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Mission: Hungarian Rally Championship 2021
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Mission: Hungarian Rally Championship 2021
Sure, his logo on bonnet and side.
Yes, it's Luky :)
https://www.fiaerc.com/why-its-bring...kyanuk-in-erc/
Looks like more support from Citroen, but surprisingly not Total.
Yes, if you compare it with his car from last year, Total is gone:
https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s...y-Lukyanuk.jpg
2019 ERC Champion Chris Ingram finally has a drive (in WRC3) ..
https://www.fiaerc.com/erc-champion-...news-says-ley/
Luyanuk:
I’m really excited to announce that we keep working together with the Citroen Racing. Thanks for support and for the opportunities. Last year we achieved massive result, reached a milestone, taking a victory in the FIA European Rally Championship. So, we continue! Thanks to our sponsors – to Pirelli and Sainteloc Racing, to Coolstream, to Hortex, to our partners, supporting us – Ekover, Space travel, AutoSportMedia agency.
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I’m looking forward to restart, and I’m happy to see the calendar, including all eight events, as it was before. It should be an exciting year! I believe, there will be a very strong competition this time. We’ve heard some rumours about the very strong drivers, getting ready to start in the FIA European Rally Championship. We’ll try to be as competitive as possible and have fun there.
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We’re really anxious to start racing!
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In the next ten days the government of the Azores will take a decision regarding Azores Rally 2021.
Bonato and Boulloud in C3 Rally2 of CHL Sport Auto.
This was confirmed before, I think - https://www.fiaerc.com/erc-star-bona...ng-initiative/Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
Another driver for ERC is Roland Poom - https://www.fiaerc.com/boom-its-poom...oen-c3-rally2/
Azores Rallye is canceled.
Like last year...
Azores Rallye postponed - https://www.fiaerc.com/new-date-for-...er-discussion/
Like last year...
Shame - the first ERC rally victim of the Covid 3rd wave that is striking Europe.
Dirtfish on the situation:
https://dirtfish.com/rally/erc/ercs-...oritys-request
After doing a good job with the calendar last year it’s frustrating that the ERC season won’t start until June. Let’s hope all remaining events happen and we have a busy second half of the year.
Polish driver Miko Marczyk stays in ERC for another season. He's going to compete in all 8 rounds with Skoda Fabia Rally2. More details about it can be found here:
https://www.fiaerc.com/why-orlen-bac...season-in-erc/
New livery can be seen here:
https://pl.motorsport.com/erc/news/m...ropie/6272231/
Rally du Auga wants to be part of the ERC. Quite interesting who could lose the place.
https://rallydaauga.com/el-rally-da-...eo-de-rallyes/
Probably to replace Azores. It could be a double header in the North of the Peninsula. Fafe and Santiago
You could be right. I am afraid that Azores time in ERC is close to the end. Auga could be an addition but we have plenty of nice rallies in Europe so giving Spain two out of eight rounds it's not fair. And replacement for Azores is Fafe. On the other hand if it's nice rally with good organization, the exact location does not really matter.
Well, Portugal had two rallies. The Azores was postponed but a friend that works in the Regional Health Organization in there says that probably will be canceled.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! ;)
Very good news from Spain! Real Federación Espanola de Automovilismo is going to support as many as 6 crews this year!
Efren Llarena and Nil Solans are going to compete in ERC. Josep Bassas and Alejandro Cachon are going to compete in ERC3 and Junior ERC.
Moreover, Pepe Lopez and Jan Solans are going to compete in WRC3. Rallye Team Spain is going to be very strong this year!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1GasZJW...jpg&name=small
source:
https://twitter.com/RallyeTeamSpain/...i%2F6506688%2F
Llarena changing to a Fabia it seems.
Yes, It was announced already at the end of April...Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
Update in ERC calendar with new dates for Azores and Fafe - https://www.fiaerc.com/ercs-double-h...-fafe-rallies/
According to DirtFish WRC Promoter will takeover ERC. Let's hope it will be only change of brand. If they are gonna to replace people - for example from media team - it will be great loss.
WRC promoter is RedBull media... they just signed World Rallycross and now this... Not a big fan of this monopolyQuote:
Originally Posted by Tom K
but to be honest ERC needs a restart....it must be under professional hands, if you look at the calendar, WRC has already 4 races and ERC didn´t even start the season, due to that, many teams already switch from original plan to do ERC into WRC2/3Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom K
I would not judge that way. Last year ERC had two events (Rome in July and Liepaja in August) after lockdown and WRC restarted in September. WRC run 7 out of 13 rounds and ERC 5/8... You have to remember that WRC has Monte and Sweden/Arctic in winter and during last few years ERC always started later. I just like very friendly, almost family atmosphere in ERC, without this "stiffness" present in WRC :)
This could actually work of they get it right. And the dreaded 'rotation' system for the WRC, could potentially return - except the year your event isn't in the WRC, it becomes an ERC round. But, I don't expect them do to that.
Rallying needs more than 1 viable international series - other disciplines manage it.
This would be the end of an era going right back to the IRC of Eurosport running the second tier international rally championship. My initial thought is that I don’t like it, competition is generally a good thing and Eurosport have brought some good innovations over the years but let’s see what RB come up with. If they can secure some better broadcast deals and maybe even give us a televised power stage then it could be a good thing.
The biggest theoretical advantage that could come from this would be if NEP starts producing an 'All Live' level of professional live coverage. It could even still be broadcast on Eurosport, returning to the peak IRC level of coverage. But that's a big if. Would Red Bull be willing to fund that until the value of the ERC is lifted enough for events/nations to want to pay the promoter enough to cover those costs with their inclusion on the calendar? I don't know, maybe with WRC rotation. I think there's a way that can work, but I don't think it's a sure fire money maker...
You guys always mention IRC but My question would be... does the erc need to be bigger?
I mean... its an european championship for basically privateers only. In the spanish round, there lots of drivers from the spanish rally champioship.. in the italian round, theres lots of italian drivers from the national championship... That seems to work but I could be wrong, since im not from europe. I see erc as a "lets see who is the best R5 driver from the national championships in europe (irish, uk, italy, czech, spain, deutschland...) plus those full time entries that cant afford a full wrc carrer, like Lukyanuk, Kopecky, Kajetan... Does it need to be bigger than that? I mean.. the whole rally niche already KNOWS about erc, so its not like a "new world championship" trying to get recognized, like extreme-e or pure-etcr or eskootr
ERC as it is now is fine in many things. It has a good competitive level, a reasonable selection of events and a large number of young talents. IMHO it found its role in the sport and fulfills it. The change from Eurosport to RB is probably more about the desired creation of the direct talent ladder which IMHO is a good thing to do for both championships since ERC proved itself in the last couple of years as an excelent platform for young drivers and a good fundament for one's WRC career.
Let's be also honest, Eurosport didn't care that much about ERC lately. It makes little sense to bring back their effort from IRC times because at that time it was all about exploiting the sorry state of the WRC and creating a well welcomed competition which ultimately lead to WRC getting into better shape again. A large part of that success was the stubborn stance of the ACM which went to IRC together with money to pay the first modern all-live event. The other and even more important one was the will of some manufacturers to engage in a competitive series to WRC. Those days are long gone. Nowadays ERC is about privateers and IMHO that's perfectly fine.
Of course I'll be happy if they add some stages from ERC to the All-live broadcast but I see it as a rather difficult challenge for the reason that there is no fixed entry field. Basically anyone can come and win which is good but it makes live of a broadcasting director very difficult.
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It's with a french team (TM Competition) so I would think it will be a French driver as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira