Quote Originally Posted by janvanvurpa View Post
That last bit is kinda of hard to swallow..espeically when you have F-cup which has such good drivers---and dozens of them---scores of them..
In all of "not even starting to develop country' USA with maybe 300-320 total drivers from a population of 320 million, the best USA can do in the best car a guy can buy (because to get better you will not buy the car, they give you the car) is slower than your best F-cup guys.

If Finland has does anything wrong in rally, they made the same mistake as everybody else and listened to marketing and promotion guys and believed them when they said promotion is the key to happiness..

Competition is the key...frequent, hard challenging, close competition...
Nowadays F-cup is like a shadow comparing to the glory days... And the level of competition is...hmm...well, few champions of the F-cup have said that they realized the difference of driving fast and "driving fast" when they changed to the rallies with the pace notes. It's a little bit different story to drive rally at the blind event when you know the road and the others don't. That's maybe one big issue for the Finns that most of the rallies are blind events and many of the drivers thinks that the pace notes are too difficult for them and that's why they prefer blind events.