2016 News and Results

RS · 31st January 2016, 18:17

Originally Posted by PLuto

No, this will not help. It is easy, manufacturers are not interested in it now...

But why not, when they were interested in IRC?

Lack of live tv? Lack of prestigious events like Monte, Safari, Sanremo, Corsica?

**Mirek** · 31st January 2016, 19:43

Originally Posted by PLuto

No, this will not help. It is easy, manufacturers are not interested in it now...

The correct question to ask is why they are not interested. You can't just say that it's something Eurosport can't affect. It's their job to promote the series. They are the promoter. Sadly they seem to lost the interest as well.

**106 sport** · 3rd February 2016, 19:35

Originally Posted by garais22

Big plans for SRT rally team. They are planing to run with two teams - SRT (Three R2 cars) and Skoda Baltic Motorsport (Thre Skoda Fabia R5)
http://www.go4speed.lv/lv/news/erc/5...ivam-komandam/

what did happen with this program?

**RICARDO75** · 3rd February 2016, 19:44

Originally Posted by 106 sport

what did happen with this program?

Blūms and Gryazin on JERC and Sirmacis on gravel rallies. No Canarias for them

**RICARDO75** · 3rd February 2016, 19:56

Originally Posted by sindroms

Karl Martin Volver will do all ERC tarmac rounds + Estonia round on Peugeot R2. It's all ok with his skills on gravel so they decided to gain experience on tarmac for 2017 season (full season in plans).

Amazing how a 16-year-old boy already knows everything about gravel stages, without having competed outside Latvia or Estonia!

**106 sport** · 3rd February 2016, 20:08

Originally Posted by RICARDO75

Blūms and Gryazin on JERC and Sirmacis on gravel rallies. No Canarias for them

Ohhh...It is a pitty

**Jarek Z** · 9th February 2016, 17:45

This new car looks nice, doesn't it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=025yXZVNG4g

**marcosg** · 9th February 2016, 18:09

Originally Posted by Mirek

The correct question to ask is why they are not interested. You can't just say that it's something Eurosport can't affect. It's their job to promote the series. They are the promoter. Sadly they seem to lost the interest as well.

the fact that r5 cars are cheaper to use and have no competition in wrc2 made car manufacturers turn to a series that will have a bigger audience (tv, spectators, drivers, private teams, ...)

citroen is even promoting a r5 trophy...

**Mirek** · 9th February 2016, 18:45

I'm quite sure that IRC used to have far bigger audience and TV space than SWRC or WRC2 (for example here in CZ the mass media coverage of WRC2 is zero). We can see literally an explosion of R5 cars everywhere (British and Portuguese championship as best examples) so why they can't bring more competitors in ERC? For me really the only answer is that they don't care anymore.

**marcosg** · 9th February 2016, 19:22

Originally Posted by Mirek

I'm quite sure that IRC used to have far bigger audience and TV space than SWRC or WRC2 (for example here in CZ the mass media coverage of WRC2 is zero). We can see literally an explosion of R5 cars everywhere (British and Portuguese championship as best examples) so why they can't bring more competitors in ERC? For me really the only answer is that they don't care anymore.

I think its just because wrc2 is the big championship for privateers nowadays and finally there is no unfair competition from money-drivers with rrc cars...

every driver dreams of the world championship, not the european... and now wrc2 is affordable... the explosion of r5 cars in national championships is because of that, affordability...

it would take an enourmous effort for erc to fight wrc2 notoriety, even with the poor coverage wrc2 is getting from wrc promoters