2017 News and results

[Mirek]

For God's sake not that.

[kure91]

Jack4688, who do you think would care about it? TBH, without checking result sites, I´m unable to quickly remember even ERT 2016 winner, not to speak about zones

[Reis Eduardo]

The ERT in recent years has been a major failure and the FIA with the ERT by zones that invented for 2016 only came to worsen.

[Jack4688`]

Jack4688, who do you think would care about it? TBH, without checking result sites, I´m unable to quickly remember even ERT 2016 winner, not to speak about zones

That isn't the point I was making. ERT is unknown because no one cares about a sub-ERC championship created for god knows what reason and with zero promotion

[WUff1]

I don't know if it was posted here already or not. I found an interview with Alain Penasse, one of th organizers of Ypres Rally, in which he explains why they don't want to be in the ERC anymore.

Some important fragments:
"(...) there are too many rallies on the islands which make it very difficult for a privateer team to cope with because of the huge cost and workload of that."
(...)
“We have to get more centralised rallies, maybe one in England, one in France, one in Belgium and maybe one in Greece or one in Eastern Europe, but not like it is now."

“The championship is too much spread out. It is more complicated logistically to do European championship than to do European rounds in the World Championship, in fact. You have to go to Azores, to Grand Canarias, you have to go to Cyprus, as well as going to Greece.”

More details at http://www.rallysportmag.com.au/home...happy-with-erc

Well, all this doesn´t really change in 2017. ERC comes to European mainland firstly after 4 rallies, 5 out of 8 are in the peripheral area of Europe, Western Europe is totally ignored.

[Mirek]

Czech driver Karel Kupec announced to do the complete JERC.

[Munkvy]

Czech driver Karel Kupec announced to do the complete JERC.

Is that a good or bad thing...?

[Mirek]

Is a new driver commited for full season a bad thing? He has very little experience but looks promissing.

[Rally Power]

Well, all this doesn´t really change in 2017. ERC comes to European mainland firstly after 4 rallies, 5 out of 8 are in the peripheral area of Europe, Western Europe is totally ignored.

Ok WUF, the geo distribution may not be the best one, but that doesn’t mean Penasse is right on blaming island events for ERC troubles. Açores has become the most iconic ERC rally (I imagine he got mad about it…) and Cyprus is an ERC classic. For sure we’ll miss Ireland (that can be back one of this days) and an event in France or Italy, but the calendar is not that bad and the cut to 8 events was a good move.

[Mirek]

The island events are a trouble for most of the teams. That is a fact.