Wales Rally GB 2013

[big_sw2000]

Again, I say that the old RAC never covered the whole country, and that short routes are symptomatic more generally of a malaise in modern rallying.

You genally had Kielder, and Wales, with in between on the same event. Thats the whole country in rally terms.
In fact in the Network Q days, with the Cheltnham start. You had the statley homes, then 3 days in Wales. And that worked. People traveld down from up north, so what was the diffrance, other than the rip of price these days.
Steve

[wwbroe]

Last round of the championship, Rally Wales, is leaving Cardiff and moving to Wrexham.

Source: Wales Rally GB verlässt Cardiff*:: rallye-magazin.de

[Mintexmemory]

Last round of the championship, Rally Wales, is leaving Cardiff and moving to Wrexham.

Source: Wales Rally GB verlässt Cardiff*:: rallye-magazin.de

This is just a bit of lazy journalism re-treading the newspaper story that is the first post in this thread. As Fly Half said, in more basic welsh, - Wrexham is not a very nice place!! I'll believe a start and finish in Llandudno when I see it!

[matt91]

Just read through this thread then and i have to agree with the reason why it's going down the pan a bit, ticket prices are crazy i can only afford to make it to a few stages due to the price of tickets. i live 5 miles away from cardiff and i've never seen a single bit of promotion or something advertising the event not even a week before it starts. I feel like the wrc is dying off a bit it's not been the same since they've gone down to being 1.6's to many restrictions and not enough promotion is destroy the sport i love and grow up watching.

[rjbetty]

Just read through this thread then and i have to agree with the reason why it's going down the pan a bit, ticket prices are crazy i can only afford to make it to a few stages due to the price of tickets. i live 5 miles away from cardiff and i've never seen a single bit of promotion or something advertising the event not even a week before it starts. I feel like the wrc is dying off a bit it's not been the same since they've gone down to being 1.6's to many restrictions and not enough promotion is destroy the sport i love and grow up watching.

I have to say I pretty much agree with this. I think the new cars are a real step down for the WRC. I hope they are proving cheaper cos I feel the WRC isn't really the WRC so much anymore with the 1.6 cars. It doesn't help that the WRC suffers from a lack of truly top drivers, unlike F1. It's funny how a decade or so ago it was the other way round. The WRC had a massive glut of champions and winners and F1 only had a few (one?) truly creme de la creme driver.

I'll also bring up the topic of Superrally again. Dear FIA, I respectfully ask that you bin it as soon as and allow 3 cars to be nominated for points - for those teams who wish to do so.