Rally Wrc France-Alsace 2014

[dodge33cymru]

Forget the photos, I'm wondering how the 10+ minutes long amateur clips have disappeared. For me they were the spirit of european events but now we seem to have lost that too. Today a sport without multimedia is doomed.

These clips got me back into rallying last year, there are plenty of them around still, some of which get plenty of hits and views. I'm very grateful to the people who make and post them.

[jonkka]

History of RMC favors asphalt drivers over Nordic ones. Over the history there were 17 Nordic RMC winners, 57 from mainland Europe and 6 from Britain. In the more recent history since 1980 there were 27 asphalt drivers (France, Italy, Spain, Germany) and 8 Nordic ones (Finland only).

Um, four drivers, seven wins? Vatanen 1985, Toivonen 1986, Makinen 1999-2002 and Gronholm 2006.

[Mirek]

No, it's 8 victories for Finns. Hirvonen won IRC edition in 2010

But sorry for the mistake. I meant number of victories, not drivers...

[janvanvurpa]

Not necessarely in Sweden, I think. However Swedish Television SVT covers WRC, but RX could give him the extra boost. Or he just had the opportunity from Mattias Ekström and gave it a go!

Rallycross does fit the TV mentality better...coupla minute heats, action and drama frequently--from drivers crashing into eachother...so something for the talking (air) heads to talk about...
I hope Tideman doesn get waylaid into the "Made for TV" thing we have over here the call "Globular Wawwy Cwoss" or Global of some nonsense... Its the Ken Block Show..
They just had a round only 50km from downtown..

Only way I know was 2 weeks after clearing the junk email folder there was a spam email..

No other notice that a round was next door prqactically, on neither of our National forums.
Secret.
Made for TV

[306 Cosworth]

Forget the photos, I'm wondering how the 10+ minutes long amateur clips have disappeared. For me they were the spirit of european events but now we seem to have lost that too. Today a sport without multimedia is doomed.

I do shorter videos 5-6 minutes mainly because I fear people will lose interest/get bored, so it's best to keep it short and sweet and entertaining. Maybe I will post a longer video from Rally GB.

My Sardinia video is just over 6 minutes - http://youtu.be/SITPDjStglM

[MK2 BDG]

I noticed the Arab drivers on Rally Cyprus recently were taking huge cuts and nothing wad said...

As for France, those markers dont look right at all.. hay bails with metal inside would be better.

Would take months to set them all out,

There were very few in 2010, and the event was more like the mud in Wales,, cutting everywhere,, It vastly improved in 2011, but they used steel road pins, with marker the size of playing cards on top, this was down right dangerous , we had one enter the car under my seat !!!

The markers use in the last couple of years, do get hit by the crews in front, and are left flat, some in the middle of the road,
If they weren't used, i would not enter the event, On the Sunday stages this year, there were very few of these marker/signs used

[Andre Oliveira]

More photos here

[dodge33cymru]

Awesome supt of the Porsche. Thanks for the video 306 Cosworth, will check out your channel in depth.

[nafpaktos]

It is worth to watch it.lot of risks!!!amazing drive.hope he will get a chance in the near future.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=y...&v=bm8nuvP_8Iw

[N.O.T]

A chance in what ??? Sousa is a respectable tourist nothing more...