[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[nafpaktos]

I like them both,but i believe its easier to find a good place on tarmac.this is because even to a medium corner a rallycar can achieve high speeds which is imposible to gravel.when i go to gravel i try to watch fast technical corners but its not the easiest thing since its difficult to find them.

[nafpaktos]

Of course if i have to choose between an insane gravel corner or an insane tarmac corner i will choose the gravel one.

[dimviii]

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Five days from now, @Opel will announce their motor sport programme details for 2015, 2016 and 2017. Includes news concerning rallying!

[nafpaktos]

I dont have high expectations from opel when we talk about rallying.

[Mirek]

And come on You have to admit that the tarmac you have in Barum Rally and some other Czech rallies is not what most tarmac---or what most people think of when they refer to tarmac events..
You guys are simply insane...

Bellow is the entire 2014 asphalt season of ERC. As ERC is primarily an asphalt championship, tell me please which one of them is that which people usually refer to when speaking about asphalt.

Austria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ANoqgKU4GQ
Northern Ireland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzMcjmYD8cA
Belgium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1IrIMdyjdY
Czech Republic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tls0YxlpfE8
Switzerland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSFM8iCMW7c
Corsica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ZIDe3i_Ro

[janvanvurpa]

Bellow is the entire 2014 asphalt season of ERC. As ERC is primarily an asphalt championship, tell me please which one of them is that which people usually refer to when speaking about asphalt.

Austria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ANoqgKU4GQ
Northern Ireland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzMcjmYD8cA
Belgium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1IrIMdyjdY
Czech Republic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tls0YxlpfE8
Switzerland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSFM8iCMW7c
Corsica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ZIDe3i_Ro

Mirek those links to vids you ported were great.
The roads were narrow, bumpy, curvy, tricky and the guys were on the gas...and you can see ACTION.
Much asphalt is perfectly smooth, the cars don't do anything, they just drive around---until they spin or lock the brakes and slide off..

I like seeing things happen....if I wanted to watch slot cars, I would watch slot cars...
When I say you guys (in Czecho) are crazy I mean that in the good way...as in "Look at dat sheet, mon! Dem guys are crazy (fast, sideways, on the gas)(whatever) But the piccie a few pages back of somebody saying "I like tarmac cars cause they so low " or whatever..look at the photo. It could be a still shot of a car standing still. No action..
Your Czech stuff: cool, cars doing nothing, not cool.
Howzat?

[Mirek]

I just wanted to tell You that it's not a rule that asphalt events are smooth and circuit-like. That's why I put videos from all asphalt events of ERC. If smooth, wide and boring roads were somewhat standard for asphalt events they would have to create a significant part of largely asphalt championship however it's not like that. In my opinion events like Catalunya are more an exception than the rule. Even in Spain there are extremely spectacular asphalt roads. For example in the IRC/ERC there used to be Rallye Principe Asturias which had great stages (Nord-West of Spain). Also most of asphalt rallies in France have nicer stages than Alsace.

[Tom206wrc]

I dont have high expectations from opel when we talk about rallying.

For now they have a few european one-make cups in R2 class

[Francis44]

The truth is gravel looks better on TV and on still images. Plus manufacteurs can say their cars are able to endure very hard gravel roads, that's good for marketing.

[AndyRAC]

The truth is gravel looks better on TV and on still images. Plus manufacteurs can say their cars are able to endure very hard gravel roads, that's good for marketing.

What marketing would that be? Apart from the odd VW advert I can't remember seeing much, certainly not in recent years. I actually thought the Manufacturers wanted more Tarmac as it's more 'road relevant', to use that dreaded phrase.