Citroen are posting lots of photos on facebook from 2007 onwards,is it a sign of saying goodbye paving way for Peugeot entrance?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
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Citroen are posting lots of photos on facebook from 2007 onwards,is it a sign of saying goodbye paving way for Peugeot entrance?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
I am a former employee of North One Television and spent the last 2 years working on the WRC for the production arm for the company. I haven't read through all the posts on here so I can't say if what I will say will be news to any of you but I thought it best to put across the point of view of someone from the inside and give everyone a better understanding of exactly what happened near the end.
Firstly, around September time, we were told by the powers that be at North One that Roman Antanov had decided he could provide WRC coverage, worldwide, cheaper and more efficient using his own employees. This meant the whole TUPE ordeal started with his company CSI and all was planning to go ahead up until November when he was arrested/made insolvent and the deal was off, with the rights to the rally then to be decided by the FIA. Firstly they were encouraging new bids from anyone that could pick up the pieces and carry on the progress already made, there were 2 parties interested, the first pulled out 5 days before Christmas as the FIA had not responded to any communication from this party and got fed up of being messed around. The second was from a Middle Eastern party and just as everything looked to be in place, just after new year, the FIA decided that they wanted North One Sport/Television to have nothing to do with it anymore as they had become tired of being 'messed about' and with 'nothing stable in place'.
From the inside, I can tell you for a fact that had the FIA decided to go with one of these new bids for global broadcast and promotion, the WRC would be in a much better place than it is now. It was thrown on Eurosport late in the day and they didn't have the resources or funding to take on such a job and since then it has become a complete joke with Nokia backing out last week, it is moving backwards at a rapid pace. Firstly, nobody wants to sponsor an event/manufacturer that isn't being promoted/broadcast on a global scale so eventually more and more sponsors will drop out and because of this, none of the teams will have the funding to race in as many events each year, slowly dropping out. Mini is a prime example of this, Prodrive pretty much jumped straight off the sinking ship one it had been announced.
North One Sport were actually doing an incredible job maintaing the rally as it was, the FIA like to criticise their work as it wasn't making as much money as they would have liked and the WRC will always play second fiddle to F1. WRC doesn't recieve as much coverage not because North One Sport/FIA weren't pushing it in the right directions but simply because it isn't sexy enough like the F1. In my honest opinion, the FIA are entirely to blame for this and only now are they starting to realise what a huge mistake it was to end North One Sport's involvement with the WRC in the way that they did.
The 2 years I spent working on the WRC were the best years I've enjoyed as a professional and I know that nothing will rival it. I hope one day to get back into the same line of work and rejoin the incredible family that is the WRC.
If anyone has any questions that they think I might be able to answer, please don't hesitate to ask and I will try to answer as best I can.
ok thank you...we will get back to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfan2000
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Originally Posted by tommeke_B
The cameras on the cars themselves were very cheap as they could easily be sacrificed if the car were to roll and the camera break. Most of the top drivers had 2 cameras that would cut between every 2 minutes, so you have a shot from the front wing of the car and then a shot from the roof/bonnet/grill. I think it was about as good as they were going to get. In terms of why certain footage was chosen to be part of the show, the onboards were usually synced with camera positions on the stage, or interesting points, maybe a particular section where a certain driver was fast or where they had lost time. There was also the telemetery option where we demonstrated how much quicker someone was than someone else over a certain section, using WRC stage simulator etc. We did only have split times to go on most of the time so it ws a case of trying to find out why a driver was slow in a certain section. For example, there was some really good audio from Greece last year when Petter got stuck in the dust on an night stage and there was a huge row between Chris Patterson and himself.
I can't tell you how much I've seen on onboards that havent been shown. Jari-Matti getting out of his car between stages in NZ 2 years ago to have a pi$$ whilst the cameras were still rolling. Various photogrpahers and animals being hit but not being able to show them.
http://www.worldrallyblog.com/2012/0...-from-citroen/Quote:
Originally Posted by Red bull
you didn t answer the question.But ok...Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfan2000
Sorry N.O.T .... you were the person who made the disparaging remarks. It is entirely your responsibility to validate them with facts. Time to put up or shut up.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
Well simple enough...
Mouton was a nobody and was there because she was a woman and she did everything with a car from the space age for the time.
Jean todt was a nobody co-driver and then a sell out to F1...
ok now ?
Have you seen any person with even a remote success story in the WRC to be part of the committee ??
Every nobody who never achieved anything in the sport despite their efforts tried to be famous once more by being part in the WRC committee...
But unfortunately once you are an underachiever in your 30s and 40s whch are your most creative years, you are not going to be anything more than that in your 60s apart from an uglier underachiever.
no problem if WRC committe without world champions , the sport doesn't need rally heroes at managing level...but more peoples who understand the sport, and have business/ managing skillsQuote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
NOS administration is vis major from FIA point of view - they can not do miracles in 4 months
Nokia left the WRC - not supprising as they close factories and lay off more thousands people, nothing to do with the level of WRC
The bad thing is that FIA already starting to increase the next year fees and try to collect the money from organisers. This create the feeling that they are pessimistic that in short term (for 2013) a promoter and global sponsor will step and we can reach at least the former NOS level (which can not be the final target). It's too early to do that.
My question still the same as was in other thread. What could have been done better or on other way by NOS in the past?Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfan2000