Quote Originally Posted by liposh View Post
I have been thinking a little bit and find out the ERC in 2016 returned into the look from days before merging with IRC. Anything from old good IRC didn´t remain, which is sad, because I thought the potential was/is bigger. Do you remember the days when Quesnel wanted to use his red army against green army of Skoda? Or Monte Carlo 2011? And now we have got few spectacular drivers like Consani, but Peugeot and Skoda etc. choose WRC2. Neither I nor Pluto understand it (because medial coverage of WRC2 is awful) but they did so. And there has to be some racional reason. Whatever it is, Eurosport is responsible for that.
10 likes if I could!

Yes, any sign of influence of old IRC in new ERC seems to be gone by now.

And yes, it´s the fault of Eurosport. Some 20 minutes of rallying at midnight is not a real TV-coverage.