[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[Barreis]

Hahahahahah He can start the season after first three rounds and the result will be the same...
http://classic.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/124571

[Eli]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report...calendar-slots 13!!! Rotation system, here we go again...

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[GigiGalliNo1]

Yes!!

[Eli]

It didn't say they'll use the rotation system, I'm just guessing that if 13 new events want to come in and the FIA and WRC promoter wants them also they'll have to rotate...

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[AL14]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report...calendar-slots 13!!! Rotation system, here we go again...

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I think this is a very good news. Promoter should take advantage of such increasing of interest towards WRC (and of having 5 manufacturers fighting each other) to increase the standards of its product and services, and improving also marketing and communications.

[seb_sh]

They mention 4 things:
- rallies with more money
- more global calendar
- adding a rough event
- they cannot go over 14 events (hopefully they remember what happened last time...)

The first two probably means dropping a couple struggling european rallies or putting them on rotation and adding rallies elsewhere. Maybe Sweden, Poland or France? GB? Add Canada as a winter rally that can safely deliver snow? Turkey, Jordan or Abu Dhabi as a rough gravel event or even India?

Rotation as has been discussed doesn't work well for the european organisers. Maybe it could work for these new "rich" events where someone else pays for the marketing value so they don't actually have to be sustainable. Or maybe detach organisation from country and have the same organisers do the rally each year but change country.

New Zealand would be cool to have back, it's one of my favourite rallies.

[Jack4688`]

"For example, we're missing a really rough rally in the style of the Acropolis or Cyprus - but Turkey fits that bill very well."

So what's wrong with Acropolis then?

[Arnold Triyudho Wardono]

"For example, we're missing a really rough rally in the style of the Acropolis or Cyprus - but Turkey fits that bill very well."

So what's wrong with Acropolis then?

Lack of money..?

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[janvanvurpa]

Add Canada as a winter rally that can safely deliver snow?
New Zealand would be cool to have back, it's one of my favourite rallies.

regrettons ami, Canada--or specifically Ontario and/or Quebec doesn't have the people, the numbers, or the competitors enough to host a WRC..
I have rallied in Canadian Rally Championship inOntario and Quebec--more in Quebec..

They have the enthusiasm, and they MAY have the snow--but no certainty there really---and in Quebec they could have cooperative municipalities and authorities..
But not enough people, not enough "filler" cars, zero homologated cars and really not good enough roads..
many of the roads they can use are giant wide and straight roads....personally i was shocked that i was averaging more that 10% higher average speed in my little 2wd car on clean transparent ICE--with no studs---than on gravel in summer..
I in fact asked in both Ontario and in Quebec why such huge straight roads and was told "all the counties are broke. They have no money to repair the many narrower, curvier fun roads so if there is one simple washout of a single culvert like HERE (and he shows me a map) that means over 100km of good squiggly roads are not available for us."

I even asked if the organisers themselves could organise working detail to go and repair of fix simple washouts so they could get in and get out and they said "No way. Contract agreements means it must be done by county workers"

So forget Canada. Forget USA, too. Same zero homologated cars, almost zero experience organising anything larger than local events...and incompetent sanctioning bodies that know less than zero.

[Rallyper]

MAny countries will not be able to have "fillers" and we´ll have maybe 25 cars on events outside Europe except for one or two countries (Aus and NZ not counted). Problems enough I think.