Future Rally Media Coverage

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by SlowSon

Dont hurry to judge before the case is clarified. There's a rumour that Eurosport wanted to take all the authority over the arrangement of the calendar, especially dropping traditional events for a fistful of dollars more from India Brazil Bangladesh etc. while FIA didnt agree and decided to protect the sport. Lets wait and see, long-term plans are more important than missing footage from few events.

---

WRC promoters shouldn't be allowed to decide sport issues like calendar settlement, rallies profiles or cars technical regulations. These should be FIA matters, decided with WRC organizers, manufactureurs and teams/drivers.

The promoter job it's to promote the WRC package, not to arrange it acording to his intere$$$$t...

Why cant the FIA tell the few remaining fans of this great sport exactly what is going on, surely it is the least we deserve?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Rally Power

WRC promoters shouldn't be allowed to decide sport issues like calendar settlement, rallies profiles or cars technical regulations. These should be FIA matters, decided with WRC organizers, manufactureurs and teams/drivers.

The promoter job it's to promote the WRC package, not to arrange it acording to his intere$$$$t...

---

Completely disagree.

F1 is the success it is because the commercial rights were fully given to the Promoter.

The ability to add or remove good/poor events from the calendar should be decided on more than political expediency towards whoever happens to be a member of the World Motor Sport Council at the time.

Tech stuff, fine, no problem.

FIA cannot say directly, that they want to kill WRC...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by PLuto

FIA cannot say directly, that they want to kill WRC...

---

It does seem that way :(

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by PLuto

FIA cannot say directly, that they want to kill WRC...

---

Hate to say it but you could be right. It would appear that f1 must be protected at all costs from rival series even within the fia family

They are killing WRC systematically last ten years...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by rallyfiend

Completely disagree.

F1 is the success it is because the commercial rights were fully given to the Promoter.

The ability to add or remove good/poor events from the calendar should be decided on more than political expediency towards whoever happens to be a member of the World Motor Sport Council at the time.

Tech stuff, fine, no problem.

---

I understand your pragmatic example, but F1 itsn't a sport, it's a hight tech vanity fair!
That's why Mr. Ecclestone rejects european grand prix, the F1 sport essence, and has put the circus on the petrodollars route.

Instead of F1 we can talk about the global sucess of football, managed by keeping the sport faithfull to his nature.

Even evolving, WRC should keep the traditional issues, like iconic rallies, multisurface routes or long stage formats over marketing flamboyant expedients.

Shame really..... but rallying never dies. I don't see how WRC could be a threat to F1? It never has been and never will.

You're absolutely correct Rally Power. The sporting matters (Calendar, Technical & sporting rules) must remain under the control of the sport whilst the promoters role is to promote and raise the profile of the championship ... working within the parameters set by the sport.
Anything less and we create a circus that would no longer resemble the sport as we know it.