Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
I don't have any confirmation on this but it could well be a part of the team's contract with the WRC promoter, when they pay the entry fee the WRC promoter ensures the car is shown in close up at the start and end of each stage it runs, to get a good view of the sponsor decals on TV (and in turn, the teams use this contract when they are getting sponsors).

Again, I personally agree that these scenes shouldn't be showed so much, but I can understand why they are doing it...
But most of the time is spent showing a close-up of the driver sitting in the car, not the car itself.

(And then my pet-hate, the comms pointlessly saying 'and there goes xxx into the stage...' so you cant hear the car properly.)