Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
You are implying that if there's a WRC car infront of the R5 cars, there won't be a competitive R5 field or no one will follow that? It's like (well a lot more than) WRC2 in WRC, people still follow that. And you also imply that people will remember details of the local rallies such as the margin or the car that the winner drove, but that people would not remember who was the fastest R5 in a tight battle behind the winning WRC?

Maybe I'm just spoiled in Finland where we have four separate championships for different classes of cars with usually intense battles in all of them and no one really cares about the rally overall results.
This is pure Finnish specific. In nearly all other countries and championships it's not like that and the overall standings is what matters the most.

Also Your example with WRC2 is wrong (or it actually proves that Tommeke was right). The number of people following WRC2 is way lower than of those following overall standings (hell, even common media don't bother with WRC2 - even in Czech Republic where one would expect them to write something about Škoda or Kopecký's successes You usually get an information that Ogier won and Kopecký was 15th without bothering with any further details).