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I donīt know, site only shows total number of watchers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Franky
Other question is: How many watch WRC live in TV ?
In my mind WRX is better TV-sport than WRC. (and thatīs the way I like it, I donīt want WRC to become stadion sport.)
It's not a large amount really since it's only open in the countries that don't have it on national TV. I tried to find a country to watch through with hola.org since our commentators are crap but gave up. They have 43.000 subscribers and average video views are 15.000, Eriksson's pass pulled it up with 1.3mill.Quote:
Originally Posted by Franky
So both WRC and WRX need to pour a lot of money to marketing.Quote:
Originally Posted by SubaruNorway
Strange how they don't really get much Youtube views, most of the video's don't have more views than i would have on a Norwegian championship rally. Funny enough my short Swedish Rally video from this year has passed 750.000 views...Quote:
Originally Posted by Franky
It's geoblocked.
I personally think that the amount of watched minutes compared to the number of views is the most important indicator because essentially views is the number of times the video started playing. But yes, the amount of views they have is quite low.Quote:
Originally Posted by SubaruNorway
Again, geoblocked. Most countries show World RX on TV and in those countries (like Norway for instance) you can't view the YouTube stream.
We are talking about the regular video's, the live streams are not uploaded after they are shown i think. Can't see them at least. Average time on my video's are 5-7 minutes which is decent since i usually have put all the good stuff in by then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpha
The good thing though is that Facebook seems to have loosened up on their Youtube blocking so now a video can have 5 times more reach than it did before from what i can see.
In Finland WRX is on TV, but youtube is not geoblocket, stream is available...Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpha
and you can watch that "stream" later also.
Nice, wish it was like that here also. I'd love to hear Cole and Fausts comments on Argentina.
watch it on burningwhee1s.blogspot.comQuote:
Originally Posted by Alpha
(yes, better not post this link on facebook and twitter cuz... u'know... they dont want these sites to be around. But you can find pretty much every racing series there)
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/mo...otorsport-push
Would one of those be PSRX?Quote:
Choi said World Rallycross was of particular interest and that certain rallycross teams had already approached Hyundai Motorsport about the prospect of running i20s.
Magda Andersson and Anton Marklund to do EuroRX next season for Marklund Motorsport.
Nice to see Magda step up.
But, what does this mean for the VW Team Sweden, if anything? I thought the team was a combination of Marklund Motorsport and VW team Sweden in 2016? Frees up a WorldRX spot in a competitive car. In the WRC exit talk, VW mentioned increased (GRC at least) rallycross support. There's somehting in here somewhere.
http://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/ar...ed-for-euro-rx
As far as I know, Kristoffersson Motorsport (the other part of Team Sweden) tries everything to stay in World RX. There are ongoing talks with VW in Hannover. But it may be that Johan Kristoffersson will move to another team and his dadīs team will do something else (Euro RX, RX Nordic, STCC...?).
Aha, thank you for the update. I hope they can sort something out, real talent.Quote:
Originally Posted by JUF
Tanner Foust for that 2nd seat would be great move...Quote:
Originally Posted by tomhlord
Agree, would bring some money to the team through Rockstar and also just seems like an all round nice bloke.Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
Will be interesting to see Magda in a supercar, she's been pretty quick in touring cars for someone so young but reckon EuroRX will be a bit more of a challenge.
Petter to Hoonigan???
https://twitter.com/AndreasBakkerud/...74450795134981
Some rumors on Facebook this week about Petter and Bertel O Steen, more specifically the A-class AMG. Would be good to have yet another manufacturer in the championship.
Not sure about Hoonigan, think Petter would rather be his own boss than to work for Ken. They do have a good relationship though, and Ken as team boss and Petter & Bakkerud on the track would be a fierce combination.
Do they have a rallycross track at Silverstone?? Because if they don't, it'll end up awful like all the Global Rallycross tracks are. Lydden hill is a fantastic track, makes me a bit sad.
When it was first rumoured, it was obvious what would happen. The 'old school' RX circuits were out, and the 'shiny new' F1 tracks would be the venues of choice for IMG. Sod the old fans of the sport - they want the new fans, who drink RedBull, Monster, etc and follow the sport in the modern way.
I'm not sure WorldRX is yet big enough for all these sudden changes...but, those in charge think they know best - but quite often it all come crashing down after a few successful years. As there's no support structure in place.
Sad but inevitable.
