[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[Mirek]

In that case their employer, i.e. promotor does a pretty bad job.

[stefanvv]

There is no argument against that.

[Hartusvuori]

I don't think it's so hard to find spectacular places when You have gazillon amateur videos from catching perfect action and only very few of those guys do some recce. The stages are largely same year by year and it doesn't take weeks to be prepared. Study some stage maps, aerial maps on the internet, sometimes google street view, videos and onboards from previous years and You can very well be successful - without any recce and without being a pro.

It'd be easier just to recce the stages than to do all the preparation work you mentioned 😀

[Lousada]

"The WRC TV crew has to use a tripod to make the footage steady enough for TV.

Many big bucks hollywood movies use 'shaky' camera footage to convey action. With a handheld camera you get more of a sensation of actually being there. When you are spectating a rally you are not as steady as a tripod, you shiver a bit in anticipation and then gasp when the car passes The footage should convey that feeling.

They also have to have a spot where their advertising banners can be seen and sometimes a place slow enough for sponsors on cars to be seen. "

They don't 'have to have' a spot near the advertising banners, thats just what they do because they are lazy and stupid. Plenty of studies in all sorts of sports show that trackside advertising is barely noticed by tv-viewers. This can be deduced even with common sense: you watch a rally program to look at the cars, not to read the advertising.

Sponsors pay for our and the drivers enjoyment so we can’t forget them.

Yes of course, but I can think of 100 more effective ways to bring a sponsors logo to the viewers than roadside advertising banners on lame stretches of a rally stage.

[rallyfiend]

Yes of course, but I can think of 100 more effective ways to bring a sponsors logo to the viewers than roadside advertising banners on lame stretches of a rally stage.[/QUOTE]

100? Impressive.

Name 10.

Keeping in mind the 'undue prominence' laws that exist in many countries that I'm sure you've fully aware of....

[Mirek]

It'd be easier just to recce the stages than to do all the preparation work you mentioned ��

Of course, if You can

[GigiGalliNo1]

Corsica signs 3 year deal with new title sponsor

[EstWRC]

Bit of a slow news period at the moment but a couple of bits out of Motorsport News today:

WRC2 regs will be tweaked next year, mandating that all the registered drivers much enter and face off against each other at three selected rounds. So the FIA will pick three rallies which must count towards everyone's championship. They want to stop the idea of competitors avoiding each other and tactically selecting events.


It also appears like we'll have a running order solution sorted by the end of this month.
Most likely candidate - D1: Championship order / D2: Reversed championship order / D3: Reversed rally order
Other rumoured alternative - D1: Championship order / D2: Reversed championship order / D3: Reversed championship order


Neither are my favoured solution but I guess they've done it to try and remove any potential road order tactics. I'm a bit past caring now to be honest.

this story is now also in autosport, including some news about M-sport too http://www.autosport.com/news/report...-2017-wrc-spec

[Simmi]

this story is now also in autosport, including some news about M-sport too http://www.autosport.com/news/report...-2017-wrc-spec

Cool. Looking at the car testing in Portugal it does seem to be slightly different. Some small tweaks such as rear wing, bonnet vents - but to say it bears little resemblance to the established test car is wrong. Either that's not the full 2017 spec car testing today, or FXD oversold the changes.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Breen warms-up for Corsica on the Rally Isle of Man...

http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/septe...9--12-12-.html