OMG....It's getting as bad as F1

[ales]

but this is it. This is getting too much for me. They are ruining my, and if I might say so, outr favourite sports. What have they achieved in F1 with their cust-cutting ideas? Well, we got the 2003 Monaco race with 0 (!) overtaking maneuvres throughout the race and we got Canada 2003 as well. The parc ferme rule doesn't allow the teams to set the car up to be able to have an optimum race AND qualifying, qualifying being a mockery in its own right. Don't worry, I'm getting to the rally topic.

Cost cutting??? Go to hell and die, FIA. And the sooner the better. Non-turbo engines??? Right, it will "only" destroy everything I love about the sport, I love the sound, I love the way the cars drive, it has been like that for all the years that I've followed rally. Call me conservative, but that's something I don't want to be changed?

Control tyres? Sigh. Why? What would that acomplish? Something similar to the 2003 Brazil F1 race? No thanks! The ideas are seriously fucked up.

What about this ridiculous third driver rule? So the FIA want the teams to get rid of a race winner in favour of someone relatively inexperienced and for one reason or another relatively unsuccessful? What I can see is the manufacturers (and sponsors) saying "no thanks, we're not playing this game" and pulling out.

Why does a series that has just become so popular worldwide (thanks to a great effort of Dave Richards, too bad he now spends so much time at that joke of an F1 team). I'm reminded of DTM in the 90-s. The series became so popular that Bernie had to step in and ruin it with the ETC BS. Now rally is successful and popular, and they have to come in and ruin it all for us. Well, newsflash - if it ain't broke ... If it's successful, maybe leave it as it is? Maybe the recipe for success is already in place? Maybe we need a new motorsports governing body (Ray, are you up for setting up one with me? ) - the FIA for quite a few years now under the wise leadership of Max Mosley has done nothing but gradually blunt the premier motorsport series, first F1, now WRC. I can't really say more, I'm hugely disapointed, and can only hope for the better (knowing that that's not likely for quite a while).

[freakray]

Seems that they are trying to streamline the WRC with F1....what a load of bull, the last thing you need is a rally car without a turbo!
I don't see the point of them going naturally aspirated anyhow, considering the engines are already governed so it's not like they're producing excessive and dangerous power.
I can just see rally cars with under 200hp coming.....

Service one car at a time? Does this mean they will have longer service periods or does it mean they will have less time to service cars.

4 days? I thought they were trying to make the WRC more compact and TV friendly?
Can somebody help me here, they propose to extend the rally to 4 day events, but are eliminating 42 competitive days so will be able to add more rallies to the WRC?
The way they are proposing to run it will not make it more compact, it will prolong it and make it less spectator friendly.

Alex, I'm in, you can be Max
I think we need Mr Curtis too......how about it Mr Curtis, are you with us?

The FIA sports council are a bunch of bumbling morons

EDIT: spelling

[Guido]

Let's get a new FIA of the ground! We call it FAF -> Federation AF!

We can run it with 3 to 4 people. I'll be the secretary

Indeed every series that was succesfull, the FIA tried to take over and when they succed they destroyed it. Same with - not only DTM into ITC - but also BDRM (I forgot the name - sorry) into FIA GT's. Look what's left from that

[ales]

Originally posted by huudo

We can run it with 3 to 4 people. I'll be the secretary

Belgians ... always looking for most bureaucratic positions

Sorry, Guido, you're not even starting to be resembling the kind of hot secretary who'd be fir to work for me

[Guido]

I have to correct myself. "Secretary General" I meant.

[Tso]

i concur with Ales. it's all a bunch of bullock.

isn't their "new" class suppose to be a bit quicker than a N car, but slower than an A car?

best thing 'bout a rallye car is the fucking turbine. (one of the things anyways)

[RallyRaider]

Originally posted by freakray

Alex, I'm in, you can be Max
I think we need Mr Curtis too......how about it Mr Curtis, are you with us?

Yeah I'll have ago, can't make things any worse can we? But I don't want to be Bernie, his wife scares me.

Tso: I can think of plenty of other things that are a bunch of bollocks. Where's that apology?
Watch the language kid. I know it is novel and you think it makes you sound like an adult, but it is not welcome here. Can we ban him for that sort of thing Alex, just a little bit?