Rally Discussion and Bar Talk Thread

[el_kukui]

Got it! Many thanks!

[dimviii]

Meeke without a roll
https://www.instagram.com/p/BoT6WWBF...d=kumzf3eot0cr

[AnttiL]

https://www.rally-maps.com/Rally-de-Espa%C3%B1a-1993

Rally Catalunya maps from 1993 onwards are now mapped, thanks to WRCWings for supplying the map material for digitizing.

[AnttiL]

https://www.rally-maps.com/Rally-de-Espa%C3%B1a-1993

Rally Catalunya maps from 1993 onwards are now mapped, thanks to WRCWings for supplying the map material for digitizing.

Also RAC Rally 1994 and 1995

https://www.rally-maps.com/RAC-Rally-1994

Talk about stupid liaisons, the whole of first day...

[AndyRAC]

Ah SS4 - Clumber Park; that was the live TV stage on Top Gear Rally Report....still got it on video somewhere.

I think it was only about 30 stage miles on the first day; but it was taking the sport to the masses. Unlike now when it's largely invisible. So much for progress.

[AnttiL]

Ah SS4 - Clumber Park; that was the live TV stage on Top Gear Rally Report....still got it on video somewhere.

Here is the 1993 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6l-1f_XsRs

[krissucool]

A little of topic but wanted to raise the question. How popular is rally in other countries? In Estonia, when Tänak is fighting for a win, the whole news media stops talking about anything else and that is the most importand thing for the whole country it seems.
I know Finnish media follows rally quite closely as well. But how is it in other countries?

The question comes mainly since I have been working abroad and know a lot of people from all across Europe and I basically know nobody who knows anything about rallying besides Estonians and Fins.

Not a single UK person I have spoken to knows who Evans is for instance. Even not the Welsh! (and we both work in and around sports).
I know rallies get a lot of people on the roads but how popular is Thierry Neuville in Belgium? Does the media cover him closely there. Do regular people even know who Seb Ogier is in France and so on?
Really interested in this, since my experience is that we Estonians and Fins are the only nutjobs following rally this closely.

[dupanton]

I know rallies get a lot of people on the roads but how popular is Thierry Neuville in Belgium? Does the media cover him closely there. Do regular people even know who Seb Ogier is in France and so on?

Rally is getting more and more popular in Belgium. With reports of 20min to a half hour on sunday after noon of every round of the Belgian championship, even Belgian top drivers are getting more known. For sure, there are quite a few people how know who Neuville is. Football and cycling are far more popular for sure.

[pantealex]

Rally Discussion and Bar talk thread is for this kind of questions...

Good question but wrong chain.

A little of topic but wanted to raise the question. How popular is rally in other countries? In Estonia, when Tänak is fighting for a win, the whole news media stops talking about anything else and that is the most importand thing for the whole country it seems.
I know Finnish media follows rally quite closely as well. But how is it in other countries?

The question comes mainly since I have been working abroad and know a lot of people from all across Europe and I basically know nobody who knows anything about rallying besides Estonians and Fins.

Not a single UK person I have spoken to knows who Evans is for instance. Even not the Welsh! (and we both work in and around sports).
I know rallies get a lot of people on the roads but how popular is Thierry Neuville in Belgium? Does the media cover him closely there. Do regular people even know who Seb Ogier is in France and so on?
Really interested in this, since my experience is that we Estonians and Fins are the only nutjobs following rally this closely.

[USER47]

I was recently in Belgium and a friend from there (girl who isn't interested in rallye at all) knew who Neuville was, and I saw his face on some drinks and such, so he probably is quite well known there.