Any guesses what areas of the circuit they will use? Maybe something on the land alongside where Bridge corner used to be - and using the Luffield corners?
The whole point of these GP venues is that they incorporate the track to quite a large extent.
They should go to Brands Hatch instead..Quote:
Originally Posted by Sal the 2nd
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I suspect Brands were either not interested, or didn't want to pay what IMG wanted....but Brands would be a great venue for RX. Silverstone is flat, and a poor watching circuit.
World Rallycross really is the new WRC, selling its soul for the 'benefit of fans', doing things no one asked for or wants...
As for the circuit, according to Autosport:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report...rstone-from-18Quote:
While IMG did not release any further details, Autosport understands that a new purpose-built track will be created in the F1 layout's infield, based around the existing Stowe circuit.
The cars will be based in The Wing pits complex, and then will file out onto the Stowe circuit, which will be run in a clockwise direction rather than its usual anti-clockwise configuration.
I think I'll have to make the journey down to Lydden for this year's round, it's the end of an era... I was going to go this year but ended up going to Monaco that weekend instead. Silverstone is much easier to get to for me than Lydden, but I don't really have any interest in seeing WRX in the Silverstone setting.
Andreas bakkerud is doing Sigdalsrally (first round in National championship) next weekend in Anders Grøndals rental fiesta R2t.
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Lydden is a historic track, good fun and great for spectators.
But the 2016 event organisation was a shambles. There are other reasons for this move, I am convinced.
Whatever happened about that clown son of the owners of Lydden and his potential legal troubles?Quote:
Originally Posted by tomhlord
I'm not sure about that, but I was more referring to the troubling organisation at the event itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
Pat Doran dispels closure fears after losing FIA World Rallycross:
We are going to concentrate now on the British Rallycross Championship and we have got lots of other things going on like truck and classic car shows I am confident the circuit will continue.
The 57-year-old, who has owned the Wootton track for seven years, applied to Dover District Council in 2015 to build a new entrance, grandstands and hospitality centre.
But planning permission has yet to be gained, which Mr Doran thinks was the main factor in the decision of world championship promoters IMG to move the event to Silverstone."
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbu...-close-118267/
It would be easier to work on the logistics of running Lydden well than it will be to make Silverstone a good track...but I guess that wouldn't fit with the money making scheme. IMG are being a bit shortsighted if they continue down this route of removing all classic tracks. Barcelona, Hockenheim etc. just don't have the atmosphere or quality of Estering, Holjes, Hell, Loheac & Lydden etc. Wasn't going to go to Lydden this year as wanted to check out Nurburgring 24h, however think I'll have to watch the rallycross as I don't think I'll be bothering much once it moves to Silverstone. Call me crazy but I like being within 500m of the track when I watch motorsport ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by tomhlord
So Petter and Johan Kristoffersson in a VW factory team according to Aftonbladet (not the most reliable source though).
http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportblade...ar-fabriksstod
Norwegian paper:
https://translate.google.com/transla...%2F23894355%2F
Good for Petter. Hard work pays off. Will be interested to see how "factory" the team is in terms of branding etc.
Quotes from Sven Smeets in Motorsport News say Petter will run the team, with VW works providing technical support and engineering the car. Financing/sponsorship is done by Petter (PSRX) and Volkswagen Sweden. So a big collaboration.
It really sounds like VW had no desire to get out of motorsport in the wake of the emissions scandal.
Works WRX team and still fighting to get the Polo WRC onto the stages.
I get a completely different impression.
This sounds like a VW customer operation, plain and simple. Petter (Monster and others) and Johan (VW Sweden) are hiring VW Motorsport to provide them with services and advice.
Isn't that the precise definition of a customer motorsport programme as VW said they would move in to?
Time for Johan to smash it and show Petter how it's done.
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
Yep, sounds like that to me. Basically Petter has added his funding to the VW Sweden team. Will be interesting to see how it goes, I'm not convinced that the Polo has been on the same level as the EKSRX Audi, the 208 or even the Focus.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
PSRX has proven that they can build a winning car so with support from VW (something he never had from Citroën), and even more funding from VW Sweden he has a better starting point than ever before. I'm certain he'll be competitive from round one.
Good (and surprising!) news!
Also, F-X Demaison is involved in building the car. He and Petter go way back and he's great so now I'm even more positive.
Base car will be Polo WRC17, so almost nothing same than PoloRX what they have been using past years.