Looks like Mr Todt has started his campaign for the next FIA presidential election ... :dozey:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
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Looks like Mr Todt has started his campaign for the next FIA presidential election ... :dozey:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
Is it just me.. or is the Mini clubman, the wrong model of car for the job? It's hideous! What are the aero or torsional rigidity benefits vs marketing that make it the model of choice for the group?
I like his idea of a 12 event calender with longer rallies (13 or 14 would be fine too), but a rally like Finland should always be a sprint event so the current format works fine imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
A world championship rally in China again makes most sense to me.
Todt endorses adventure. I think that the longer rallies are best left to the Baja, Cross Country and Transworld Events people.
A Safari wrc car was engineering project additional to the standard wrc car.
Perhaps longer stages or events that did not repeat loop stages would be better for some WRC events ? The cars would only need a larger fuel tank.
I too think that 12 events is about right. Yes, WRC needs new markets, but it needs to walk before it can run. I would imagine that rotation would be needed, have no problem with that, provided that certain events always run, I;e Finland. A mix of sprint, endurance events is what is needed. So we have a mix of 2, 3, 4 day events – all different. At the moment they’re all the same – not good!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Josti
They're bull****ing all the time.. I don't know what is the function of Morrie Chandler?! And WRC is not popular as F1 so no need for more WRC rallies.. Then new manufacturers will maybe come..
Finland was a 2-day event.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyRAC
IMHO the WRC is going in the right direction, mixed events like Spain or Turkey with huge crowds (Turkey in Istanbul, 5th biggest city in the world) was awesome. Also Alsace was a big (positive) surprise. I expected much Loeb-fans, but didn't expect that amount of people in all the stages.
My ideal season would be based on 14 events (12 are not enough for a proper world calendar, but 16 like some years ago were too much):
SWEDEN (with stages in Norway)
MEXICO (or USA, like Simon Long told me... they're under negotiations)
ARGENTINA
PORTUGAL
TURKEY
ITALY (start in Rome, stages all over Sardinia, like IRC 2010)
GREECE
FINLAND
GERMANY
JAPAN
CHINA or INDIA (no both)
FRANCE-ALSACE
SPAIN
WALES GB
No Aus or NZ :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Motorsportfun
AUS or NZ is a must (especialy the later one)
Citroen are apparantley refusing to sell Solberg a DS3 unless he signs a long term deal as they think he will bugger off and tell another manufacturer all their secrets! Ford are just as bad however as they wont sell any Fiesta WRCs until 2012 at the earliest as they think their secrets will get out...