For this events we already have "Island Rally Challenge" IRC :D
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For this events we already have "Island Rally Challenge" IRC :D
Corsica must be in, but i do not care about Cyprus and Sardinia. Bring the old San Remo back please!
GB and NZ should be in WRC as well.
Hmm, Sardinia I'm not bothered about - Italys round of the WRC should be Rallye Sanremo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Motorsportfun
Japan - to be honest, it was a bit 'mickey mouse', however with no Japanese marques in the WRC is it needed?
NZ - The best roads and stages in the WRC - madness to leave it out.
GB - Once a classic, now a pale shadow. Leaving it out for a year or two may do the event good and give the organisers a kick up the backside.
To be honest, the latests Corsica were a joke, compared to the history. Remember the 12 stages (just two per day) totals in 2005? Ahah, that was Corsica? OMG, please let stay something like that in IRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
Rally Sardinia, at least, gives every year new roads and fresh challenges to the competitors. Look at 2011, Day 1 is completely new since the last event in the WRC in 2009. Every year a lot of roads are new! Not like the next round of the calendar, or last week's event...
Btw, San Remo rally is not accepted by the towns, because there is too much population around the old stages of Tuscany and there's no enough safe roads to arrange an event on tarmac around San Remo (you know, alternative roads, media access, spectators access, etc). Too much traffic on the public roads, no many safe places for spectators (which are much more than an IRC event), small service area. And an important thing: no money from San Remo town hall and Ligury Region (think: it gives San Remo Rally an amount of 12k euros each year, twelve-thousand)!
So, forget San Remo rally. :D
I like that, very true though.........Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
I for one would love Italy to go back to San Remo. Autosport in UK (printed not online) said that 2012 WRC will be down to 11 rounds, with Finland in, Australia and NZ to alternate with NZ in 2012, Sweden with its day in Norway, Japan, and Argentina and Brazil cross border event, and a 3 Emirate, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman round at the end of the year, plus the 3 Euro ashphalt rallies of Germany, France and Spain, thats 9 so leaving the others from Greece, GB, Italy,Portugal, Jordan etc etc to fight it out. GB is further complicated as this (2011) is the final year of the current sponsorship deal, and FIA /NOS/ or Spyker Saab Bank want assurances and a long term deal.
Quiet day at the WMSC for rallying,
RALLYING
The 2012 FIA World Rally Championship calendar has been examined and will be officialised before the end of this month. It will be submitted again to the WMSC via a fax vote. The dates will be confirmed taking into account the reduction of clashes with Formula 1.
The minimum weight of the seats will be increased from 1 January 2012 in order to increase safety. There will be greater freedom on seat material. This will enable competitors to use homologated seats with carbon shells at a more reasonable cost.
From 1 January 2013 the assumed weight of the crew will be increased from 150 kg to 160 kg to reflect average weights.
source http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre...sc_080311.aspx
Here's some Googlish rumours for you: VW interested in Loeb :-) Original source is Italian Auto Sprint magazine. It's saying VW will do Dakar 2012 and start WRC programme mid-season 2012.
http://translate.google.fi/translate...%2F202803.html
Bernie seems to release the F1 calendar really late - so, he could, if he wanted, wait until the WRC dates are announced, and have as many clashes as possible. I'm not sure releasing the WRC dates so early is entirely sensible - though I can see why they do it. Unless Jean Todt brings Bernie into line, and makes sure there are no clashes.Quote:
Originally Posted by MJW
VERY well said Mirek..... IRC :D :D :hot: Island Rally Challenge.... because no more Intercontinental ....Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Hearing something similar .... selected season in 2012, full on 2013, Quesnel start to get worried....Quote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori
He could loose his star and his sponsor.... :hot: