Motorsport suspended until at least end of April

[Fast Eddie WRC]

https://www.motorsportuk.org/motorsp...from-4th-july/

Re-start 4th July - no details about rallying though...

[AndyRAC]

Listening to the Dirtfish podcast, and David Evans was furious with MUK's guidance in regards to rallying's return, or not as it turns out.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Listening to the Dirtfish podcast, and David Evans was furious with MUK's guidance in regards to rallying's return, or not as it turns out.

Yeah, MSUK then backtracked and said it was 'just to stimulate conversation' !

[Fast Eddie WRC]

UK Rallying to resume & updated guidance:

https://www.motorsportuk.org/motorsp...t-to-rallying/

https://dirtfish.com/rally/brc/uk-ra...ead-to-return/

[AndyRAC]

Good news, a shame most events have gone this year. But I saw the Nicky Grist (Quinton) Stages is going ahead late November; and the BTRDA is hoping to compete the championship.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

M-Sport event !!

https://www.m-sport.co.uk/single-pos...O-RALLY-STAGES

[the sniper]

although spectators will unfortunately not be permitted, work is afoot to deliver the best of the action to the public.

I'm intrigued to see what this'll mean. To me, one of the critical things going forward with British rallying is how it's going to reach the public. This has to be the point at which internet coverage of National events (all we've got left...) finally comes to the fore.

Watching the Mediasport.cz/videonovinky coverage of Czech events shows the quality of coverage that can be achieved with modest means. Okay, many of our National rallies are now too short to tell any kind of narrative story of an 'event', but at least coverage like that is a model that facilitates it.

[AndyRAC]

This will annoy the purists but having events with no spectators, either at the event or online watching is almost pointless.......

[the sniper]

The spin they seem to be giving it elsewhere is that its to be filmed to produce a number of videos to act as training guides for rallying in the CV-19 era. Will be interesting to see if any of these will involve how to deal with spectators as know some in the sport would love it if all rallying was held behind "closed doors"

Think it was a bit of a feck up to publicise this on social media platforms as was bound to attract attention from fans starved of the live experience

If there's no decent coverage of it online, it makes no sense. Though as we know, the sport in this country does seem to be oddly comfortable with the idea of nobody watching it. It's been such a receipt for success... Though I've seen the argument online that there shouldn't be online live coverage as it only encourages people to turn up. I don't buy into that at all!

I think the only 'progress' we'll actually see in the sport in this country is a re-emboldening of the anti-spectator types who'll take great satisfaction from approaching people to quote Covid laws in the middle of an empty forest.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

"...work is afoot to deliver the best of the action to the public".

Well if they are filming it for training and example purposes I expect there to be good professional coverage online.

And the fact that it is held in Greystoke, M-Sport's private testing forest, they should be well used to policing the area from prying eyes..