Japan was going to be a tarmac round...
Corsica over Japan seems like a terrible idea, particularly if Japan were indeed going to cover the travel costs.
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Something is not adding up – why would you not include Japan? A motorsport World Championship should include Japan; F1, MotoGP & WEC all go there, so why not WRC? They’re even paying costs……
I don’t have a problem with Corsica, it’s one of the too few Tarmac events – but I’d drop Sardengna without too much thought; it’s has nice scenery, but is just another dry, dusty European event.
I don’t know what Chile was bringing (apart from £$£$£) when we already have Argentina & Mexico for the American continent.
There’s some muddled thinking as usual in the WRC. We always hear about costs, costs, and more costs – understandably so; but very little about value. Sometimes costs can bring in long term value and growth/ interest in the sport.
Yep, having 2 events in France is indefensible but looking at the way the promoter is rushing the Japanese entry it’s not an entire surprise having them waiting one year more: https://rallysportmag.com/is-this-th...rary-unveiled/
Don't drop Sardegna, it's the cheapest one to travel to for me and it's always great :-)
Regarding Sardinia - am I right in thinking that the promoter are essentially waiting to return the event to the mainland, but are keeping Sardinia in play as a stopgap until the right rally can be put together by the ACI?
I had a great time there this year but I'm not sure the teams love it.
I was told that if France got a F1 round then Corsica will get dropped by the FIA as the French Sports Federation people or who ever is in charge of sports in France wanted F1 but content with WRC if they couldn't get it.
The fact is that if you want a world level rally in Italy nowadays you can only do it there.
It seems that a lor of people don't want the wrc rally in Sardinia. Teams don't like it, people from the mainland don't like it, ACI don't like it because they say that Sardinia region don't pay enough. The fact is that Sardinia region is the only one willing to invest in such an event, even if it is limited compared to the total cost. All the others don't, or their ACI located association have no more money.
How come Australia is still on the Calendar, didn't NZ say they'd try to push to be their in 2019? and didn't the teams say they would boycott another event in Sargdegna?