He's not going to do the Belgian championship. Maybe a few events, if we're lucky..Quote:
Originally Posted by Ounin
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He's not going to do the Belgian championship. Maybe a few events, if we're lucky..Quote:
Originally Posted by Ounin
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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
I wonder whether a BRC campaign in a R5 208 in 2016 is more likely than a season in ERC next year? The ERC is virtually invisible here in the UK now compared to how the IRC was at it's peak, which was still fairly obscure. Obviously we don't know what kind of TV deal the BRC will get on its return in 2016, but I honestly can't imagine it offering worse exposure than what the ERC now gets on Eurosport! You'd also have to imagine it'd be cheaper to do the BRC & Rally GB than touring Europe, on top of rallying in front of spectators who might actually buy a car from Peugeot UK, rather than some other importer on the far side of Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
That's what I always thought about Skoda UK when they rallied in the IRC, but then the coverage for the BRC at the time was pretty poor...
Now that Tour de Corse is back in WRC, does anybody know if Rally Valais will replace it in ERC? Nothing heard about it in the media by now.
Acording to latest forecast, Sunday will be very windy and with spoty heavy snow. I gues strong wind gusts also can affect driving somehow!
Gusts ap yo 22-24 m/s are forecasted in the region (around Liepaja).
YesQuote:
Originally Posted by WUff1
Most likely as the Tour de Corse is now due to take place on October 1st - 4th with the Rally of Greece the week after that. traditional end of October slot for Rallye du Valais?
Valais was in calendar as reserve event, last weekend in October.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack4688`
Statement by Eurosport Events regarding Tour de Corse
FIA European Rally Championship promoter Eurosport Events acknowledges the decision taken by l’Assemblée de la Collectivité Territoriale de Corse to support the FIA WRC bid from the Fédération Française du Sport Automobile (FFSA).
Since the Tour de Corse was dropped from the FIA World Rally Championship in 2008, Eurosport Events has worked with the local organising body, the ASACC, during the last four years to maintain the international status of Tour de Corse and save this famous rally.
It worked successfully with the Tour de Corse organisers, arranging live television coverage on three occasions and reviving the rally to an international-level contest, with current Hyundai factory WRC driver Thierry Neuville scoring a breakthrough victory in Corsica in 2011 live on Eurosport.
Eurosport Events is pleased to see that its efforts and significant investment made over the last four years have not been in vain and that it has helped Tour de Corse return to the pinnacle of rallying.
The financial situation between the ASACC and Eurosport Events regarding the 2014 event is still not settled, and Eurosport Events looks forward to a positive outcome from its discussions with ASACC and the various Corsican authorities.
Eurosport Events will propose an amended 2015 ERC calendar, with Rallye International du Valais as the new final round, to the next FIA Rally Commission meeting.
Hey! Valais!
I really hope that someone like Bouffier can come on board with a decent ERC programme because looking at it right now in Latvia we really need some more guys at the top of the big class. Hopefully Lukyanuk too will do a bigger programme but I see the championship being between Kajto and Breen.
I agree with you, the driving level this moment is very very low.these drivers dont tempt me to follow rally Greece this year.
cannot see how much different it is from last year...Quote:
Originally Posted by nafpaktos
Abbring and two official skoda.lappi on the one of them!
And Bouffier.Quote:
Originally Posted by nafpaktos
Of course,but i just named drivers followed the whole championship.
Exactly. Unfortunately Peugeot chose a less experienced guy on a smaller programme for their second car and it seems we might only see the works Skoda team on Barum this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by nafpaktos
Peugeot didint choose,just its the prize for peugeot cup.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
Well it´s not even sure if Skoda does the whole rest of ERC, and not even where their drivers start (Czech championship, ERC and WRC2).
Indeed ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by nafpaktos
And Abbring chose to run WRC and leaves ERC :mark:
Not looking likely. Lappi will do WRC2 with Skoda Motorsport, at the request of VW (I suppose they want to promote him to the second VW team in 2016) and it would be easier to run a second car in WRC than do a whole other championship. Maybe they will come back to ERC in 2016.Quote:
Originally Posted by WUff1
When he is offered a works WRC seat that makes perfect sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
Another driver whose career was rebooted by E/IRC.
