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Thread: WRC main class in 2025
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15th February 2024, 08:40 #731
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https://www.motorsport.com/wrc/news/...mula/10575763/
Cyril says the sport needs stability and Peter Thul says it needs clarity.
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15th February 2024, 17:41 #732
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15th February 2024, 19:39 #733
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No, it's not. The point was different.
Anyway If you remove the aero they will spend the same money on suspension, or on differentials or whatever. The budget they have is not much driven by the technical rules but by the amount of money their managing board allocates for them. This amount of money is mainly about the marketing value of the championship. In other words if you want to save money for the teams you have to introduce some sort of budget cap. Playing with details like material for door panels is a waste of time for everyone involved.
Still I need to repeat that you won't make WRC better by making it cheaper. That will not bring new manufacturers. The key point is to find the story to sell to the public, a story which is so powerful that the new manufacturers see it as a opportunity for their promotion. Nothing else will work. And to be honest I don't think that the technical formula is all that important in that. IMHO the work done on social networks is way more important than argueing over and over again about how the new car shall look like.Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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15th February 2024, 19:58 #734
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You need competition, you need stories, you need visibillity.
I'm sad to say todays wrc lack most of it due to bad management and a pay to wiew solution noone outside the fanbase know about.
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15th February 2024, 20:42 #735
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15th February 2024, 23:02 #736
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The question relating to 2030, and although Rally2 and Rally1 being different, consider these brands are...
1. 100% electric
2. Budget for a reason and probably pivoting to ROW markets where electric and WRC isn't important
3. Electrifying fast, Uturn on electrification pace possibly incoming however return to motorsport association unlikely.
4. 100% electric by 2030
5. Uturned on 100% electric for business case but presents as a leading electric brand
6. 100% electric by 2028."It's not sport!" - Gilles Panizzi
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16th February 2024, 06:35 #737
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Yes, plenty of those in wrc thru the years:
Colin McCrash's 3 rolls in Finland, still managed to finish
Kenneth Eriksson in subaru in sweden
Petter Solberg has lots.
Marcus Grönholm also have lots
Panizzi, and all the tarmac-heroes from the past.
If the competition is good, and its enough seats available, it will always be stories to be told, both from the topguys and some lokal heros one-off.
The recipe for the promoter is like this:
How many seats/drivers/teams do we need? I say 15-20 seats
How do we get that?
A formula that is good enough to get spectacle, but not extreme tech-driven or expensive. Maybe todays safety-cell with an ice engine, and ofcourse a rulechange that open up for other teams than manu's to build cars.
How do we get bigger audience?
Make free half-hours recaps and summaries you give out for free, both on YT, social medias and regular TV canals.
Then more fans will buy your rally-tv product.
How to get stories?
If you have more seats, they come by itselves.
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16th February 2024, 11:03 #738
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Yes, there are many more exciting stories from the past:
1. Colin McRae vs Carlos Sainz in the same Subaru team fighting for the title in 1995 (Colin didn't want to follow team orders)
2. Carlos Sainz loses the title to Tommi Makinen on the last stage of RAC Rally in late nineties
3. Two top Brits Richard Burns and Colin McRae fighting for the title until the last rally in 2001
4. Audi vs Lancia in 1983:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER_nwY9ADBQ
It's just a couple of examples off the top of my head that I recollected in 10 minutes, but there are plenty more. Always from the past of course, because modern WRC is too boring to generate any exciting stories.Last edited by Jarek Z; 16th February 2024 at 11:10.
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16th February 2024, 11:04 #739
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Ok I didn't know if you mean personal stories like how one man overcame adversity to become champion, or the drama like Red Bull Horner has now...
"It's not sport!" - Gilles Panizzi
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16th February 2024, 11:07 #740
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I think there are more exciting stories in ERC now, like the one from last year when a forgotten WRC star from New Zealand returns to Europe and wins ERC, despite having to fight against a 5-car armada of the official MRF team.
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toyota running pajari, msport's sponsor running sesks... im waiting on hyundai to run someone else too, since they pushed hard for keeping rally1s. need to have space for new guys. oli, lindholm,...
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