No night stages and seemingly no Myherin, not happy!!
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No night stages and seemingly no Myherin, not happy!!
Which TV station? I'm aware of usually 2 live stages from ERC but never seen anything live from WRC for yeras.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
BT Sport in the UK.
Gutted that the night stages have been dropped, seemingly solely to appease the new powers that be. There was a great atmosphere on Gwydyr where I and (coincidentally) Mintexmemory were last year. Plus, hopefully it's just that article that omits Myherin, but I won't hold my breath...
I think the organisers of WRC events need to stand up to the Promoters, and tell them they are getting it wrong. Night stages are part of Rallying. Making RallyGB an even more compact event is a mistake.
What about the rest of the world? How can a rally fan get (legal) access to BT Sport on free TV lets say in Brazil, Mexico or Russia? This is what teams complain about, they get nothing in return for investment in WRC. "Promoter" dictates conditions to organizers just to broadcast Power Stage in local TV as if it was local/national rally. They have no clue about promoting WRC and FIA can even organize rally on the Moon on Mars, it doesn't make any difference to the public access world wide to live TV or proper/legal streaming. ERC, F1, WTCC to name just few are from different ligue comparing to WRC, on freeview TV it doesn't exist, .Quote:
Originally Posted by the sniper
Where about in the world are you from? I'm amazed that there's anywhere where the ERC and WTCC are considered to be on the same level as F1! I can only speak for the UK, but here the ERC and WTCC are far more obscure then even the WRC, which itself is nowadays widely unknown... Eurosport is a fairly niche channel in the UK, even when Andy Priaulx was winning the WTCC title numerous times it was completely ignored by the UK media and public. Even as a hardcore motorsport fan I consider the WTCC to be cheap filler programming for Eurosport. And maybe British Eurosport doesn't feature as much of the ERC as the European version, but I've seen very little ERC coverage on there this year, whereas in the IRC days would couldn't miss the coverage if you watched Eurosport on an IRC weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfun
But this is all rather off topic...
I think Eurosport have done Live from only about 3 events so far this year. It's been incredibly low profile.Quote:
Originally Posted by the sniper
Shame.. best bits gone (the night stages), worst kept (Chirk spectator stage).. :(
Looks a lot like an old BRC Vauxhall Rally of Wales.... But a full WRC event??? Er, not really....
Sadly, the organisers hands are tied by the Promoters.