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10th December 2020, 13:10 #1091
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10th December 2020, 15:51 #1092
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10th December 2020, 18:35 #1093
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According to Jarmo Mahonen, in the past Southern European rallies ran during the weekdays so they would actually have less people spectating, because too much spectators was a safety issue, while the UK people had too much TV air time competition from other sports during the weekends
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10th December 2020, 20:42 #1094
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This is a MAJOR difference ! Rallying,aside from speed, has always been about endurance as well (in the sense surviving the environment). Being able to retire, re-start and still be classified is taking all this away ... and does not exist in any other sports. Can a F1 driver that crashed on the first lap can rejoin the race later on ? Nope,and too bad for TV ratings (don't serve me this argument).
To my opinion, this whole concept has totally killed the sport. I junderstand manufacturers want the car to be seen, and that it can serve the urpose of testing (given that there is little off-events test days) , but why on earth would you still be granted rewards (points for you and potentially less for your opponents ?)
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10th December 2020, 20:50 #1095
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+1
SSS on "natural grounds" (e.g. mickey mouse stages in the old RAC rally, street course , even a race circuit) make sense provided there are'nt too many.
When it's full of cones and hayballs it does not make sense. And honestly speaking, this was the case in Monza. The bad weather thankfully
made them somehow disappear, but would it have been under the sun it would have looked ugly....
and what to say when they cancel half of the real stages because the weather is "bad". Isn't driving in challenging conditions just the essence of rallying ? when they cancel Dakar stages because too much sand or too hot, or the sail races becasue too much wind, do you think people will still listen ? WRC is shooting itself in the foot by trying to make it TV friendly ...
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12th December 2020, 09:54 #1096
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12th December 2020, 10:11 #1097
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https://www.motorsportforums.com/sho...=1#post1258652
Originally Posted by bluuford
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12th December 2020, 10:14 #1098
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You could claim there's now more endurance than in the past because you have to be able to run 80 km of stages and up to 200 km of liaison without servicing or changing tyres, other than what you have in the car. In the 80's you had service between every stage, even during the stage if necessary!
It's extremely rare that you do a restart and end up on drivers' points. The penalty for missing a stage has been increased for this season.
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12th December 2020, 18:15 #1099
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I see an Extreme-E team (Hamilton's X44) has now signed up Loeb.
His famous name now associated with this new series will do a lot to attract more motorsport fans to it.
WRC should have signed him up as an ambassador promoting it as much as possible around the world. But instead he's effectively allowed to do this for their future rivals.
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16th December 2020, 11:15 #1100
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Seeing what is happening with M-Sport, I think everyone should consider R5+, with just a considerably bigger restrictor, a 6-speed transmission and no other modifications from R5.
I love modern WRC cars, they are the best ever to watch, much better even than GrB or Gr4, but if only two manufacturers in whole world can afford them there should be a serious cutting in cost, soon. And the cheapest and faster thing to do is just this: R5+Last edited by scn; 16th December 2020 at 11:17.
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