[WRC] 86th Rallye Monte-Carlo 2018 (Jan 22-28)

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Toyota has made white stripes to Tänak's mirrors but i think it isnt enough. When watching the vids of shakedown yesterday then it is basically impossible to make a difference between the Toyota drivers.

I agree... and although he numbers on the side windows and windscreens are bigger they are still hard to read as a car flashes past the camera.

Ogier and Evans' identical liveries dont help me.

[racerx1979]

The stripes easily add 5 hp..

[PLuto]

There is a clear announcement what is shown, so all the whining ist just useless.
We all already know that you have some WRC dislike

It has nothing to "WRC dislike". There is start of the new season, everybody is hungry for rally after long break. Yesterday lot of people were trying to follow shakedown, today lot of people were searching for some stream from ceremonial start in Monaco. And what wrc.com or wrc+ did? Almost nothing. Despite it had great potential to make people more interesting and to make bigger promotion for wrc+

[OHL]

It has nothing to "WRC dislike". There is start of the new season, everybody is hungry for rally after long break. Yesterday lot of people were trying to follow shakedown, today lot of people were searching for some stream from ceremonial start in Monaco. And what wrc.com or wrc+ did? Almost nothing. Despite it had great potential to make people more interesting and to make bigger promotion for wrc+

If this wasn't the WRC+ All Live team's first time out and there weren't two stages, a long way away, immediately following the ceremonial start, they probably would have covered the start. Let's watch tonight and see how it goes.

[seb_sh]

Indeed it's a wasted opportunity in my opinion. All the hype and excitement about the new season was wasted instead of taken advantage of. You have to wonder if it was a logistic issue that they could not be ready with coverage for shakedown and the start or they simply thought people wouldn't be interested.

If you look at F1 they milk the preseason as much as they can to keep people engaged. Each car launch is an event and even preseason testing gets covered. Sure F1 has way more reach but ignoring the first official outing of the new season (Monte shakedown) and the ceremonial start won't help things. It would have been a perfect opportunity to do a relaxed preview (during shakedown) where you could see the cars but the commentators could talk in a more relaxed manner, maybe they could tell us what town Kris Meeke is from! They could show those "what you had for breakfast" interviews during the ceremonial start and leave just racing for the real stages. But no, they ignored it.

[Salist]

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Maybe being Monaco it has some special ban on coverage in the Principality and only allows it for local TV ?

All of the actual stages are in France so no problem there..

[Salist]

The Rally Guru's joke. :-)

[steve.mandzij]

Is anybody else listening to WRC radio? I just tuned for the end of Latvala's interview

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[EstWRC]

Info by @FlorianBernardi #WRC #RallyeMonteCarlo opener

ES1: moisture initially, then dry up to the Col de Fontbelle. 2.4 km of ice at this place. Descent to the wet finish.

ES2: Many wet parts. 2nd half of special with a bit of gravette.