My vote is for 12 rounds:
1. Jänner
2. Acores
3. Canarias
4. Corsica
5. Ypres
6. San Marino
-----------------
7. Bosphorus
8. Madeira
9. Barum
10. Yalta
11. Poland
12. Sanremo
Season divided into two halfs with 6 events, 4 of them count.
Printable View
My vote is for 12 rounds:
1. Jänner
2. Acores
3. Canarias
4. Corsica
5. Ypres
6. San Marino
-----------------
7. Bosphorus
8. Madeira
9. Barum
10. Yalta
11. Poland
12. Sanremo
Season divided into two halfs with 6 events, 4 of them count.
Agree with Mille Miglia but there's need for balance of asphalt and gravel. Together with current four Italian rounds in IRC+ERC it's clear most is out for the future...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
For Cyprus I don't agree that there is no interest. Cyprus had good entries in the last IRC seasons with a lot of drivers from MERC etc. Much better than many of this years events. However I agree that it shall be out just because it is round of MERC. I don't like an idea to have both FIA regional championships in one event.
Counting only limited number of events doesn't help them anyway. It only helps works teams whose drivers can take more risk having jokers in their pockets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
I would love to see a gravel North England / Scots Borders event over 2 days, failing that an Irish tarmac event should be in the calender.
Was there any interest from the local organizers?
;) Of courseQuote:
Originally Posted by pucky54
Jänner has my vote for the opening round, who needs Monte if you have Jänner :D
I've never been to Mille Miglia so I can't really judge... Why wouldn't Fins be interested? There are always young talented Finnish drivers around who can't make it to the WRC just yet. And besides, Fins love ALL things rally :) But what is this Janner rally? Never heard of it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
Cyprus is a great rally, but I agree, not much interest from spectators. But like Mirek said, you need to balance the tarmac and gravel. I don't know too many other quality gravel events. I've been to the Cyprus rally a couple of times when it was in the WRC, and it was a great event to visit, not so many people so you could get to the stages quite easily. Nice scenery too and rough roads, providing a very different challenge than all the other European events.
Why should ERC be strictly for private drivers? I think Skoda and Peugeot might be interested to run semi-factory teams like in the IRC.
You don't know Jänner? It's annual season opening. First international event of the year held in Austrian highlands near Czech border with international competition of Austrian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Italian, Slovak and other crews. Also one of the very few events were Stig Blomqvist still drive! Roads of Jänner were also used for Pirelli Star Driver Shootout but that was in summer. This year it was ERC opener won by Jan Kopecký infront of Juhö Hänninen and Beppo Harrach. The leaderboard was changing all the time with difficult weather (heavy new snow) and many offs.
In fact the rally is very similar to Monte Carlo. Stages are very similar to for example Saint Bonnet and the weather is usually similar. The difference is that in Jänner narrow snow tyres are allowed even with asphalt basis of the roads.
Here an onboard of Juho ;)
Onboard Hanninen Jänner rally 2012 RZ 16.mp4 - YouTube
as a fan I would really like an ERC event in UK, expecially I find Rally Scotland beautiful :) but yeah, I guess it depends from many things...
Rally-eMag: Sacrifice few minutes to watch this video of Darkstar ;)
Jänner Rallye 2012 [HD] - YouTube