[WRC] News & Rumours 2019

[Allez Andruet]

But I think we will never get a chance to have a WRC rally in Estonia. As I understood Oliver Ciesla said quite clearly that the plan is to expabd outside of Europe.

It doesn't mean the European rounds would be set in stone.

[tommeke_B]

I bet that in a few years we'll see Poland back, or Estonia in, at the cost of Tour de Corse, Sardinia and/or Germany.

[Tarmop]

Well, all the manuf. present with at least one car (could be more) is quite a statement if the event succeeds and teams are happy, last year they were...

Bot what else is great from that news, is that nobody wants to shorten the events anymore by day or half a day.

[AnttiL]

https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...-fan-behaviour

FIA tries to stop badly behaving spectators. One solution is to issue a virtual chicane on a location where spectators are in a dangerous place. So either you back off or see the cars at walking speed...and the stage doesn't have to be canceled, which is always unfair to the spectators who are in a safe place.

[tommeke_B]

If they use the same standards everywhere, we could see a very slow Monte Carlo next year...

[pantealex]

Means at least 1 car from each team.

What I heard in Sweden was not like that, many teams are again considering Autoglym rally in Finland but we will see...

[tommeke_B]

Why not both?

[AnttiL]

Why not both?

Can’t do two rallies in one weekend

[tommeke_B]

Can’t do two rallies in one weekend

Yes, but they're not in one weekend.

[AnttiL]

Autoglym 12-13th July
Rally Estonia 12-14th July