[WRC] News & Rumours 2021

[AnttiL]

Stop wasting time and money on start of the stage and the stupid thing of show every start of stage when the crew is allready on middle of that stage.

I don't have any confirmation on this but it could well be a part of the team's contract with the WRC promoter, when they pay the entry fee the WRC promoter ensures the car is shown in close up at the start and end of each stage it runs, to get a good view of the sponsor decals on TV (and in turn, the teams use this contract when they are getting sponsors).

Again, I personally agree that these scenes shouldn't be showed so much, but I can understand why they are doing it...

[Franky]

And, of course, there has been a huge mount of money splashing around this year after the cancellation of half the champion ship and the associated revenue losses.....

In Estonia there's a saying that only stupid can't find excuses.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

I don't have any confirmation on this but it could well be a part of the team's contract with the WRC promoter, when they pay the entry fee the WRC promoter ensures the car is shown in close up at the start and end of each stage it runs, to get a good view of the sponsor decals on TV (and in turn, the teams use this contract when they are getting sponsors).

Again, I personally agree that these scenes shouldn't be showed so much, but I can understand why they are doing it...

But most of the time is spent showing a close-up of the driver sitting in the car, not the car itself.

(And then my pet-hate, the comms pointlessly saying 'and there goes xxx into the stage...' so you cant hear the car properly.)

[wyler]

But most of the time is spent showing a close-up of the driver sitting in the car, not the car itself.

(And then my pet-hate, the comms pointlessly saying 'and there goes xxx into the stage...' so you cant hear the car properly.)

yes, and usually that close-up of the driver comprises a hat full of patches, a helmet full of stickers, some glasses, and so on...if at the end of every stage they take a hat first thing is because of the big sun... : )

[Tom K]

Willy Weyens, long time WRC photographer just wrote on his FB that shakedown and last Saturday stage of Monte Carlo have been cancelled... And no spectators during rally, of course.

[AnttiL]

It's weird to cancel the shakedown.

[Tom K]

https://www.dici.fr/actu/2020/12/14/...s-huis-1473028

Some local website

[masa90]

https://www.dici.fr/actu/2020/12/14/...s-huis-1473028

Some local website

What does it say in English?

[EstWRC]

what already was said here, that no public is allowed and shakedown is cancelled but with the shakedown i understand it that way that the current planned shakedown in Gap is cancelled.

we will see, i doubt they will run it without shakedown.

[Eli]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/covid...21-wrc-season/ Nothing new here, now just Dirtfish joining the band wagon.