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2012 WRC season discussion (54 posts)

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JPedroCQF1 said 1 year, 4 months ago:

@andrewtanner I pretty sure the Power Stage still exists, but as you said, there’s no sign of it on the Eurosport schedule. They will only show highlights, as it seems.

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AndrewTanner said 1 year, 4 months ago:

@joao-pedro-cq That’s a real shame. Doesn’t look like Motors TV will be picking it up either. Hopefully something will be sorted out soon.

That said, it often clashed with the F1 race so perhaps someone needs to rethink its scheduling if they’re trying to generate interest in the sport.

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JPedroCQF1 said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Just seen the Ogier crash. Really big shunt. Luckily, they haven’t got hurt.

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AndrewTanner said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Just watched it now myself. It’s certainly fast enough, I’m just glad there wasn’t a wall involved.

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AndrewTanner said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Todt is scheduled to speak in Valence today at 09:15 local French time. Also in Valence we have senior Eurosport executives including the head of their motorsport coverage and the head of their media rights.

Rumour is a 3 year deal for Eurosport, as long as they don’t monopolise it.

Unfortunately I can’t link you as I read it on the iRally app which doesn’t allow me to share articles.

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Chalky said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Well if that includes running the website, then I hope we get highlight videos of each days running, without having to subscribe to the Eurosport player.

….and an up to date section on the teams and drivers. Simply stuff, as I haven’t a clue who’s in what car / team for the season.

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AndrewTanner said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Here you go, @chalky

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_World_Rally_Championship_season

I was planning on having a look myself.

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Chalky said 1 year, 4 months ago:

@andrewtanner Perfect. Thank you. Now why did I not think of using Wikipedia?

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BasCB said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Here’s the Autosport interiew with Todt about the WRC and where its heading interesting read.

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AndrewTanner said 1 year, 4 months ago:

@bascb Thanks for the link. I actually watched some of the press conference and I must say that Tort really takes his time answering questions!

Hybrid tech sounds good to me but I’m glad he’s grounded enough to realise electric isn’t the way forward for fiercely competitive motorsport.

I’m a bit disappointed that there’s no answer on the promotion side of things but Sweden isn’t far away so I’ll hold him to his notion that we will know by then.

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JPedroCQF1 said 1 year, 4 months ago:

@andrewtanner I’m hoping Eurosport gets the deal done for the TV rights. It would be a way of starting to recover the dignity of motorsports here in Portugal, after what SportTV (or FootballTV, either way is fine) did to the motorsports. They had a guy who commented football games comentating on WRC and F1. For F1, the torture continues. For WRC, it’s the end of it, it seems. Fortunately, I don’t sign any of the SportTV channels.

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AndrewTanner said 1 year, 4 months ago:

So, Monte Carlo is over and done. What did you make of it?

Congratulations to Loeb first and foremost, a deserved win.

It’s a real shame that Latvala crashed out, any other rally and I think he would have been OK, that piece of ice really caught him out. The important thing I guess is that he’s looking very competitive from the off.

Stand out drivers of the weekend for me are Hirvonen, Sordo and Tanak.

I think Hirvonen did a good job at his first rally in a DS3. He seemed to cope well with the brake issues he was having and I believe he managed to close the gap to Solberg quite well from memory.

Sordo got a stage win for Mini and to finish 2nd over all is a great achievement. Hopefully this means that their good result last year wasn’t a fluke. I bet Meeke is disappointed he isn’t getting a drive with them this year but i’m sure Ford and Citroen are glad that he isn’t there to take any more points off them.

Tanak had a solid result and he’s looking promising for the rest of the season. Good to see he could carry momentum from his good result in Wales.

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Fer no.65 said 1 year, 4 months ago:

It’s not pretty to see Loeb dominating a rally again.

All I want from the 2012 season is Solberg to win again. He’s just a great driver, one of my favourites, and he’s not won a rally since 2005! And if he challenges for the title, then even better!

It’s very sad to see Meeke out of MINI. I don’t particularly like Sordo, and I don’t think he’s that good anyway. Meeke would’ve performed better IMO, but well…

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AndrewTanner said 1 year, 4 months ago:

What was the decision based on when Mini decided to go with Sordo over Meeke?

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JPedroCQF1 said 1 year, 4 months ago:

I think it was money. BMW completely dumped Prodrive and the WRC project because it’s completely focusing on the endurance. MINI will rotate its second driver each rally. For the portuguese round Armindo Araújo is the best candidate. For the others, I don’t have a clue.

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