Wrc+

**itix** · 25th August 2015, 09:21

Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

They definately need to show more proper stages... the spectator stages are ok for those attending live but they are rubbish on TV and they dont give a correct image of real rallying.

Couldn't agree more, but yet another show of the promoter's laziness. They pick the shortest stage to cover so that they don't have to bring so much camera equipment and not so many people... which really doesn't make sense in my mind because they already have the people and the equipment there so it shouldn't be impossible to cover also a long stage. Sure, you have to cover many cars running at the same time but I really can't see the reason for all this laziness.

One would expect that you take a job at the promoter for the love of the sport, in which case trotting around in bushes and undergrowth to get to stages should not be new to you. It seems instead that they took it for the love of sitting around and scratching their asses.

**AndyRAC** · 25th August 2015, 11:46

No promoter does it for the love of the sport; they’re in it to make money. Do as little for maximum return. Most promoters in motorsport just sell TV rights…..they do very little promotion. And then wonder why more people aren’t watching. Hmm…

**AL14** · 10th September 2015, 23:58

Rally Australia is not yet started and according to live maps the first in championship ranking Neuville has already started, first on the road, 12 minutes ago. Followed by runner up Evans, then Meeke and others in complete nonsense order.

I'm losing my hope to see this thing working decently.

EDIT: They fixed it now.

**stefanvv** · 11th September 2015, 00:08

how's that for a photo?

**dodge33cymru** · 12th September 2015, 20:00

A couple of one month WRC+ promo codes below if anyone wants them. I can't guarantee they'll work but it says they're eligible until the end of the year:

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I got them from VW's Twitter but both went into my spam box and just found them.

**N.O.T** · 12th September 2015, 21:21

Originally Posted by stefanvv

how's that for a photo?

crap crop rather than a photo.

**tc10a** · 30th September 2015, 19:04

Having in this Weekends Tour de Corse again only the powerstage live at WRC+ makes it a joke.
At least one stage per day should be mandatory for every wrc Event in 2016!

**rallyace** · 30th September 2015, 19:45

Originally Posted by tc10a

Having in this Weekends Tour de Corse again only the powerstage live at WRC+ makes it a joke.
At least one stage per day should be mandatory for every wrc Event in 2016!

I would love to be able to select and watch live onboards from each stage (or at least a few select ones). That would put a shadow over the fact that only one SS is broadcast live from this week's event.

Could someone explain the difficulty of this? Broadcasting live on WRC+ from perhaps 4 or 5 select onboard cameras on a handful of select stages would be much appreciated by the fans.

**itix** · 1st October 2015, 01:30

Originally Posted by rallyace

I would love to be able to select and watch live onboards from each stage (or at least a few select ones). That would put a shadow over the fact that only one SS is broadcast live from this week's event.

Could someone explain the difficulty of this? Broadcasting live on WRC+ from perhaps 4 or 5 select onboard cameras on a handful of select stages would be much appreciated by the fans.

THIS ^

The camera is there and require no personnel to handle it, and I can't see that the technology will be massively difficult to implement. They have it in many other motor sports, and ok, that this is on a short range merry-go-round track where cars do the same 1 - 20 bends for hours but I can't see why you can't broadcast onboard imagery from a stage with all the 4G and whatnot these days!

**litifeta** · 1st October 2015, 06:28

trying to upload from a camera in a car to a distant mobile tower is very problematic. For the images to be usable they need to be of a sufficient size which creates a huge need for bandwidth.