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Offcourse its not realistic, they have even had one, John Buffum was his name, they also have had an event, but to start to build a rally culture by bringing the WRC to a country who has not even a proper base for rallying and where in the startlist is about 30 cars/event, is a waste of time in my opinion.
God for bid we can agree to disagree :)
I get more views on my videos on their forum than on this, not sure if that says anything though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomi
But from looking at pictures and stuff it seems to be pretty big, or maybe thats just the people who shows up to get Pastranas autograph...
Yes thats good :) , my point is just why take the pinnacle of the sport, to places where nobody is interested, when there is places that work hard for the sport, Belgium, Estonia, Czech, only a few to mention, they have the base already also the spectators. "Kannettu vesi ei kaivossa pysy" as you well know.Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
Was I saying USA will never produce a quality driver? I was simply asking for what does WRC need US or North America to be accurate when rallying is even more marginal sport there than it's in Europe as an example?Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
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Originally Posted by Tomi
Tomi is right.
US "Champignonskit" events still get only maybe 30-40 cars, and as we see, if Travis cannot consistently finish in the top 2/3 of VM events without Super-Rally and he's far and away one of the fastest in North America currently, then you have an idea of the level of speed.
Besides, remember he's already won the 2007 World rally Championship as we saw for a few days and the events are still small, and media coverage is only "Paid" coverage, not real interest, virtually no spectataors--OK maybe 50-75, maybe more in the population dense NE of USA.
Tomi's point is "Why fight to make USA love WRC rally?" when there are LOTS of places where it is welcome and have tradition that is exciting.
Where's Portogallo? San Remo, Safari?
WRC doesn't need more American claims of being "phenomenal" and that the drivers are "superstars" for coming a few places back from Pastrana, who can't break into the top half of the full GpN field.
I don't think an American will succeed in reasonable placements in WRC once the American promotion machines get hold of him. And from just the size of the US and the costs of entering all the events a person must have either independent weatlth (and we've seen how poorly motivated those are with independant wealth) of sponsorship support.Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
And once sponsors and "managers" get involved, they want their "product' to be seen in the USA, and better for them to win against maybe only one or 3 other "similarly" funded (by that I mean the next nearest teams to Subaru's US budget are probably 1/4 to 1/5 of subaru's funding) so they can scream "No1!!!!!" than go overseas and kicked and stomped into a bloody pulp very possibly for years.
I rest my case your honor.
hi all
finally i can say thank you for every body who took part in my research or experiment .
i dont really think that TP shoukd replace P.solberg and i think he still can get some great results with the new impreza .
Travis...well, he really need to upgrade his driving (may be Derek Ringer can help him) .
i am about to put a story about Solberg and Subaru .
thanks for all the reactions .
duby
To be honest, TP is nothing close to being a WRC star. He has fame but does not have the skills, even in PWRC. He can stay in the US and impress the American Subaru fan boys there with some silly stunts, like the one Subaru did with a super fly impreza stunt. blehh ..