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Probably an offical VW works team.
Rather than the country dealer based jobs they use now. |
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After disappearing at the end of last year, there has finally been an announcement from the Galli camp:
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10 Aug 2016, 09:22 (Ref:3664851) | #504 | ||
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Forgive the double post, but Guerlain Chicherit confirmed in the JRM MINI for France, Spain and Germany:
http://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/ar...ins-jrm-racing |
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7 Sep 2016, 21:43 (Ref:3670830) | #505 | ||
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Not strictly rallycross news but it seems that the gymkhana debut of the Focus RS RX that was teased at the end of Gymkhana 8 is now imminent:
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Ekstrom will miss the last round of the DTM championship to compete in Estering - makes sense as he's nowhere in DTM this year and has a good shot at the rallycross title.
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28 Sep 2016, 10:07 (Ref:3675671) | #508 | ||
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Since he is also a rallycross driver it would make more sense if he tested a rallycross car, they already have Grönholm and the regular drivers testing out the 2017 WRC car. They have been quite open about testing the 2017 car too. |
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28 Sep 2016, 12:08 (Ref:3675687) | #509 | |
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True that, but the dummy to add weight to the passenger side, intriguing. He also references WRC in the post, all a bit confusing.
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4 Oct 2016, 10:48 (Ref:3677183) | #510 | ||
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Is the world rallycross going to Silverstone next year?
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5 Oct 2016, 10:44 (Ref:3677456) | #511 | ||
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I still can not get the idea why an only 5 races long ERX is preferred over a decent European Championship (I don't mean RCE) with for example 10 races. Is it only the ERX final on youtube that make their decision? |
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5 Oct 2016, 11:17 (Ref:3677467) | #512 | ||
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They have all been swept up in the hype.
You can't blame them, there are not enough drivers and teams to really compete in a proper ERC like it used to be. Well not true, there are, but to get them all agreeing would be hard. I personally think it's possible but it would need some considerable budget and effort to convince people to not do ERX. It is fewer rounds for lower budgets, less travelling, better exposure (although in reality you get nothing on tv, all social media) and the chance to be in the same paddock as the supposed elite. But in reality you are the poor relation, paying a lot for that privilege. But they all do it for some stupid reason. But if no-one offers an alternative, and teams like Munnich etc are happy to hand over thousands to IMG what can you do, other than start a series, offer them better deals on ferries, hotels, prize money. For me I would look initially at a one off event, a rallycross spectacular at somewhere like Valkenswaard or Estering, or even Sosnova. Huge prize fund, get the big teams there, and also the smaller ones, they are all out there, they just can't afford to compete in WRX, the door has been completely closed to them. |
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13 Oct 2016, 17:34 (Ref:3679800) | #513 | |
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Albatec Racing general manager Atte Varsta said that FIA World RX the price is rising to a level that is too hard. This means that drivers leave series. He criticises in particular the promoter IMG-company.
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13 Oct 2016, 21:49 (Ref:3679847) | #515 | ||
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I told you all, but some of you thinks its awesome, amazing great!
I do hope the future is OK, they are running before they can walk these IMG arses. I hope they disappear very soon and leave rallycross to those that know how to grow it carefully and with an eye on the future, not on the immediate profit. |
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13 Oct 2016, 21:55 (Ref:3679848) | #516 | |
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So thanks to the Hansens we are struck with the Joker Lap forever and now IMG? There were others of course like Pauwels who favoured the Mettet circuit and is now self a non runner. The Doran's where involved. So what's the status of those early yea people?
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14 Oct 2016, 06:56 (Ref:3679921) | #517 | ||
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Precisely, Scott and Albatec were heavily involved in the early years and sadly have realised how expensive and difficult it is to compete, remember Scott employed Villeneuve! A no doubt expensive thing to do! Did a lot of publicity and has been dumped into the ERX series either through choice or some other reason.
Doran is disgraced so no loss there, Pauwels has never been top drawer but perhaps threw money in early on and maybe has links to Mettet? |
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14 Oct 2016, 07:46 (Ref:3679928) | #518 | |
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These promoters never learn? In fact, they're not really promoters - they sell TV rights, and charge 'hosting fees'.......and make everything expensive, but do very little in the way of promotion.
Having a FiA World Championship for RX is/ was a step too far; it's basically a North European sport. |
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I would be really happy if ALL European rounds of the WRX would have an ERX included. That would sort most of our needs I guess...
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14 Oct 2016, 11:00 (Ref:3679960) | #521 | |
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That said: I still think there should be more rounds to call it a proper World Championship! F1 is on much more
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I doubt that will ever happen sadly. IMG know they have to have the ERX boys at certain events to get the crowds and say we have over 50 cars, if you look, they seem to have them at the bigger events like France, Sweden and Belgium. They obviously don't travel to the "world lol" events either.
They are at the moment tapping into the furore of WRX becoming a big thing and everyone wanting to be involved but they have to be extremely careful, if you start losing the support of the smaller teams (who helped you out when you were nothing), you might get a small grid of teams with big budgets and be able to sell that (which is all IMG want lets face it) but the rest of rallycross becomes a nothing sport. My issue all along. As a few are realising, it just takes someone like a Scott, Doran, Eklund, Jernberg to get punchy with some money, get a few folk on board and you could easily have an ERC again. Bit unfair to label IMG as doing no promotion, I am their biggest critic on here, but they have embraced social media very well, pushed the sport on to half decent tv, improved the image, bought in sponsors. They just packaged it, stuck in on a tv screen and a lunchbox and started selling it for top dollar before it was even properly established. They have been lucky, if they tried this in the late 90's they would have bombed as WRC was massive then. But half of good business is luck! |
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Offcourse IMG need a lot of credit. Rallycross had to make a step forward and they made it possible.
But that said I still find it not real rallycross anymore. Jokerlap is stupid on a lot of tracks. A lot of tracks are crap. A spotter is a joke. How long will the decent rallycross tracks stay with IMG? Lydden, Buxtehude will go soon. So that leaves a lot of good tracks and a lot of people who don't belong to the IMG circus anymore. Just the need for a couple of guys to organize the ERC |
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14 Oct 2016, 13:09 (Ref:3679979) | #524 | ||
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Spotters are a stupid waste of time, I almost think they know that and its an excuse to name a sponsor every 5 minutes, this isnt NASCAR for Gods sake,
They do have merit and it pushes the very flimsy team angle IMG are so obssessed with. The tracks cant afford to his WRX, it will be run at tracks like GRC is, where local areas share the outlay. That has merit and bad sides. But only has bad sides if rallycross is left to rot and no-one takes up the ERC mantle. |
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