This week could give us the answer of next years calendar. So comments before under and after we have it?
Finland two weeks later?
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This week could give us the answer of next years calendar. So comments before under and after we have it?
Finland two weeks later?
Germany stays and Turkey leaves would be my guess.
Japan replaces essentially Corsica as a tarmac round and Kenya replaces Turkey as a rough rally, keeping the overall structure equal to this year. However, with Spain becoming a full tarmac round the amount of tarmac is increased. This assuming that the Northern Ireland tarmac rally won't happen...Quote:
Originally Posted by Got Mail
New Zealand instead of Australia?
Usually FIA doesn´t make many changes same time ...
Sal the 2nd has it right, The problems of a 'hard border' in the island of Ireland if Brexit goes ahead and the absence of a functioning local administration mean that there is no way NI can take the GB round. If they wait long enough there will just be one country to apply for resurrection of Rally Ireland as a competitor to GB for an autumn round in the calendar.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
So, in your opinion, what changes will come?Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
I don´t know. Too many rumours...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
I guess their changes depend on the ambition of WRC Promoter, whose job it is to propose it....Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
Then as with NZ and Australia the Irish can trade off with Scotland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mintexmemory
Spot on. The promoter’s idea to get a rally in French mainland to replace Corsica (ignoring that Monte-Carlo is run on French mainland) sounds surreal, especially when new countries are standing in a queue to enter the WRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sal the 2nd
Get it. French. As long as it will be tarmac it doesn't matter so it can break down gravel hiatusQuote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
Have the FIA even set a final date for annoucing calander for 2020 yet?
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Friday highlights on Red Bull TV had a small section on 2020 Calendar. It said withing next 1 to 2 weeks. Not sure how official that timeline is.Quote:
Originally Posted by DocMS
�� WRC 2020 (via Charly Barazal)
���� Monte-Carlo
���� Sweden
���� Mexico
���� Chile
���� Argentina
���� Portugal
���� Sardinia
���� Safari
���� Finland
���� Deutschland
���� New Zealand
���� Catalunya
���� Northern Ireland
���� Japan
4 out of 5 last rallies on tarmac and all gravel before that. Dunno tbh, if a driver gets a lead after Finland, it will be very hard to catch on tarmac after that.
IMO it's missing that sort of a grande finale (à la rainy and muddy Rally GB), but other than that, very very very good. And to see these current beasts on the mighty rally roads of NZ... just beautiful. Can't wait.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
WRC should end with 2 European rounds EVER!
Is that guy a reliable source?
RallySport Magazine notes that Turkey and Corsica will be out, Australia swapped with NZ for one year...
Germany stays
Auto Hebdo also mentioned the issues between choosing Turkey and Germany and it being an ultimatum.
NZ will take over AUS for good after next year. The event will be held in the north island and half of all Kiwis in Auckland will attend which is about 100 times more than the poor attendance for Australia.Quote:
Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
Half the spectators in Aussie are from NZ anyway! ;)
I'll be happy if NZ is back in the WRC (captain obvious strikes again) but don't want to get my hopes up too much until its official.
Amen!
Hopes for Paddon return then! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by GravelBen
According to Paul Fraikin the calender of WRC 2020 would be like this:
Monte Carlo
Sweden
Mexico
Chili
Argentina
Portugal
Sardinia
Kenya
Finland
Germany
New Zealand
Spain
Northern Ireland
Japan
Still can’t believe the GB one will not be in the main land... and not even gravel!Quote:
Originally Posted by wwbroe
What a crock of shit.
As much as I am open to changes, for me a season should start in Monte and finish in GB... Can't quite explain why, but Monte is a big gamble and it's a nice rally to kick off the season after the break with pretty much any driver having a chance to win, and GB late in the year with rain, darkness, mud, etc. just has all the ingredients for a drama finale.
Well, this is caused by the MSA, not FIA... ;) I'm afraid that, in the long run, this move could cause a "Brexit" from the WRC calendar. I don't really understand what's wrong with Wales Rally GB. As long as they manage to organize it, they should keep it.
If they can get to use the right stages rally NI will be amazing we have had to travel across to Wales is time for u guys to come this way!!!
The UK is a small country land mass wise, it takes bugger all time to travel from point A to point B so get over it, in reality you are only looking at provincial locations in reasonable sized countriesQuote:
Originally Posted by T16
NI will be a year max I reckon. Think plans will be getting put in place for it to be moved elsewhere on the mainland for 2021 onwards
Chill out pal, I’m allowed to whinge about losing my favourite rally from a reasonable location and it will mean a ferry journey and a lot more driving, so it will be a bit or a chew on!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mk2 RS2000
Hope this is the case!Quote:
Originally Posted by er88
I remember being in England, Scotland and Wales all in the same day once to follow it. Screaming the balls off my mates fiesta pop plus!
What a disappointment, this calendar. Turkey, a proper rough gravel rally, gone in favor of Germany. And the season ends with 4/5 tarmac rallies, ending with an unknown rally Japan? Come on... Wales Rally GB should be the final event.
Turkey is the last thing I would miss. AFAIK many crews don't like it as well.
But I agree that the season end shall not be Japan.
Just think that Turkey is replaced with Kenya and Corsica with Japan.Quote:
Originally Posted by MentalParadox
Well I for one can’t wait for Rally NZ to be included even though from halfway down the South Island where I live it is 1250km by road to Auckland where the rally will be based plus we have to add in a ferry crossing between the two islands where on a reasonably calm days there is only a three metre swell in Cook Strait. The excitement is buildingQuote:
Originally Posted by T16
The nature of the event will be entirely different from what Rally GB has always been. It'll serve a different market to Rally GB. Trivialising the move to NI as just being a issue for fans in Britain not wanting to travel over to NI is a nonsense, particularly on this forum in particular where a good number of us Brits who post here already attend rallies overseas, with those being further away than Northern Ireland...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mk2 RS2000
I believe there is great merit in holding a WRC rally in Northern Ireland. That doesn't mean that we can't lament that it could/has come at the cost of ending one of international rallying's historic fixture's.
I can see it staying there for a few years, before the UK is dropped entirely... If they can manage to get the funding for NI next year, given the prevailing circumstances, then keeping the funding coming going forward should be relatively easier.Quote:
Originally Posted by er88
I'm getting the feeling that the gradually reduced funding from the Welsh Government is making the Welsh event appear unviable to Motorsport UK going forward. Scotland seems like the strongest theoretical alternative in GB, but is the appetite there to fund a motorsport event that isn't entirely electric in this day and age? If there were supporters of the cause in the Scottish Government already talking up the idea a rally there (like in NI) it might seem possible, but at the moment there seems to be no noise from them at all. So, at the very least, there's a lot of work to be done on Scotland. England? It would seem to me that you'd need a collaboration of too many local/regional authorities on side to even contemplate it being possible to get the event off the ground.
This calendar is i killer for privateers!
I can in a way understand the thinking behind FIAs plan to try to be a pusher of rally to the world.
But lets be realistic, rally as a "large" sport is european. All factories of WRCars, and WRC2 cars are in europe.
The first layer cars produced outside europe is R4 and it is good that local tuners can finally play a part at FIA level.
But I think the expansion policy of FIA is wrong.
The result is that up and coming drivers can not afford anything else than the euro rounds on the calendar. So maybe this will give boost to ERC, as a feeder series to factory seats in WRC.
WRC will loose the privateer figting factory aspect, that has been unique to the world championsip in rally. Too bad.
The rules actually say that WRC teams have to be based in Europe.