Isn't Hyundai developing a i20 R5 as well? Maybe we will see Abbring in some selected events with that car.
Yes, that would be nice. Let's hope :)
As i said before ending IRC was a mistake....Now ERC is almost a Junior championship with mediocre drivers because FIA wants the best drivers to be in the top categorie (WRC). And then we have this stupid calendar where every month there are some kind of change on the Events... Only local drivers will keep some rallies interesting.
No SKODA in 2015 ? Only private teams with few resources ? Gentlement drivers ? Really going downhill. Eurosport WAKE UP !!!
Actually the junior championship is brilliant (on the contrary to the overall 4WD competition) and it's the best thing about ERC now.
Please tell us what genius things FIA has done to get the best drivers to WRC...Quote:
Originally Posted by Fran2013
Look at the IRC a couple years back and now.....Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
Do you really think that FIA wants the ERC to compete with WRC2 ?
Abbring and Skoda all to the WRC says a lot
ERC will be seen always as a second championship to WRC..
The wording "European" vs "World" says everything
Why shoudn't Skoda (parent company) want to win a 'World' Championship?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fran2013
All the national companies / distributors should have interest in the ERC.
Mind you, Eurosport are not exactly setting the world alight with the coverage of the ERC: here in the UK the highlights are on at 'stupid-o'clock' and they did what, 3, maybe 4 hours of Live coverage in all the 2014 season? Two events in to 2015, and still no Live. Have they announced any plans for some? No, just an extra 15 minute preview show from each event.
It isn't always the fault of the FIA....
You are right. But does it have to be like that? If we look at football, the most exciting sport in the world, the European Championship in football is more exciting and has a better level of competition than the World Cup. Why is it so? Because the best football teams are from Europe. Exactly like in rallying. All the best rally teams and drivers are from Europe. Unfortunately European Championship doesn't benefit from this at all. I sometimes think that FIA wants to kill the ERC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fran2013
I don't call 10pm-ish stupid o'clock...Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
The coverage is still massively more than WRC2.
Perhaps we can transfer this discussion to the 'Was ending IRC a mistake' thread and keep this one for 2015 news?
First of all Abbring went to WRC because every driver naturally wants to do so when he has a chance. It's natural and has nothing to do with FIA decisions. Meeke, Neuville, Mikkelsen and others did the same in the past.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fran2013
Second Škoda doesn't go from ERC to WRC. They were present in SWRC/WRC2 in the past years as well (for example Hänninen or last year few starts of Lappi). I'm pretty sure they will continue in ERC but this year is special because their car will be ready quite late. If they see little chance to take the title due to the missed events it might make them to go only for few high profile events such as Ypres or Barum.
Valais in...
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117631
Slowson reports in the Liepaja thread that Lukyanuk has a 9 event ERC programme. Some good news.
Should never have been left out to start with.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
Currect ERC standings have been updated:
http://www.fiaerc.com/standings
[QUOTE=Jarek Z;1039454]Currect ERC standings have been updated:
http://www.fiaerc.com/standings[/QUOT
Some errors on ERC3.
Mikhail Skripnikov doesn't get any points, but on that board he gets 3!?!
Wojciech Chuchała was the sixth fastest driver on leg 1, so he gets 2 points
Gino Bux was seventh fast driver on leg 2, so he gets 1 point
Reinis Nitišs was the sixth fastest driver on leg 2 and eighth overall on ERC 3, so he should get 6 points
Chris Igram got 1 min penalty at the end of leg 1, finishing in eihth position so, he doesn't get 2 extra points
Jon Armstrong and Mattias Adielsson also should have 1 point, 15 and 21 respectively.
For that reasons, JERC is also with errosrs
Štajf today confirmed to go to CoI.
Apparently the points system is so complicated that nobody knows how to calculate the points, including the organizers ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by RICARDO75
In an article in Latvian web site - http://www.go4speed.lv/lv/news/erc/4...icas-komandas/ - Chervonenko (Lukyanuks Co-driver) mentions: "We had an offer from M-sport. We will think about it".