Which rally should they add to the WRC-calendar?

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Originally Posted by scn

On the contrary you just hear good things about the rally from the manufacturers, the FIA, the journalists. Maybe they are lying,...

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PR and emotions.

Have they ever hated a rally?

The main thing is that they had 13 events to replace in favour of Poland and the weakest link was the acropolis...

what manufacturer value has a financially dead and rotten country for the next 10 years ?? if we want more manufacturers in the sport we need to provide them with a good market... you cannot make any profit by selling tradition and other romantic crap... it was a good choice.

So, the agreement for Polish WRC round is for three years - great news!

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Originally Posted by Franky

Have they ever hated a rally?

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No, but they have many times spoken about bad points in a rally, including Acropolis some times.
This time everything was fine according to them. And except of the money issue, which by the way has been covered completely by the present organizer, nothing else was said.

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Originally Posted by NxOxT

what manufacturer value has a financially dead and rotten country for the next 10 years ?? if we want more manufacturers in the sport we need to provide them with a good market... you cannot make any profit by selling tradition and other romantic crap

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Are you kidding? You mean to tell me that before the financial problems in Greece, this country was a significant market for the manufacturers and now it is not? Those years VW was selling only 15.000 cars per year and Ford even less. Munich alone was a more important market than Greece or Portugal or Cyprus. These are so small that nobody ever cared about them. Please find a better argument to support your obsession.

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Originally Posted by kober

So, the agreement for Polish WRC round is for three years - great news!

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Yes, and you have to remember that this will be "multi-country event" as they call it. It means two days in Poland and one day in Lithuania. FIA was pushing organizers to do those multi-country events and those Polish ones agreed and I think that is also one of the reasons why Rally Poland will be in WRC in 2014.

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Originally Posted by scn

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Originally Posted by NxOxT

what manufacturer value has a financially dead and rotten country for the next 10 years ?? if we want more manufacturers in the sport we need to provide them with a good market... you cannot make any profit by selling tradition and other romantic crap

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Are you kidding? You mean to tell me that before the financial problems in Greece, this country was a significant market for the manufacturers and now it is not? Those years VW was selling only 15.000 cars per year and Ford even less. Munich alone was a more important market than Greece or Portugal or Cyprus. These are so small that nobody ever cared about them. Please find a better argument to support your obsession.

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If the manufacturers interest for the direct effect in the markets should ask for rounds in States, China, India, Japan, Brazil etc. The benefit for them comes from worldwide TV, magazine and net coverage of spectacular and legendary events. Believe it or NOT, the hot cash was the only criterion for FIA.

http://www.africatopsports.com/2013/10/ ... pour-2015/

Cote d'Ivoire wanna host a WRC round in 2015.
Even if it could not hapen, it would be great to see Bandana back in WRC :eek:

Ghana next door to Cote d'Ivoire has the oil money now, perhaps they could joint host an event with a run through the Tai Forest.
Certainly miss the raised suspensions and extra frontal protection of the 'Africa spec' cars.
I wonder how many taxis would need to enter to make up numbers.

they should first focus on bringing back the acropolis

They should first merge Deutschland with Alsace (France has "de-facto" two events in WRC, right now), giving Greece back its slot, then get on-board a Russian and Brazilian event, as both events could put fresh cash into the teams and the championship too.

All that IMHO.