The WRC 2012 Thread

[EDLT]

Does he have much experience, Raikonnen struggled and he is a much better driver.

[anonymous-user]

EDLT said:

Does he have much experience, Raikonnen struggled and he is a much better driver.

Well he is better at F1. Guess we won't know until he tries!

[Emeye]

I like Heikki a lot. Shame he didn't capitalise on his time at mclaren, but he'd be more than welcome in WRC, much more than that miserable fker Raikkonen!

[anonymous-user]

Emeye said:

much more than that miserable fker Raikkonen!

Kimi is a legend.

[Allyc85]

Sounds like Juho Hanninen is getting the second M-sport seat

[TankRS]

Allyc85 said:

Sounds like Juho Hanninen is getting the second M-sport seat

Confirmed for Monte & Sweden so far according to Twitter.

[Emeye]

PSBuckshot said:

Kimi is a bellend.

EFA. Might be a great driver but... I don't even want to go there, his does not give a fk attitude winds me up.

[davepoth]

Emeye said:

PSBuckshot said:

Kimi is a bellend.

EFA. Might be a great driver but... I don't even want to go there, his does not give a fk attitude winds me up.

He knows what he's doing. He told us so...

[GravelBen]

Emeye said:

EFA. Might be a great driver but... I don't even want to go there, his does not give a fk attitude winds me up.

You mean the way he doesn't sell out and create an artificial image to keep the media happy?

[Allyc85]

Ken Block returning to the WRC?

https://twitter.com/AlexGelsomino/status/274635057...

As much as I like to see the driver market, the most important thing is seeing thr RB plans and TV deals for the WRC. Less than 50 days till the Monte!!!!!!!

[Emeye]

GravelBen said:

Emeye said:

EFA. Might be a great driver but... I don't even want to go there, his does not give a fk attitude winds me up.

You mean the way he doesn't sell out and create an artificial image to keep the media happy?

He does create an image, one that suits him, as everyone says he is different to work with than his public persona suggests. I remember it being suggested that Eddie Irvine was always trying too hard to be cool.

[Emeye]

PSBuckshot said:

Kimi is a legend.

Just found that in the barge thread.....

[ArnageWRC]

Allyc85 said:

Ken Block returning to the WRC?

https://twitter.com/AlexGelsomino/status/274635057...

As much as I like to see the driver market, the most important thing is seeing thr RB plans and TV deals for the WRC. Less than 50 days till the Monte!!!!!!!

I hope it's not MotorsTV again, with their poor sound and picture quality, not good enough for a World Championship. I think they'll put coverage on their own RedBullTV, which you can watch on iPad, PC, Mac, etc
For us in the UK, it really needs to be either ITV4, or maybe Sky...., I can't imagine the Beeb would be interested. But as you say, less than 50 days to the Monte, and TV schedulers normally plan well in advance.

[interloper]

Personally I don't think its a good idea to get hung up on picture or sound quality. If we want rallying to get back to doing a bit more distance rather than the clover leaf format, some compromises will needed to be made especially as the WRC is not in the best financial position.

Maybe if Red Bull can turn things around in a couple of years and start making the WRC into a money spinner, then at that point better quality for the coverage should be on the agenda.

From a purely selfish point of view I like the fact its on Motors because you often end up with a Friday night of rallying, with British, Irish (and who doesn't want a bit of Brid!) and then WRC shows in succession.

[EDLT]

You were happy with the motorsTV show? Even if they could be bothered to include sound, commentary and colour all at the same time it still looked like it was filmed on a potato.

[interloper]

Not overly but over the three nights you got a fair picture of an event and at least they didn't have Paul King (or what ever his name was) commentating, his irritating voice ruined the Dave coverage and was slowly putting me off watching the WRC completely!

[IainW]

What's annoyed me for years now, is the way they commentate on stages as if they're live and fake shock when somebody makes a mistake. What happened to simply reporting over pictures like the BBC used to do? Was it when Channel 4 took it over, that it started this trend?

[EDLT]

MotorsTV doesn't do that. The commentators tell you a driver was going well until he crashed then the pictures catch up a minute later.

[Emeye]

Everyone used to rave about the BTCC TV highlights on BBC in the 90s with Murrey Walker's exciting coverage, but that was all scripted.

IMO despite the poor picture quality, somewhat emphasised by huge plasma TVs, I think MotorsTV provided great coverage this year given what they had to work with. The commentators are enthusiastic and really know their stuff as they are real fans, unlike in the past, when you had some bored sounding dude translating the French commentary!

The camera work was also very good at some events this year, especially RallyGB - the incar footage seems to have greatly improved with a real sense of speed and excitement!

[SAGTAFF]

Emeye said:

IMO despite the poor picture quality, somewhat emphasised by huge plasma TVs, I think MotorsTV provided great coverage this year given what they had to work with. The commentators are enthusiastic and really know their stuff as they are real fans, unlike in the past, when you had some bored sounding dude translating the French commentary!

The coverage has been shockingly bad to the point where I turned it off - the dubbing was put of sync, those two annoying commentators arging with each ther all the time, driver interviews too quiet to hear. Pathetic. I think I'm writing saying Sky have it next year so hopefully will see a big improvement