"jebidia24" (jebidia240)
11/03/2020 at 09:01 • Filed to: None
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"jebidia24" (jebidia240)
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The 2021 WRC calendar was released on 22 October. I’m a little slow looking at it as I was not notified via my WRC news feed of the calendar’s “ finalization”. Below is the calendar’s tentative although likely schedule:
21-24 January Rally Monte-Carlo
11-14 February Rally Swe den
22-25 April Rally Croatia
20-23 May Rally Portugal
3-6 June Rally Italy
24-27 June Rally Kenya
15-18 July Rally Estonia
29 July-1 August Rally Finland
19-22 August Rally GB
09-12 September Rally Chile
14-17 October Rally Spain
11-14 November Rally Japan
This is a 12 round calendar which I do like. That being said, are they even going to run a ERC with all their events being WRC rounds. How is this the “ World” Rally Championship. This is more like the World Rally Championship of Europe. There isn’t a round in North America, Middle East, or Oceana. Now I applaud the return of Kenya and Japan and the likely move of Rally GB to the Circuit of Ireland but really...........Estonia? Is the pre-Finland round necessary? I get Croatia, they wanted a rocky car killer, but isn’t that what Turkey was for and it was kinda their Middle East round? If the WRC wants to keep me as a spectator and customer they need a more diverse line-up. Only keep the legacy WRC rounds: Monte-Carlo, Sweden, Portugal, Finland and GB. Sorry Italy, unless you want to go back to San Remo, you’re out. Either bring back Mexico or give Canada a shot. Hell, they’ve had problems with snow in Sweden, Canada always has snow! I would love to see Olympus come back for the USA or even a different US rally like LSPR (formerly Press-On-Regardless.....which was once a WRC round) . I get Chile as a replacement for Argentina and that is ok but I would like both. New Zealand or Australia could both come back. Maybe they should give Jordan another shot or even Ivory Coast. What about China, it’s a huge auto market which never got a chance to run? I also understand that hosting a WRC round can be costly for some countries (hence no Turkey) but the WRC and/or the FIA need to help out to make this a true World Rally Championship.
Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> jebidia24
11/03/2020 at 09:33 |
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I don’t think anyone is willing to schedule an event in North America right now. Can’t blame them.
ttyymmnn
> Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/03/2020 at 09:48 |
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You should see the air show calendar....
Jb boin
> jebidia24
11/03/2020 at 12:02 |
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While i am sad that there is no “second” French event for two years in a row i also like that there are multiple unusual entries.
I vory Coast might be unstable in the next months, it’s too early to schedule an event there for next year and Oceania might have been avoided for COVID reasons .
pip bip - choose Corrour
> jebidia24
11/04/2020 at 02:28 |
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no rally in Australia.
:(
Dusty Ventures
> jebidia24
11/04/2020 at 07:14 |
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The powers that be want to limit outside-Europe travel next year due to covid, that’s why there’s so few events beyond the continent and why they’re in the second half of the season. 2022 should be more global. DirtFish is working to get the US back in the WRC, but it’ll likely take at least 3 years before it happens. Similar story with Canada. Event organizers need to find the funding not only to operate a WRC-level event, but help defer team travel costs (all beyond-Europe rallies chip in on team travel). Then before making the calendar they need to hold a candidate event to show they have what it takes to run a WRC rally.