WRC coverage......

[_Batty_]

Better

actually enjoyed it,
also loved the night stages with the flaming exhausts, just shame they arn't quite as good as the old group
b cars

[ewenm]

Did you find the voiceover was too quiet for the first 5 minutes or so? Or was it just my ears?

I enjoyed the flaming and glowing exhausts and brakes too

[RTH]

It's really the action that is so much the same, the cars and the roads and the people are so much the same year after year. It is all too predictable.

[sosidge]

Yes, funny how rally cars going around the same tarmac/mountain stages year after year is samey...

...perhaps you would rather they dressed up in clown suits or tried cycling around the course backwards? Or maybe it wouldn't be the Monte Carlo Rally if you did that?

[PhillT]

I've been trying to find out when the coverage is on... can anyone direct me to the appropriate time?

[burns76]

Gutted I missed it! Checked the paper yesterday, and could only see it listed on Eurosport (which I don't have) so spent the day in a huge sulk.

Is it on ITV4 permanently now then? And does anyone know if the coverage of Monte Carlo will be repeated?

Edited by burns76 on Monday 22 January 15:39

[rallycross]

you didn't miss much, not enough top level competiton, and no snow.

its only on ITV4 or eurosport these days not on ITV1 anymore.

[RTH]

sosidge said:

Yes, funny how rally cars going around the same tarmac/mountain stages year after year is samey...

...perhaps you would rather they dressed up in clown suits or tried cycling around the course backwards? Or maybe it wouldn't be the Monte Carlo Rally if you did that?

If you compare yesterdays footage with that of the 60s , 70s, and 80s not just the Monte Carlo but Rallies all over the world are a pale shaddow of the events they used to be in terms of duration, terrain, road conditions, mileage, variety of types of road employed, size of entry and variety of cars entered, No roads were used more than once, the whole spectacle was at a different level.The broadcaster cannot be blamed for what the events have now become.

[MrKipling43]

No that's true. It's the FIA that have cocked it up. The cars don't look anything like what you can buy from the respective manufacturers (which would be fine if they were 600+bhp 'free' monsters) and the events aren't really rallies anymore, 'just' off-road sprints. No one can really touch Loeb and, by the looks of how far off the pace the Fords were, the Citroens are untouchable.

I mean, just as an example, how awesome were those night stages they ran at Monte Carlo this year?! Truly spectacular stuff for the first time in ages! They need to bring night stages back properly.