[WRC] News & Rumours 2021

[Paul Hudson]

And Don't Simpson own Stilo !

[bluuford]

Does it grow? I know personally just one guy who follows it and even he uses it more or less as a background for the Sunday after-lunch siesta. When I was younger nearly everyone I knew followed F1. As a child I cried when I watched Senna's accident in Imola 94 live. I used to have three calendars in our children bedroom - one F1, one MotoGP and one WRC. I have never seen that with the children of my friends and relatives in last years. Maybe it's just this country but here the passion is long gone.

To be honest I can't answer your question because I haven't followed F1 for many years.

These statistical growth numbers are always a bit PR driven. No one is telling what kind of methodology they used to count those numbers. I know that one way that has been used is counting the TV channels their show is broadcasted and then they are taking average viewers numbers of these channels from that time-slot when show is live. At the same time, the number of TV channels is growing in many countries, especially in China and India and it is very easy to show growing numbers when you have more channels broadcasting. From my point of view, I haven't seen any races for 10 years already, I have absolutely no interest, I know that there is Ferrari, which is probably the best car and then there is also Mercedes competing, I think also BMW and I am not sure, but I think Red Bull has also one team there.. And I think that among my friends, my knowledge is way above average And my kids? they have no idea what is the meaning of F1, my son thought that it is some kind of perfume and hotel chain

[Sulland]

True
https://www.simpsonraceproducts.com/

amd true
https://www.ompracing.com/en_gb/news_bell2019eng

Same here as with car factories, more amd more end up in the same places. More and more owned by China!

[denkimi]

Genuine question. Why do you think then F1 keeps growing their fanbase while running some city circuits where the air quality concerns are obviously ever present? And to an audience just as environmentally aware?

its just that people who like motorsport are not the ones who complain about it being not green. and the ones complaining about it will never like motorsport.

environmental awareness is just an excuse they can use, just like safety of noise or whatever they can invent. it would be stupid to give in to people who don't care when it's not in front of their own door.

[mknight]

I think in some interviews - just after announcement hybrid era - he told, that FIA expects great interest from manufacturers. Now he is talking about one in 2023. I would read this as: Nobody is interested so far

COVID happened... and the change towards electric accelerated a lot.

Suddenly the 2022 rules kind of fall in between...

[meh]

Suninen: "Home rally ahead soon in the Arctic scenery. ❄ ���� As I don't have a real experience of the rally, we can't really talk about home-field advantage though. Going to be a serious wintry rally challenge!"

https://www.facebook.com/motorsportsuninen

[EstWRC]

Salou remaining the base for Rally Spain http://www.rallyracc.com/2019/en/noticia_2407.html

[cali]

Salou remaining the base for Rally Spain http://www.rallyracc.com/2019/en/noticia_2407.html

Great place! Love it and will try to go back there. So far my favourite rally.

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[EstWRC]

Great place! Love it and will try to go back there. So far my favourite rally.

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i have kinda the same idea, depends on the situation of course, was there in 2017.

[AnttiL]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-h...e-of-wrc-2022/

The 2022 Rally1 cars will likely be slower than current WRC cars.

I know some people will not like this. However, the current cars are already the fastest ever, with not much margin to make them any faster.