I am having no problems - well, since the stage started.
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I am having no problems - well, since the stage started.
For Turkey, with everything happening, I feel like they missed out with the breaks, they could also have shown more cars while doing interviews i a smaller window on-screen.
Most people are interested in the driving, then the actual servicing of the cars. Interviews are nice to hear, but doesn't need to take the whole screen.
Just re-watched coverage from SS11 where all kinds of things were happening and sadly alllive wasn't really able to follow, sticking to the rigid programme they set up.
50% of the stage coverage is watching inside of Breen's cockpit with smoke (while he was in 6th place), well it's good cause that was deviation from the "preplanned" programme. But then first Mikkelsen (from first split) and then Ogier (half way trough) get into trouble and they just keep the same schedule of following every car trough last few kms instead of switching to the rally leader or the 5time world champion.
Bit more flexibility would be nice.
It's a technical limitation that they cannot show absolutely everything they want. They have the transmitter receiver aeroplane flying above the cars, but on a 34 km stage in the mountains they have to choose the portion of the stage they're showing. If they had known that Ogier is going to crash at a certain corner, I bet they would have chosen that portion of the stage to show live. But they were expecting everything to go well and show the seaside corners at the end of the stage.
My issue in Turkey was too much of the onboards and nowhere near enough stage-side camera's or heli shots.
Watching so much of the driver's or the road ahead was quite boring. The cars look great so let's see them in action !
My personal problem is the cancelation of rally radio.
I know they were not perfect but for those like me who work in office with the computer it was very comfortable to work with the radio on the earphones and stay up to date on what was happening.
The same on saturday-sunday, if you were at home doing other stuff you could swith on the radio and follow everything.
I don't want to buy all live, the product is not good for me and I don't have the time to watch all the stages.
Any other on the same situation?
There i still radio link on website. You don't have to buy all live.
https://www.wrc.com/live-ticker/live_popup_radio.html
It's no longer 'radio' as such, just an audio feed of the All Live video stream.
But they really need more stage cameras and/or drones to give a better show on the live stream to make it watchable for hours.