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Originally Posted by AnttiL

I don't think there's a problem with the people in the first place, but the style of commentary they use. And then we can ask whether that's their personal decision or something that has been ordered from above. Remember how Colin Clark said he wanted to go to Dirtfish to be more free to voice his opinions. Maybe this very polite, void of jargon style of commentary is asked by the WRC Promoter? Me as a rally geek would prefer a more analytic style, more rally professionalism, and that's what I get when there is a driver co-commentating.

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As far as I know Colin was basically kicked out of WRC+.

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As somebody already said, a lot of the people involved have been there since the ISC/North One era - so approx 20 years. And it shows....it's stale, tired and needs a massive refresh. One wonders just how much input Red Bull have; watch any of their output (MTB World Cup, Hard Enduro, etc) and it's far better than what we're seeing in the WRC. I do think there are far too many previous era (North One) people involved in the coverage.

If anyone else is bothered with this:

I sent an email to wrc + support about Rally winner: Kalle Rovanperä (f.ex) being displayed on top of stage selection in all live.

This has ruined many rallies for me now. I often don't have time to watch live, but watch a stage or 5 when I can and perhaps finish watching a rally a week later. I want to see all the stages still and am able to keep spoilers away, except this one. Knowing the winner already takes the excitement away and I then don't bother watching..

Would appreciate if anyone else could send a mail about this too! Maybe they can remove this if enough ask for it

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I doubt they read the emails. Or to be honest, I believe they read them and they ignore them. They just do not care.

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Originally Posted by bomber21

I doubt they read the emails. Or to be honest, I believe they read them and they ignore them. They just do not care.

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We'll see! They've listened to things in the past. Definitely not going to sit back continuing to be annoyed by this without at least trying to ask about this first

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

As somebody already said, a lot of the people involved have been there since the ISC/North One era - so approx 20 years. And it shows....it's stale, tired and needs a massive refresh. One wonders just how much input Red Bull have; watch any of their output (MTB World Cup, Hard Enduro, etc) and it's far better than what we're seeing in the WRC. I do think there are far too many previous era (North One) people involved in the coverage.

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The only problem is if they did a big refresh they would probably make it even worse and alienate the existing (older) fans with some annoying young trendy types.

In what way is the Red Bull coverage of other sports better ?

The Flying Finns documentary made by YLE in Finland is now available on WRC+ with English subtitles. It was shown on YLE during the week of Rally Finland and I think it's a really nice modern documentary about Finnish rallying. Not going through every bit of history in chronological order, but taking interesting topics and drivers and focusing on them in depth. And with lots of nice archive footage.

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Originally Posted by cali

As far as I know Colin was basically kicked out of WRC+.

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He was not. There were issues at the time with budgets for all staff, from camera men to commentators, to producers and the like.

He received a better offer else where and moved on.

Re Becs Williams... it is a bit weird that this Male-dominated sport (competitor-wise) has had a female main commentator all this time (and one who has zero experience of driving or co-driving). Other sports dont even do this now, even in this 2022 woke, PC, maximum equality era.

Moving her on would be the biggest and simplest re-fresh WRC+ could do.

We can always debate and discuss level of professionalism of the commentator but gender does not make any difference.