Wrc+

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Originally Posted by AnttiL

Once again I have inside information

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Be that may, you should be sinbinned for saying that here and not sharing.

Coverage was great as far as I saw.

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Originally Posted by rallyfiend

Should they be cut some slack? Because they're having to work in Kenya?

It's literally their companies decision that they're in Kenya.....

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No. WRC Promoter decides the calendar. NEP Finland does the production.

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Originally Posted by AnttiL

No. WRC Promoter decides the calendar. NEP Finland does the production.

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They have a WMSC meeting this Friday concerning the calendar for next year right?

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Originally Posted by Eli

They have a WMSC meeting this Friday concerning the calendar for next year right?

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Yeah, FIA is of course in the game as well.

One thing I dont get is when they say on comms that someone has stopped in a stage but they 'dont know why'.

Surely they can see the live pictures from the car and if its crashed or just stopped with a mechanical or puncture ?

To me it seems that the commentators dont actually see anything more than us. It's the producer(s) who have multiple screens with all the cameras and stuff. But yes, I dont get it either, why they can't switch view to the stopped car...

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Originally Posted by DoN_cz

To me it seems that the commentators dont actually see anything more than us. It's the producer(s) who have multiple screens with all the cameras and stuff. But yes, I dont get it either, why they can't switch view to the stopped car...

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Except for Julian Porter who has heard (didn't say from who) that Tänak's contract is up at the end of the year.

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Originally Posted by DoN_cz

To me it seems that the commentators dont actually see anything more than us. It's the producer(s) who have multiple screens with all the cameras and stuff. But yes, I dont get it either, why they can't switch view to the stopped car...

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This. They basically just watch the footage and talk over it. Not sure if they can even interact with the director who is in London(?) and the commentators at the service park.

Sometimes the stopped car is in another section of the stage, out of reach of the transmitter.

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Originally Posted by AnttiL

This. They basically just watch the footage and talk over it. Not sure if they can even interact with the director who is in London(?) and the commentators at the service park.

Sometimes the stopped car is in another section of the stage, out of reach of the transmitter.

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That is it, I think. They can't communicate normally with the Producer.
During this rally I noticed something that I hadn't before. Becs would give some coded instructions to the Producer. Eg. "It would be good if we could see/know what problem Ogier has." Often she would repeat the same sentence and 'poof' the screen would magically switch to Ogier's car.....or sometimes not !

Sometimes the commentators have a good question they could ask the driver, but they can't seem to communicate with the stage-end interviewer to tell her/him to ask that question. Yeah, WRC+ is weird sometimes. Like they lack proper communication between the various parties involved.

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Originally Posted by AnttiL

Once again I have inside information from the WRC+ team and I've heard it was not easy to work in Kenya, so we should cut them some slack for a bit of gremlins while most of the action was covered with no problems.

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But AnttiL, Kenya is a perfect country populated by perfect people, they repeat that every other sentence and have the drivers confirm it every other sentence as well. Kenya is literally the gold standard of civilization and to suggest it's a ""hard"" environment to work in must be phobic in *some* way or other