and now it seems the czech autocross championship got nyirad's date for them. rallyx also got kymiring in their european series calendar (monte, valkenswaard, latvia, sweden, kymiring, denmark, estering)Quote:
Originally Posted by saco0o
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and now it seems the czech autocross championship got nyirad's date for them. rallyx also got kymiring in their european series calendar (monte, valkenswaard, latvia, sweden, kymiring, denmark, estering)Quote:
Originally Posted by saco0o
Can't help but feel that WorldRX is dead, probably communicated as a 'pause'. Alongside Nitro going away, seems like the Eriksson's RallyX programme could be all that's left - but I worry they may stretch too far too quick with the 'global' concept. Hoping not!
Needs a rethink - RX is not, and has never been a 'global' sport, despite people trying to convince us all it is. I liken it to Cyclocross in cycling.
Make it a strong privateer European championship; if there's interest outside Europe, have a FiA World Cup.
true! tbf i got really happy seeing rallyx announcing (on christmas) their "european championship". i thought they were going to run the north series and the south series as their main focus but i guess its going to be a full "european championship" now - with secondary titles for the north & south participants, like indycar does giving titles to oval champion and street/road champions. thats to incentive more drivers to compete on their regions probably
the "global series" will be a fiasco. only the monster energy team has the actual cash to do 3 rounds in europe and 2 in america. the other teams dont have that $. I hope they scrap that. just have all rounds in europe, for f sake, we are seeing this sport doesnt work outside europe. cant they see that too? jeezzzz
apparently Kenneth Hansen said they may have to wait until february to know if there will be a new promoter for world rx. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5xfRWfgZxY )
while they all wait, rosberg racing ended their extreme-e team. they are not joining the extreme-h championship. ( https://racer.com/2024/12/27/rosberg...am-shuts-down/ )
and travis pastrana basically mentioned in a recent post that nitrocross is gone for good.
( https://www.facebook.com/TravisPastr...fPFsgFSaiRQKvl )
Sounds like all 3 series are essentially dead
Maybe WorldRX will merge with RallyX?
It's really wierd, all things looked set up for 2025 season and it's gone out of nowhere
social medias are back. they posted an update about waiting for a new promoter to take over.
i found on reddit that someone talked to holjes regarding tickets for 2025, they said they are planning for the race but still need to 'get things cleat with the new promoter'. not sure what i think atm. i just want the rallyx european series to be a success. the series is even offering help to pay northern teams to go race in the rounds at montealegre and valkenswaard
I saw somewhere that Gronholm will drive in Finnish Rally Championship, so that's a bad sign also. Less competition, less chance of surving that series. Maybe also many guys did lost motivation, since no one can beat Kristoffersson, even when he have bad race, he won.
on a random note, i just found out that there is EIGHTEEN of those ugly nitrocross' eSUVs sold and 'ready to race" in america.
EIGHTEEN! i dont believe starting from the TOP (with half million buck electric suvs) is the right way to start a championship (especially in america, where theres no rx roots), but maaan, eighteeeen cars!! thats a pretty decent number for a RX championship
- the "street race" in the UK is also cancelled. the event will not host the race anymore.
- no promoter so far, holjes still no selling tickets too
on the other hand: RallyX European Series starts in March 29-30 in Montealegre (POR) with almost 100 drivers registered! and with tanner foust, oli eriksson, fraser mcconnell, casper jansen, svenson, tommi hallman, lane vacala, vitcor vranckx and a guy from france who races with a mercedes (!!) among the names on the open 4wd class!
the open 2wd class will also have some more diverse entries, which is going to make it a little harder for Tiger to win everything this year, especially because theres a dutch fella with a +600HP car! it seems matt ohman may run in this class this year.
AND we can expect more entries for the rounds on the northern leg races! (sverige, suomi, latvija, danmark)
all races livestreamed on youtube
I think that at this point we could say the championship is dead. I mean for WorldRX
Veiby was guessing start at Höljes like last year
It should never have become a World Championship to start with.
