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Thread: WRC future
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3rd December 2020, 16:56 #1061
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Hard to agree with you on that one. Many sports can be seen as entertainment once they are mostly a game, but Rally, and motorsport in general, it’s much more than that. Rally drivers don’t ‘play’, they live a true risk by challenging the most demanding roads on powerfull machines that can become unpredictable at any second. I believe it’s that ‘larger than life’ element of Rally that make us following it in the media and, every possible time, to travel hundreds of kms and spend several days under all sorts of weather to watch it.
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3rd December 2020, 17:27 #1062
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yeah. agreed. (I think most people here think the same)
then take away the fanboy glasses and take a step back. It is a sport. the same as a game in the end. especially for non-fan. i guess here we are trying to be less fans and more pragmatic, to forecast the future as realistically as possible.
i guess a chess player, a soccer fan, everyone! with a true passion can give you a million words story about how romantic and best-in-the-world his passion is. i think we are not comparing passions here...
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3rd December 2020, 17:41 #1063
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I'm not familiar with other motorsports very much, but at least rallying differs from most conventional sports by being very expensive to run, and the money to run the sport on professional level comes from the marketing budgets of car manufacturers. It's entertainment for sure, but also marketing, very much, more than just the external sponsors like in most sports.
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3rd December 2020, 17:50 #1064
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3rd December 2020, 18:06 #1065
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really? having a title as "Wrc future?" I was thinking we were talking about this.
Rally as entertainment argument is just a good part of it, exactly as trying to forecast which direction it will take. I agree that a romantic depiction of braveness is just out of focus.
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3rd December 2020, 18:50 #1066
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Maybe you’ve been distracted but this forum is an open debate space and posts don’t need to strictly respect the thread title.
Anyway, once you’re mentioning it, probably what’s missing in this sport promotion is a better way to show that ‘romantic depiction of braveness’, because it’s real and makes thousands going to rally stages, at least to proper ones.Rally addict since 1982
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3rd December 2020, 18:57 #1067
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3rd December 2020, 19:31 #1068
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Funny you say this having said that just a few lines above: "Sorry mate; hard to follow you. The post is about considering Rally mainly as an entertainment, or not. It has nothing to do with forecasting its future or comparing fans passion. For gods sake."
so can we speak freely, or we have to stick to the post? I'm more confused than distracted...
Let's go on with the real topic: i agree with the post above that is enough a point to continue the discussion. Btw this storytelling of braveness and romanticism fails to represent todays reality, as the new main actor of rallying wants to show something different. Maybe we fan would love that, but manus want to speak to a generic and casual attendee, the one that buys their cars.
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3rd December 2020, 19:58 #1069
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4th December 2020, 15:03 #1070
TBH I dont get why some places have anti-cut devices when other identical kind of places allow huge cutting and the throwing of dirt all over the road.
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