand what you said.

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NORF = Neste Oil Rally Finland :)

More detailed rumor, after the first one I shared with you before the rally: Mexico is over IF Brazil comes in. Organisers said cant afford the management and organisation of two separate events with same people.

so for now (and my opinion and from what i understand) it looks like the calendar for next year will be:
Monte-Carlo
Sweden
Mexico/Brazil
Argentina
Portugal
Italy?
China/New Zealand
Poland
Finland
Germany?
France?
Spain
Wales
Again I didn't take it from anywhere but from what i heard and conclude from this forum. If anyone has a better pitch, please share.

There seems to be far too many dry, dusty gravel Rallies - and not enough Tarmac events. Manufacturers are in it to sell more road cars; mostly used on Tarmac roads. Time for a more even split between gravel/ Tarmac. Where is the road relevance of 5,6,7 dry, dusty gravel events? Simple, there isn't.

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

Where is the road relevance of 5,6,7 dry, dusty gravel events? Simple, there isn't.

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It would take an advertising agency all of thirty seconds to point out that if a car can win on the roughest and toughest gravel rallies, then its potential on smoother and silkier tarmac must be unrivalled.

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

There seems to be far too many dry, dusty gravel Rallies - and not enough Tarmac events. Manufacturers are in it to sell more road cars; mostly used on Tarmac roads. Time for a more even split between gravel/ Tarmac. Where is the road relevance of 5,6,7 dry, dusty gravel events? Simple, there isn't.

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At least half the rallies must be on tarmac IMO. And yes, it is silly to have 4,33 events in practically identical dusty pits when we have only 1 on snow and one on typical mud.

if the situation wasn't so bad maybe they could have add rallies instead of downsizing. I would do this calendar:
Monte-Carlo
Sweden
Norway
Mexico
Portugal
Argentina
Italy
Greece
Finland
Germany
New-Zealand/Australia(Western Australia A.K.A. Perth)
Spain
Corsica
Japan
Ireland
Wales GB

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Originally Posted by Eli

so for now (and my opinion and from what i understand) it looks like the calendar for next year will be:
Monte-Carlo
Sweden
Mexico/Brazil
Argentina
Portugal
Italy?
China/New Zealand
Poland
Finland
Germany?
France?
Spain
Wales
Again I didn't take it from anywhere but from what i heard and conclude from this forum. If anyone has a better pitch, please share.

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Manufacturers clearly said they are NOT happy to go to the actual Chinese candidate event, which is - in their opinion - too far away from biggest cities, namely Beijing and Shanghai.

France/Alsace will stay in WRC until they got money, but in the past there was some rumors from Mouton/Todt, thinking to merge the event with Germany and doing something like Sweden did with Norway.

Should be good, but there's quite a lot politics and is not easy at the moment. We'll see...

so at the end of this month we will know the calendar for next year?, i wonder when the calendar will be full of rallies as it used to be between 2004-2007 (and even 2008).