yes it is the normal thing to do... go tell that to the failures of the WRC commission...Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
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yes it is the normal thing to do... go tell that to the failures of the WRC commission...Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
If FIA wanted maximum from rallying, they would create an interesting lower level, from which the best drivers climb to the top and to keep it interesting for the teams, FIA would make a deal with the promoter that they get certain amount of visibility each rally. Personally, I don't think it wouldn't be a bad bargain. The championship in the lower level could be more interesting than in WRC ;)
Anyway, somehow they have got it work for F1 and the minions....
How about a powerstage at the end of each leg? And live streaming, free to watch from wrc.com :)
If only...At the minute I'd be happy with split times that actually loaded up on time....
FIA need to act, and have a long term plan to act from. Today they are firefighters, and are only thinking short term.
Come with signals NOW on what they plan to use class R5 for. It is the natural choice for top model in all national and regional championships.
S2000 NA, the class they killed, only in National series.
Think about a super licence for international rally. So we avoid all gentleman drivers in a WRCar, and bad accidents due to lack of skills.
FIA:Make a plan for the next 10 years, with a review after 5 years - and stick to it! Give stability to manufacturers, teams and drivers, so they dont use a lot of money to develop or buy a car that is obsolete and worth close to zero in a couple of years!
wrc.com is so pity that Fred Flintstone will mock on it! Every time when there's a rally in the end of the world I have to go through several other sites with timezones, daylight saving/no saving winter/summer etc. In the meantime when I open formula1.com I look right and just click on the button "convert to my time" and everything is sorted up! Such small things are very important and very simple to make, but the staff prefer to moan for the money they lost from the arabs! You suck!Quote:
Originally Posted by tfp
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Originally Posted by Sulland
Then you only have the bad accidents due to little mistakes and brain farts..
DOH! Still bad accidents..
Or are Petter's accidents "good accidents" because he has more skill?
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FIA:Make a plan for the next 10 years, with a review after 5 years - and stick to it! Give stability to manufacturers, teams and drivers, so they dont use a lot of money to develop or buy a car that is obsolete and worth close to zero in a couple of years!
See the problem I have is the thinking that infects fans who are not real competitors, maybe never was,. never will be and who don't understand how vital the driver's role is..
We have many many young, usually ignorant and often very stupid "Fans" here who say "DOOOoooooooOOOD, (you must go up and down with accent like you Norsk gutter) why it's natural that the best drivers have the best cars---it's always been that way"
Idiots don't realise I lined up occasionally same time (not really against, men samma tävling, samma dag, dom var världens bäst)
and yeah those VM riders bikes were "better", but not substantially different from mine---and mine was just as quick--- and not much different from the spec---the specification---of a B-påse somewhere..
The absolute best were still say 250cc, still weighed min xx kilos, had 5 speeds (and everybody had virtually identical gear ratios), brakes, etc etc
VM hero might, and probably did have a new tire in the morning, but I probably and often did have their tire from last week with little time on it.
It was NOT a whole HIGHER and technically superior design......like is often advocated..
And often as we have seen the last 12+ years in our little duck-pond of rally USA, the "ultimate" spec cars are so expensive, only idenpendantly wealthy types can afford to purchase or lease them, so for the Blockstranas and the trust fund "underdeprived" they buy the "best" with ZERO previous experience.......
And pay their press whores to write REAMS of press inferring they are "the best in the World".
A critical element is that local guys can compare their times to therir national best, and national best compare with VM guys,
without discounting the equipment or giving up in advance.
Give manufacturers or teams too much power over any motorsport series and they will ruin it.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
Worse still, a part of that ladder used to be competitive national championships in which it was financially possible for teams to run the same machinery as could be found at the front of WRC events. Thus they attracted good drivers and public attention. I think it's no coincidence that rallying as a sport is at such a low current ebb when national championships are, to most, of no consequence.Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
Who in recent years would this have excluded?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
Nombre, oliveira, companq, villagra, barrat, pavlides, rossi and many many othersQuote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell