Calendar 2009/2010

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Just make sure no one tampers with your luggage :p

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Just my camera gear and a back pack. not much :p wasted a lot of energy when in japan so for get it lol :p

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Originally Posted by A.F.F.

I think you stand pretty much alone with Cyprus. I personally hate it, if one can hate a rally. I don't think it's among the classic by any standard. It's rather new rally so it lack the tradition, it's not fast so it's not spectacular and it's a car-wrecker so it's more lottery than pure rallying. :mark: I'm not sure but I think many share this view.

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There is a whole lot of people visiting Cyprus during the rally combining the event with tourism (short distances, great hotel facilities and food), so definitely he is not alone. Plus I enjoy unpredictable rallies.

I don´ t want to make this a pro-cyprus thread. For sure there are better events for different criteria of which event is good/classic or should have a place in the WRC. The problem is that nobody even FIA ever made clear which are the criteria for having or not an event in the WRC.

I like the rotation idea, but I do think that FIA should have kept the 3 of the classics every year (Monte, Tour De Corse and NORF).

I am mostly surprised by the rally in Bulgaria, but in general these new venues will help the sport grow in more countries than the traditionel ones.

Well done FIA!

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Originally Posted by MikeD

I like the rotation idea, but I do think that FIA should have kept the 3 of the classics every year (Monte, Tour De Corse and NORF).

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It was not FIA who wanted to drop Monte and tour the corse, the local federations dont want to run the events every year because of economical lost.

I also like the rotation idea. At last something happens in wrc and there are here people who start to nag concerning the classic rallys!
My opinion, we don´t need each year the same classics.
Oke if your favorite rally is not in the list is not nice. About the rotation, it´s good for the sport.
The best and incinerating rallys were this year, Norway and Ireland! Where we did not see the dominate top two winning all the time.
How often people say the last years that the wrc becomes annoying?
I would say, go take a look once somewhere else. I like to see somethimes another rally. I like to see rallys where almost nobody has experience.
Nowadays you can travel cheap and in a couple hour you are somewhere els in Europe.

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Originally Posted by Tomi

It was not FIA who wanted to drop Monte and tour the corse, the local federations dont want to run the events every year because of economical lost.

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Ok, thanks for the info. If that's the case then I can't find anything negative to say about the rotation system, and I think FIA has reacted to needed demand.

...and I think Brother John pretty much covers what i also think.

12 round calender is good, and the new event should get a shot at least once. But removing some of the classic event completely from the calender is very bad idea. In my opinion, Monte, Sweden, Finland, Wales GB, Greece, Tour de Corse, and New Zealand should always be on the calender.

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Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1

Just my camera gear and a back pack. not much :p wasted a lot of energy when in japan so for get it lol :p

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No I mean make sure no one puts something in your surf board bag if you know what I mean. *cough* *cough* *schapelle corby!* *cough*

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Originally Posted by MikeD

Ok, thanks for the info. If that's the case then I can't find anything negative to say about the rotation system, and I think FIA has reacted to needed demand.

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But there are events that would not like to rotate, how is that then reacted by this calendar? Why all has to rotate because of some?

Personally I don't believe these calendars will hold and there will be changes to these but only time will tell if my feeling is right.

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Originally Posted by DonJippo

But there are events that would not like to rotate, how is that then reacted by this calendar? Why all has to rotate because of some?

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I think it's because there are so many applicants, and because both WRC and FIA wants the sport to expand. You might miss NORF every second year, but our sport will get more fans around the world and better sponsor posibilities.