2023 WRC News & Rumours

[Eli]

Any news where the season opening will take place? Or every team just releases pics in online and that’s it

I really liked the Red Bull TV hosted show this year

Did they cancel the Autosport show for next year? With everything that's gone on, I forgot if it's dead in the water already or if they revived it for next year.

[Paul Hudson]

The Autosport show is going ahead , but no mention of any WRC Launch in any show press release,

[Andre Oliveira]

There is no reason to use Autosport in a country without rally in calendar instead the RallyTV PPV
system.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

There is no reason to use Autosport in a country without rally in calendar...

Ouch !

[WRCStan]

There is no reason to use Autosport in a country without rally in calendar instead the RallyTV PPV
system.

The whole point is to sell to a new crowd, AI has new fans and media assembled in one place. No point in having a private meeting only preaching to the converted.

[Andre Oliveira]

Autosport is a private event too and payed.

[typhoon]

Qatar for one, with M-Sport in the early 2010's, and we all saw which sport their money went to (FIFA World Cup).

(And Abu Dhabi - from Citroen WRT - to a round of F1).

Those sponsors came to WRC when the WRC itself had a way bigger impact on TV.

The championship was shown free-to-air on big markets (France, UK, Germany, etc.), the promoter back then (North One or something, right?) had a way better "Media Mix" than the one the "WRC Promoter" insist to pursuit without success, meaning that then there was much more attention on free-to-air broadcasting deals, even though they were less profitable on a contract basis.

At that time, there was free-to-air coverage in all the big markets: Sport1 (Germany), L'Equipe21 (France), RaiSport (Italy), TV3 (Spain), ESPN (UK). That was definitely more accessible than a 60$-month subscription to Sky Sport (Italy) right now!

Their only Middle-East opportunity would be Saudi Arabia if they manage to put them in the calendar, getting some global sponsorships as well. I repeat: if they manage eventually.

[wyler]

Those sponsors came to WRC when the WRC itself had a way bigger impact on TV.

The championship was shown free-to-air on big markets (France, UK, Germany, etc.), the promoter back then (North One or something, right?) had a way better "Media Mix" than the one the "WRC Promoter" insist to pursuit without success, meaning that then there was much more attention on free-to-air broadcasting deals, even though they were less profitable on a contract basis.

At that time, there was free-to-air coverage in all the big markets: Sport1 (Germany), L'Equipe21 (France), RaiSport (Italy), TV3 (Spain), ESPN (UK). That was definitely more accessible than a 60$-month subscription to Sky Sport (Italy) right now!

Their only Middle-East opportunity would be Saudi Arabia if they manage to put them in the calendar, getting some global sponsorships as well. I repeat: if they manage eventually.

you sure?
ps: wrc is till aired on fta rai in italy.

[rallyfiend]

Those sponsors came to WRC when the WRC itself had a way bigger impact on TV.

The championship was shown free-to-air on big markets (France, UK, Germany, etc.), the promoter back then (North One or something, right?) had a way better "Media Mix" than the one the "WRC Promoter" insist to pursuit without success, meaning that then there was much more attention on free-to-air broadcasting deals, even though they were less profitable on a contract basis.

At that time, there was free-to-air coverage in all the big markets: Sport1 (Germany), L'Equipe21 (France), RaiSport (Italy), TV3 (Spain), ESPN (UK). That was definitely more accessible than a 60$-month subscription to Sky Sport (Italy) right now!

Their only Middle-East opportunity would be Saudi Arabia if they manage to put them in the calendar, getting some global sponsorships as well. I repeat: if they manage eventually.

I don't think the TV deals in the past were better than now.

There's no way in hell the audience on L-Equipe was bigger than what's now there on Canal+.

Same in the UK. ESPN was dire compared to ITV / BT Sport as it is now.

[Sulland]

Today TV stations overpay for Football Premier League, Olympics, and a few world campionships. So only a few countries will get Rally on their list of stations.