Quote Originally Posted by AndyRAC View Post
So can someone explain the success of 12/ 24 Hour races; Le Mans, Nurburgring, Spa, Bathurst, Sebring, etc Nobody has thought they are all too long, and should be reduced in distance.....

If you continue to chase the mythical 'casual' fan, we really will end up with a RallyCross extreme version of rallying.....
Just stop this nonsense - they've already sold out for TV....Enough is enough!!
Well, endurance racing is actually realtively easy to produce TV production for. The reason is simply that eventhough the Nordschleife and Circuit de la Sarthe (or any other) are very long, the cars always stay in the same place. So you can just place the cameras and leave them there. I always watch those races cause they're interesting and the live broadcast at least in Europe is very good and extensive.

With the WRC or any rally series for that matter the problem is that you'd need loads more cameras and staff to do much live broadcasting.

I am very much against shortening stages. However, I'd like to see them maybe add one or two more live stages a day if at all possible, but not at the cost of removing the long stages. If anything, add a couple of 10 to 15 km 'broadcastable' stages to the existing ones.