[WRC] News & Rumours 2018

[stefanvv]

Your comment does not make much sense, sorry.

It did when I wrote it, but now not so sure, had to read it again what did I wrote.

I would say sound is a factor on the cars being extreme. The nº1 thing that stucks with friends I take to watch rallys is sound, after that speed, they are always impressed and excited by how loud some of the cars are.

I'm sure You (and friend) do, and I completely understand it. That was not what my post was about. The promoter doesn't care for You and friends going to some event to enjoy the sound, they care for the number of online/TV viewers, hence the manufacturer interest, hence the investment in the sport, and so on, and so on.

The only real problem with the WRC nowadays is lack of competition and lack of diversity of nationalities, it is very hard to conquer all markets when you have only a french and a Belgium in the fight. Look what Hamilton has done to the popularity of F1 in the UK.

I'm not sure where You're going from here, it looks like the problem is the lack of UK driver on top of the competition. Sorry, I'm far-far away from UK, can't tell. But for the "competitiveness" argument I have to disagree completely.

No matter how hard it is to manufacteurs and promoters, they will always have to catter to the hardcore fans also, after all it is them spending 1000 plus € to attend several events around the World

In my point of view hardcore fan will always be such and go watch rallies, just because of the sport, not for some details. And I'm not sure how the sport promotion wins from being 500 people visiting each WRC event, or 500 000 people. For sure the host countries win from that, but there are already enough candidate events to be in WRC calendar.

My 2 cents, not pretending for 100% accuracy.