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Thread: [WRC] News & Rumours 2019
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15th January 2019, 00:32 #1151
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I kind of agree with this in "sterile" sporting point of view where you count only the seconds, but.... rallies has still its unique characteristics - snow and ice on Monte Carlo, forest fast and flowing snow stages in Sweden, high altitude gravel stages in Mexico and so on. Even in Europe solely You can have various and unique events. It doesn't need to travel to each corner of the Earth to be "World Championship", but the more, the better, and surely the rest of the World has something to offer. True rally fans would recognize this, not so sure sure with "the general public".
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15th January 2019, 06:38 #1152
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15th January 2019, 08:51 #1153
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Not so. Every month of every year there is a world championship in some sport or pursuit playing out in a single venue event. And often it is the same venue each year. A world championship doesn't need to travel. What it needs is to be accessible to a proportionate number of world players, teams, manufacturers.
Rather than argue the benefits of staying on one continent it may be easier to argue the disadvantages of not doing so ... which are many.Never do anything you wouldn't want to explain to a paramedic.
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15th January 2019, 08:56 #1154
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This is not very good argument either. There are countless world championships which don't take place all around the globe. All the sports take place only where there is interest in it. That's why You don't see an ice hockey championship being played in Africa. Winter sports are being held on less than half of the globe etc. It still doesn't make these championship any less world ones simply because the areas of no interest bring also no value to the sport (often have also no suitable conditions). Would it help to bring an ice hockey championship to let's say Egypt or to Australia? Of course not.
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15th January 2019, 09:24 #1155
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Really? Ski jumping takes place mostly in Europe (Japan is the only exception) and nobody has a problem to call it the World Cup. Does everything have to be "global" these days?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E...d_Cup#CalendarLast edited by Jarek Z; 15th January 2019 at 09:27.
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15th January 2019, 10:04 #1156
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15th January 2019, 10:19 #1157
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15th January 2019, 10:28 #1158
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In the time of all live, live tv and free borders many who can actually buy them spectate...
But i agree, there are many organizers in EU with everything necessary who want to have a go and would be probably quite successful.Last edited by Tarmop; 15th January 2019 at 10:31.
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15th January 2019, 12:02 #1159
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When you are talking about ice hockey, I have one strange memory connected to this. When I was returning from Rally Mexico, I was flying back together with national ice hockey of Ireland, who was playing world championship class C. And I remember well they told me that they have won only over Armenia, but they were beaten by Luxembourg, Mexico and South Africa
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15th January 2019, 17:39 #1160
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When I go to WRC event, I want to see the best drivers as always. If I want to see some national drivers, I can go to some other less popular event.. Just simple.
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