Take into consideration this was comments from the Chinese Motorsport Body stating cancellation of the Beijing Rally as a Whole!
But again, wait for the FIA...
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Take into consideration this was comments from the Chinese Motorsport Body stating cancellation of the Beijing Rally as a Whole!
But again, wait for the FIA...
WRC Rally China officially Cancelled
Press Release
WRC Rally China 2016 cancelled due to weather damage
Munich, August 16 2016 – The FIA and WRC Promoter have received a formal request to cancel next month’s Rally China (8 - 11 September), round 10 of the 2016 FIA World Rally Championship.
The Federation of Automobile and Motorcycle Sports of China (CAMF) and event organiser Le Sports cited heavy damage to the route caused by torrential storms and flooding last month in the region around Huairou, near Beijing, where the rally was to be staged.
Despite a last minute visit to China last week by representatives from the FIA and WRC Promoter, and the best efforts by all concerned, it was said to be impossible to affect the necessary repairs for the event to run safely.
According to CAMF and Le Sports the adverse weather left sections of the route to be used as special stages requiring major repair work which the region’s Road Administration Authority confirmed could not be completed before reconnaissance for the rally was due to start.
Some of the worst floods in China for many years forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes in the north of the country, prompting authorities to introduce emergency measures in the region, which continue.
The rally will not be replaced in this year’s FIA World Rally Championship, which will now comprise 13 rounds.
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its all mintexmemory's fault!:p
Mintexmemory! Hope you booked refundable hotels and car rental etc!
Tip to all.
Most credit card companies have insurance so please contact them!
Airlines will hold the amount you paid for your ticket as 'Credit' to use on another trip.
Possibly hotel booking agent websites too!
It’s a shame, and we shouldn’t be speculating about the Chinese lack of interest on WRC or making dubious suggestions for the rally cancelation. Those floods were a real calamity. It’s quite understandable that repairing rally roads isn’t the main priority for local authorities. Best wishes for all the affected people by the floods. Hope to see China back on next year calendar.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inp...091831354.html
Thank you for the Al Jazeera story. I didn't know to that effect!
Also to note, Chinese media have posted more details on why the WRC round was cancelled compared to what the FIA released and Autosport have written!
Could be a first with media in China, telling more to the story then normal! Or at all!
You clearly don't have a clue of what you are talking about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
AL14
It's true what Fast Eddie has said!
The two underaged kids agree with each other AL so i guess you are wrong this time.
Why would I as I wasn't going anyway? # do try to follow the debate!Quote:
Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
Educate yourselves.
Even the floods that damaged the roads in China can be traced back to corruption...
http://qz.com/725468/chinas-devastat...-overbuilding/
I bet if you keep digging you’ll find out that monsoon rains are also due to the Chinese corrupted society...Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Honestly Eddie, it takes a lot of nerve to call the others what we are! Maybe you didn’t realized yet, but it was ‘us’, the good old and civilized westerns, that through history took human’s corrupted nature into a never ending highest level (currently under the form of savage capitalism), and managed to export it to the rest of the world, even when it wasn’t asked!
So, please stop offending the Chinese people, especially those who, like us, gladly share this forum because of a common passion: the rallysport.
Things become far better when you are through with puberty, so be patient.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Don't forget to blame human population growth exhaling all the CO2 helping the global warming.
So why do thy have the flooding in England that we see on TV on a regular basis?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
corruption.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mk2 RS2000
but they eat dogs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
Korean eat dogs. Chinese eat children. Get your facts straight.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
Chinese eat dogs as well as kittens, i do not care about children.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
http://i.imgur.com/GmxS8IZ.jpg
poor kittens, eaten because of corruption... it's not fair.
Sorry, I thought this was Mintexmemory but he was just quoting you in the post.Quote:
Originally Posted by CWJ
Did you get your refund CWJ?
So out of 3 times China was in WRC it got canceled 2 times...
(in 2000 China was replaced by Cyprus)
if only the ERC could contribute Cyprus to the WRC...and make it ready in time...Quote:
Originally Posted by moto99
No. Nothing. But since all is paid even the visa I think about going now for sightseeing and some stage recce.Quote:
Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
Okay, excuse the delay as the rally cancellation caused a big disruption to my travel plans and I was offline for a while. I am actually in China and I was supposed to begin constructing the service park today with the Chinese officials.
While there is a lot of China bashing going on here and that the Chinese do not give a damn, that is not true. For the local competitors, they have been building up to this for a long time and were keen to put on a great show for the world. The CAMF, the organising body is also under incredible pressure to perform well from the local competitors. Who by the way are not just the average man in the street but more likely wealthy business people which powerful influence within China.
As such, the local media has savaged the Rally China organisers just as much as the international media has. There have been TV interviews, print and web articles all being critical of the way this matter was handled.
Now to play devil's advocate too, the FIA and the WRC Promoter has to shoulder some of the blame too. The Chinese proposed the event to be held in Zhangye, Gansu but the FIA/WRC refused and insisted on it being held in Beijing. This effectively tied one hand behind the back of the local officials, because of the lack of gravel roads forcing it to be a fly-away tarmac event, lack of support from the local government who were not enthusiastic about the demands needed for hosting the event and even lack of support from local competitors who did not like it as a Chinese Rally Championship round. Imagine if all the European rounds of the WRC had to be hosted in their national capital, it does not take a genius to understand that would not make for a great event, thus we have Rally Poland in a tiny village hours away from Warsaw, despite the marketing disadvantage. China was never given this luxury.
Add to all of this, the weather and road damage, which also forced the cancellation of several European football teams to cancel pre-season tours in China too. My train from the APRC in Zhangye was affected by the rain damage, being rerouted and rescheduled, despite being on the opposite side of the country and the damage being already a month old.
Now, I am about to head back to Hong Kong and fly back to Australia, two weeks earlier than scheduled but that is how life goes. For those still intending to head to China despite the cancellation, the De An Motorsport team will be hosting a mid-season test day on September 11 instead of Rally Beijing, with the Prodrive built S6 VW Golf.
Rally China is unlikely to make the WRC calendar in 2017.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/126820
Seems the 'damaged roads' wasnt the reason for 2016's cancellation, but an excuse as I suspected.
The manufacturers, french especially, wanted an event in China more than the Chinese did. It was lucky the weather provided an excuse that allowed a saving of face.
Phew!! So Rally Oz can go back to September and NZ (or Turkey) could take the previous Rally France weekend, vacated by th move to AprilQuote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
No VW no China