[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[Mirek]

Yawn.........I skip watching every tarmac rally unless it is really wet or snowy. They used to be good to watch in the 90's. The cars moved around a lot more.

I'm from an asphalt country (I think we have one of those rather spectacular asphalt stages) and in my experience very wet rallies are the most boring of all. Only very very few drivers show something more than maximum afford on effectiveness there. The most spectacular asphalt surface for me is a mix of dry with some mud and wet patches like in the morning after an overnight rain. Anyway asphalt rallies can be very spectacular but it's much harder to find the right places and it's really easy to be disappointed and bored.

Cars are working too perfectly on tarmac, especially WRC. I must say that watching turbocars on tarmac is not so beautiful, especially now with limited number of tyres. But watching S2000 cars with good drivers, when they must stay all the time in high revs, it was also nice. And also drivers with R5 are not so bad to watch... Maybe it is also about the events and their route...

I don't agree about R5. They are mostly very boring. S2000 were a nice exception which is now disappearing...