Quote Originally Posted by focus206 View Post
Why does it matter if we say it before or afterwards? We are just users on a forum. It's not like FIA/WRC would pitch ideas from us even if we said it before... but I do remember people wondering why it took so long for WRC to restart, around the Roma Capitale days. And wondering why they didn't try to fill the big empty gap between Sardegna and Ypres. Same thing when Ypres was cancelled, huge gap to Monza but they're just idling and waiting to see if also Monza will get cancelled. There were plenty of people with perplexity over the calendar and the dates, but they were not the ones making decisions...
It has been said before; we know it's not easy to organise an event quickly - it's quite different to organising an event on a circuit. However, they've constantly been shown up as being reactive rather than proactive.
And the most damning situation for them is how the ERC/Eurosport Events have handled it - and are handling next year. The WRC will have far more resources to organise events, yet they've fumbled around.

Far too many people are giving them a 'free pass' because of the Covid crisis. Their job - is to run and promote the WRC; they got it wrong during the lockdown, and they haven't got the return much better. Three events since March - three opportunities to sell the sport......all the while rival series have been running events regularly in the same period.

Questions should be asked - but probably won't.