[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[EightGear]

Manufactures rather have a driver from a country were they can sell a lot of cars. The dutch car market is very bad. Also sponsership and budget from dutch sponsors is a nogo.

So Finland has a big car market? Or Belgium? Or New Zealand? Or Ireland?

Agree about the money though. All motorsport sponsorship is being spent on circuit racing.

[Jack4688`]

Correct! I really wish Capito would just fuck off. What the WRC needs is more manufacturer teams. Mitsubishi, Subaru, Toyota, Ford, where are you? That being said, I would rather have a WRC without VW, than a WRC with VW and this kind of arcade-game gimmicky shit, which would totally destroy the fabric of the sport.

Hahaha that couldn't be worded better! Now we just need some journo to tell him that.

I agree about VW - if they want this then they should create a new sport, perhaps a sprint rally championship, instead of trying to feck about with a sport that can work well with GOOD PROMOTION. Instead we have WRC Promoter who, I'm guessing, is filled top-down with completely incompetent employees. That Ciesla fella especially.

Fixing (and by that I mean ruining) things that aren't broken are not going to help the WRC. Incidentally that goes for F1 too.

[AndyRAC]

Exactly, if they want more viewing figures, ruining the sport won't get them: doing something about it will.

Put the coverage online, for free, like SRO do with their GT series. WRC+ is a start, but that should be the premium service.

Make it available for free for a year and see if those figures improve. It will do a lot more for the sport than changing the rules and still making it impossible to watch.

VW complain about low viewing figures, but RedBull sell the rights to PayTV - with low viewing figures. Oh, what a shock...
RedBull have done what lots of others promoters have done; sell TV rights, and do very little promotion. Niche Motorsport series dont help themselves by selling to PayTV. You will never grow by doing that. Get events visiting major towns/ cities and promote; the crowds will come out. As seen from tonight.

[Formaldehyde]

"At the end of 2015, we will look at the [television viewing] figures," he said.

"We will see how they improve from 2014 and then take a decision whether to stay in the WRC or to go out at the end of 2016 based on these figures.

"But I don't see how 2015 can be any better than 2014 now; if a broadcaster has not been interested up until this point, I don't see how we can convince them now.

"The return on investment is not sustainable."

lol. Capito sounds like a spoiled child having a tantrum. Remember when you were a child, and you were playing football or whatever with your friends? Someone would make fun of the kid who owned the ball, and he would go home crying and take the ball away with him because he didn't want their friends to have fun if they were not going to treat him like a special star. We all had a friend like this. Capito is threatening to do the exact same thing. Good riddance. Like someone else said... I'd rather have no VW than VW killing the sport.

[Eli]

i hope we won't see VW Motorsport in the WRC after 2016, honestly i prefer to see latvala in toyota, Ogier-don't care about him and mikkelsen alongside Latvala..

[Mintexmemory]

i hope we won't see VW Motorsport in the WRC after 2016, honestly i prefer to see latvala in toyota, Ogier-don't care about him and mikkelsen alongside Latvala..

Why on earth would Toyota not want the 4 time WDC at the end of 2016? The only decision is for Latvala to transfer early for the development year, much depends how close he is to Ogier next season. (How's that for provocative?)

[Eli]

well if Latvala wants a chance in becoming World champion he needs to do it with toyota

[makinen_fan]

Info about Dmack challenge for 2015
http://www.irallylive.com/ir_news.htm?00007571

Interesting that a 1L 3cylinder turbocharged Fiesta will be used

[Jack4688`]

Does that need to be homologated or does it not matter as, although appearing in the WRC, it is for a one-make championship?

[pantealex]

Does that need to be homologated or does it not matter as, although appearing in the WRC, it is for a one-make championship?

it was homologated 1 year ago (R2T)