Quote Originally Posted by PLuto View Post
Lot of action, really beautiful weather conditions, middle of Saturday so potentially plenty of spectators. But competition today is over in reality, missing only "useless" city SSS in the evening. What a missed opportunity to attract people...
Agree 100%
The Promoter / Organisers really don't seem to understand what they are trying to promote. Sure, a super special in Monte Carlo with celebrities etc. will probably gain some social media reaction in the very short term but its very hard to see how it attracts new fans in the longer term as it has no relevance to actual rallying.
Today could have been a day of Monte that fans would talk about for years to come, instead fans are just left feeling frustrated and short-changed.

Rather than focusing on the super special in Monte Carlo there are plenty of stories in the actual rally worth telling:
• The conditions – they look amazing in many of the videos online, far more so than the official coverage
• New kid on the block beating the old master
• Famous old team set a 2nd fastest overall stage time in a Rally 2 car on their first rally back (conditions obviously a huge factor but nonetheless there is a good story there)
• Rally 3 car sets 3rd fastest overall stage time
• Many many examples of spectators helping get cars back on the road
• Solberg goes off and still wins stage
• Paddon nearly crashes into Pajari (not even shown on coverage I think?)
• etc. etc.

Stop frustrating and angering the current fans with gimmicks that are unlikely to attract long term fans, give us proper stages and promote the real rally stories properly