Just a bunch of families and their kids.
Exactly!! Either a European championship at the most, or a few races for a World Cup. It's simply not a global sport......It should really take place in the autumn/ winter as a 'filler' for the rest of motorsport in their off-season.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
Being a World Championship isn't what has stopped the RX. It was very strong and healthy as one until a few years ago with plenty of different cars and teams taking part.
The problems have been the reduction in Manufacturers, the arrival of electric cars and the problems with the Promoter after Red Bull.
It clearly wasn't strong and healthy if IMG walked away from it. Even they realised that it was doomed with the current teams etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Weren't the teams the one who wanted the electric technology in the sport? And then all walk away, when the thing didn't drink the blood...Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
I don't think we'll see this World Championship this year - if at all ever again.
Lets face it, it's March and they clearly can't find a promoter.
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Originally Posted by rallyfiend
My point was about it being a WORLD Championship not being the problem, but these other reasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
Hmmmm, adding MORE involvement from the FIA (this FIA administration in particular) is unlikely to make things better....
Yeah, canceling it completely would be much better, right?? Because that was the only other option
Last chance saloon time. It's a really tough job but let's hope the FIA can do a better job as promoter and get the World RX back on track.
If WRX is a fantastic platform for raising awareness of the transition to sustainable rallycross track building, does that mean there will be new tracks being built for the WRX or is that guy just hammering the pr buzzword generator
from the release:
In recent years, each World and European Rallycross event has been watched by a growing audience of over 30 million highly-engaged viewers in over 100 countries – creating a fantastic core fanbase to build upon.
.......30 million.......
Oh dear - more figures plucked out of thin air.......If it really was that popular, then it wouldn't need the FiA to take over, would it?Quote:
Originally Posted by saco0o
Sports viewership is pretty much chemistry when it comes to numbers.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyRAC
So what were they doing until now? Just having their name infront of championship?
Well as in every other, they were just a governing body. Now FIA is a promoter basically.
i wonder if there was a meeting and someone at fia went like: "well, liberty media strategy is to just flood social media 24-7 with brainless stuff and they are going richier and richier by the minute because 'eyeballs' is all sponsors actually cares so.... whaaaat if we start doing the promotion thing ourselves to get even more money?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenneth
wrc is next if that works
As there was a tender for new promoter and nobody won, I expect there was no other option for FIA. Take the promotion or cancel the championship (at least for this year).Quote:
Originally Posted by saco0o
The FIA is probably risking breaching the EU rule of crossing between sporting and commercial that was put in place in the early 2000's, so I guess no one put their hands up to run it and they were left with no option.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
When even WRC Promoter give it up, you know it's a bit screwed.....
TBH the World RX is stuck between a rock and a hard place at the moment for anyone running it.
With the cars in transition from ICE to EV leading to low Manufacturers interest and a totally dominant champion in Kristoffersen making the driver title battle non-existent. Even hardcore fans have been watching recent seasons out of habit rather than for any real enjoyment.
I dont see any big improvement any time soon whoever is in charge.
jeeez, mate =/Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
thats so true. you nailed the hardest of the nails (not sure this expression works in english)
WRX promissed the calendar by march 14... nothing so far.
also on calendars... not sure any of the fellas here follow the AWESOME european autocross championship, but the race in Vilkyciai Lithuania on june 8 was cancelled for financial reasons
They ''literally'' ''announced'' ''new promotor'' ''yesterday''... with FIA take charge of this new task. Their promises are just like government ones. Never realized or are announced very late or too late. So it's silly just to think about that calendar is even close to finish. I think it will be announce by their standards in 2030 for 2025 season. Again FIA taking charge... What could possible go wrong
calendar is out. basically same tracks in different dates.
Lousada (1jun), Holjes (6jul), Nyirad (20jul), Kymiring (24aug), Instambul (21sep)
they say theres a season finale for the worldRX to be included after Instambul
Geez, FIA jut repeating what was already done before?!
rallyx round 1 is LIVE now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV3ZE0Es3Ng