2016 BRC (British Rally Championship)

[HaCo]

I am looking forward to this championship. I just hope they have some coverage on YouTube or other internet channel.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

BRC tv deal done with Channel 4.

Euan Thorburn to enter in a Peugeot 208 T16.

[noel157]

Great news about the championship but FFS, MN sucking the blood out of it all. Every minute a stupid tweet, big news, all will be revealed, guess who is entering.....Time to unfollow them, used to a highly thought of publication, gone to hell with all this nonsense.

A tweet a minute..

[MrJan]

Seems to be lots of positives, which can only be good. I'm more pleased about the Ch4 coverage than BTSport, who seem to use rallying as 'filler'.

The problem being that it'll be tucked away in the Saturday morning schedule, usually around 7:30. At least BT might be showing it at a proper time of day...although I won't hold my breath.

Anderson now confirmed too, he's impressed me in that aging Evo (which was a pup when it was new) against more modern machinery, will be interesting to see how he goes with something a bit closer to what his competitors are driving.

Looking forward to the championship now, think that they're heading the right direction with the regs and attracting some decent names from the national championships. Far better than the mockery it had become a few years ago...well, pretty much since they went to Group N regs.

[Jack4688`]

Great news about the championship but FFS, MN sucking the blood out of it all. Every minute a stupid tweet, big news, all will be revealed, guess who is entering.....Time to unfollow them, used to a highly thought of publication, gone to hell with all this nonsense.

A tweet a minute..

Motorsport News was one of the first things I followed when I started using twitter properly, instead of just using it to complain to my utilities providers , I've unfollowed them for a while since. Unfortunately this sort of media outlet is where a great deal of new and young support could be drummed up from, but they're making a hash of it - and by that I mean the BRC-MN alliance that tweets a billion things a day and retweets each other's insignificant 'news'.

However, on the news itself, Channel 4 seems like a good result. They've taken up F1 from BBC from this year so maybe they're dead serious about motorsport and their BRC coverage will be at a sociable hour and within 24 hrs of the rally finish (I hope). It also struck me reading Motorsport News this aft just how many stories were about someone confirming a full season in an R5 car which can only be good news. It might be Fiesta-heavy but at least there's two Skodas and a Peugeot and even still a S2000 screamer!

[MrJan]

They've taken up F1 from BBC from this year so maybe they're dead serious about motorsport and their BRC coverage will be at a sociable hour and within 24 hrs of the rally finish (I hope).

Unlikely, it said in the article on the BRC site "each BRC round will enjoy a half- hour slot on Channel 4 as part of the channel’s weekend morning sports programming". So that means in with the racing, TransWorld Sport, British GTs and whatever else they show before 8am on a Saturday. Effectively it's in the same slot it used to have, which will be fine if it means that the production is put together well. One of the things I hate about even the WRC rushing to get highlights out quickly is that everything's rushed and ends up suffering.

[Jack4688`]

I didn't notice it mention the word "morning" That's crap, I'll just keep logging in to my Dad's BTSport account to watch it online like I do with WRC

[Fast Eddie WRC]

On Ch4 it's not on in a good time-slot, so it wont attract the average viewer that could come across it accidentally. Therefore little chance of creating some new rally fans then.

But at least its on somewhere and most of us have the facility to record it and watch when we want to...

The BT deal sounds much better: 'BT Sport viewers will be treated to an extended 60-minute programme with added coverage of the DMACK Junior BRC title battle.'

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Marty McCormack is the latest man to sign up for the BRC... looks like he's swapped his Skoda S2000 for a Fiesta R5.



Marty McCormack ‏@martymccormack
We're going to tackle the @MSA_BRC in two TigerRisk cars with @SlaughterRally

[Jack4688`]

Good to see him in an R5 in the BRC. When he won that 2WD trophy or whatever it was the last year that 4WD cars were allowed to win the title I was very impressed with him and thought it was a shame he didn't really seem to get the break he deserved after that.