2016 News and Results

[Mirek]

Ypres organizers are in a strong position and therefore can speak their mind.

[RS]

Ypres Rally not happy with the current ERC...

http://www.autosport.com/news/report...goes-backwards

Maybe they are looking for a discount on their fee?

Unless they can get a place in WRC, leaving ERC would only mean less entries, less tv and less spectators too.

I don't blame Eurosport for the loss of Skoda. WRC2 makes no commercial sense vs. ERC.

[Mirek]

I don't blame Eurosport for the loss of Skoda. WRC2 makes no commercial sense vs. ERC.

I do blame them. Loosing works teams certainly isn't any management achievement if You ask me.

[rallyfiend]

I don't blame Eurosport for the loss of Skoda. WRC2 makes no commercial sense vs. ERC.

So who do you blame?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Ypres organizers are in a strong position..

In what way ?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

So who do you blame?

Skoda ? They achieved all they could in the ERC and so decided to try WRC.

[Mirek]

In what way ?

In every way. In their position in the championship and in the people who stay behind the event. They even decided to run mixed competitive field of ERC and national competitors and FIA agreed. That's hard to imagine for most of the other events.

Skoda ? They achieved all they could in the ERC and so decided to try WRC.

Think about what is a job description of the promoter.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

In every way. In their position in the championship and in the people who stay behind the event. They even decided to run mixed competitive field of ERC and national competitors and FIA agreed. That's hard to imagine for most of the other events.


Think about what is a job description of the promoter.

So do Ypres think they are more important than the whole ERC and think they can demand what the ERC should be ? What would Ypres do if the ERC dropped them, how would this be better ? Just being a round of the Belgian Championship ?

The other rallies havent complained anything like this... and ones like the Circuit of Ireland seemed more than happy.

As for the Promoter, what were they supposed to do to persuade Skoda to stay ?

[AndyRAC]

The Promoter could, well, actually, do their job; Promote the ERC properly! The ERC doesn't seem to be going anywhere at the moment.

[rallyfiend]

As for the Promoter, what were they supposed to do to persuade Skoda to stay ?

Gee, anything. They lost both Skoda and Peugeot to WRC2 in one hit.

Perhaps they could ask WRC Promoter for advice! And that's not a sentence that's written on this forum very much...