Rally Discussion and Bar Talk Thread

[becher]

https://youtu.be/esNBXqGouI0

This is a quite well made documentary series about rallying. The pronunciation is sometimes off, but at least there are next to no factual mistakes.

[WRCStan]

https://youtu.be/esNBXqGouI0

This is a quite well made documentary series about rallying. The pronunciation is sometimes off, but at least there are next to no factual mistakes.

Two minutes in and I recognise this script - it's lifted from Wikipedia, except Paris to Madrid was not half the distance of Paris to Bordeaux, so this was carelessly copied. Will watch more though thanks.

[becher]

Two minutes in and I recognise this script - it's lifted from Wikipedia, except Paris to Madrid was not half the distance of Paris to Bordeaux, so this was carelessly copied. Will watch more though thanks.

Well its not perfect, but at least he can read a Wikipedia page unlike plenty of others who "try" to make similar content. I mean even big budget stuff like "The Grand Tour" just sprouted bs about rallying that anyone with internet access could have looked up within 5 minutes.

[Sal yet again]

https://www.eifel-rallye-festival.de...-306-maxi.html

Neuville to drive a 306 Maxi at the Eifel Rally Festival

[WRCStan]

Well its not perfect, but at least he can read a Wikipedia page unlike plenty of others who "try" to make similar content. I mean even big budget stuff like "The Grand Tour" just sprouted bs about rallying that anyone with internet access could have looked up within 5 minutes.

Or Toyota marketing or wrc.com lol. Give anybody 5 minutes on the internet they will stick to Wikipedia. It's staggering how much bad information there is, and not necessarily by intention. It's the result of having an article written by committee over a 15-20 year period. Facts get eroded and removed from context bit by bit, facts become fctas, become accepted truth, then the lazy Toyotas and wrc.coms become the trusted citations of the new fctas, unless somebody steps up with real effort to really check the entire article, its history and sources, then the same things start to happen again anyway. The whole site is a fascinating experiment of human and social behaviour. It's OK for quenching the thirst for instant answers but must not to be trusted as a source for anything that matters, which is the mistake Toyota and wrc.com made. Aannyway....

[lmmjvss]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBV4tNzKFhA

Hyundai and their weird marketing where they pretend they are a huge motorsport brand.
Urgh... you can KNOW whats the next line from the text during the whole clip.
Technology, Future, Electric, Hydrogen, Sustainability, Power.. haha You can literally antecipate the whole text. Ewww

The 74 looks cool tho.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

WRC is getting so predictable now - Toyota's are totally dominant, Hyundai's often unreliable and hard to drive and M-Sport's driver's mostly letting them down with errors.

I'm starting to follow it out of habit more than getting any real excitement in terms of the results.

Fan videos are still great though, showing the speed and skill of the driver's much better than the formulaic WRC+.

[lmmjvss]

WRC is getting so predictable now - Toyota's are totally dominant, Hyundai's often unreliable and hard to drive and M-Sport's driver's mostly letting them down with errors.

I'm starting to follow it out of habit more than getting any real excitement in terms of the results.

Fan videos are still great though, showing the speed and skill of the driver's much better than the formulaic WRC+.

THIS!
May I ask u (and the other fellas if thats the case too) for a longer thought on that? Do u think its just the predictabiliy? Cuz I have been feeling the same....same with MotoGP, BUT the series has never been so unpredictable, u'know? So I dont know "IMO" if the predictability in WRC is the actual reason some may be feeling "tired" of the sport.
Interesting topic, mate

[fiscorpun]

I'm starting to follow it out of habit more than getting any real excitement in terms of the results.

Same =/

THIS!
May I ask u (and the other fellas if thats the case too) for a longer thought on that?

Weirdly, I'd get SO much more excited about WRC as whole if the next months news were something like:
"Subaru to run the 2 Vermont ARA cars in Rally Japan", "Paddon to run his electric car in New Zealand", "ProDrive reportedly buying two '22 Toyotas to run as an independent team in '23 with Williams Engineering support", "EKS to enter 4 Audis in WRC2 for the next 3 rounds", "Peugeot to test a Dakar engine prototype in a 208 in Acropolis"....

Im missing some FRESH things around WRC. Need "new stuff" in some rounds to get me really pumped again. Hybrids were not fresh enough for me hehehe

[cali]

Give me good driving any day and I do not give a s%it what they are driving.

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