The degree of spectacularity of rally Finland is the best in the world. I don't how any other rally could do rallying more attractive to ordinary people.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeD
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The degree of spectacularity of rally Finland is the best in the world. I don't how any other rally could do rallying more attractive to ordinary people.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeD
Maybe but this years Rally Ireland proves you wrong to some degree. And the purpose of WRC is not to just get support and interest in Finland - it's to try and build it up and keep it as a world championship. So it's only fair and the right thing to do to expand the sport in other countries.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finni
From your point of view, I can fully understand why Finland should have a rally every year, but from the manufacturers point of view Finland is not a big market and perhaps not a very attractive one either. For them, Russia, Indonesia, etc are far more interesting. They will have new markets to reach via WRC results and they will have many more interesting sponsors.
There is also the whole driver issue, which I also described in another post. While it's nothing but impressive what Finland has delivered when it comes to quick rally drivers - it's at the same time a problem that very few nations occupy all the seats in our sport. You cannot build up WRC in the rest of the world if the Finns and the Norwegians occupy 60% of the seats. After all this is not a Nordic championship but a world championship. Hopefully some of these new venues will produce a couple of rally drivers from new countries.
Just for the record, I don't care about nationality, but most do, so it's important that FIA take this into consideration.
Plus there are events which the championship needs. Finland for one......Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
Without Finland..... wtf?????
How did you come to this Info?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomi
I was at the Tour de Corse 2007, as long as i remember, the news on TV and Paper in Corsika says "As we dont have a WRC in every Year, we try to start with IRC"
IMO, if you bring the WRC to a country which doesn't know anything about it, you'll end up having a lot of "idiots" watching the rally, the sort of people who can't appreciate the fact that they are at an event which is the top of the rallying world. The sort of people that will throw away an autographed rally poster once the rally is finished and forget all about it... :/ Nothing drives me up the wall more than hearing someone say stuff like, oh, I thought that Gronholm is driving for Peugeot, wait, is Seat still competing in the WRC... :x What are you doing here if you don't know anything about it.
I feel that classic events should stay and rotate other events, but I guess that this will be hard to do with them trying to reduce the number of events per season. I agree with the comment that the european WRC events not taking part should be part of the ERC for example..
The info is from J.Mahonen, member of the FIA rally comission.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blitzerflitzer
From what I see in this forum and around it, there are plenty of non WRC host counties that have major knowledge and interests in rallying and are more reliable source of rally information they your country.Quote:
Originally Posted by N
I guess you have to count the "idiots" in your country before speaking of others.
And the there is those who knows the difference of a lousy organised rally and a good one, and who like to go and spectate good ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by jparker
Why don't the Cezch's have a wrc event, they seem crazy about rally http://www.ewrc.cz/ewrc/show.php?id=7376
Can't remember to have seen any rally from Bulgaria and barely Russia
Good question!Quote:
Originally Posted by SUBARUNORWAY1