2022 ERC News & Rumours

[PLuto]

Still missing champ standings in ERC Open on the website.
Did they forget?

Also would like to have a video report per day from the support classes, as they make in WRC. They also need something for their sponsors.

ERC open is currently big failure in almost all sides. In fact they are out of ERC, first day starting among non-priority competitos. Not eligible to score points in ERC general...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Two-minute daily highlights on YT for the whole rally seems all we're getting without having a subscription.

They really need to make a proper highlights package for broadcasters to show post-rally.

Even RTP Portugal tv dont have anything for Rally Fafe on their listings !

[Sulland]

ERC open is currently big failure in almost all sides. In fact they are out of ERC, first day starting among non-priority competitos. Not eligible to score points in ERC general...

What???
Was not the decision of launching the ERC Open class anchored in all places it needed to be before they went public?
Who did not agree?
Any chance of fixing it?

[Sulland]

Two-minute daily highlights on YT for the whole rally seems all we're getting without having a subscription.

They really need to make a proper highlights package for broadcasters to show post-rally.

Even RTP Portugal tv dont have anything for Rally Fafe on their listings !

No more with subscription I am afraid!
Hopefully more next time!

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Fan videos are probably as good anyway...

https://automovilismocanario.com/vid...-de-fafe-2022/

[Jarek Z]

ERC open is currently big failure in almost all sides.

But Martins Sesks still likes it. Congratulations on a great result, by the way!
https://www.fiaerc.com/erc/news/erc/...-logical-step/

[Jarek Z]

Vic Elford, former European Champion, passed away aged 86 What an interesting person he must have been!
https://www.fiaerc.com/erc/news/erc/...ampion-elford/

[Sal yet again]

Quick VIC was one of those drivers who won so much yet never really entered in the public domain as much as some other names of the era. Great rally driver but just as adept at the roundy roundy stuff. RIP

[PLuto]

But Martins Sesks still likes it. Congratulations on a great result, by the way!
https://www.fiaerc.com/erc/news/erc/...-logical-step/

Martins likes the car. And idea of R4 car. With what happened before/during Fafe with this category, he was confused also...

[Sulland]

This is on the bottom of the registration sheet for ERC Open:

REGISTRATION COSTS €2000 PER TEAM. YOU WILL BE INVOICED AND SENT MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE COMPETITION UPON REGISTRATION. PLEASE PROVIDE THE NAME OF THE PERSON TO WHOM THIS INVOICE SHOULD BE SENT.

Explanation on class in website:

Exclusively for Rally2 Kit, homologated Group N4 and RGT cars.
Rally2 Kit offers lower-cost, four-wheel-drive action and encourages technical ingenuity by independent operators. Examples of Rally2 Kit cars – which come with a ‘kit’ of performance parts from official supplier ORECA – used in the ERC in 2021 included the Škoda Fabia, Suzuki Swift and Toyota Yaris.
In addition to Rally2 Kit cars, ERC Open caters for some of rallying’s most iconic names through Group N4 and RGT. Group N4 is the domain of the Mitsubishi Lancer and Subaru Impreza, while the Abarth 124 rally, Alpine A110 RGT and Porsche 997 GT3 are built to RGT regulations.

Strange if the class suddenly have been axed, and title stripped from ERC.