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A feed for all World RX related chat... Latest news is that Marklund will be driving for Mattias Ekstrom's team EKS in an Audi which is an interesting move. Here was the highlights from last year's championship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE1SWfbYxqQ
Edited by motorsportwhizz on Tuesday 27th January 12:02
That isn't entirely accurate. As a result of the new World Championship, there are national championships springing up all over the place - for example, Turkey, Italy and Argentina are starting their own national rallycross championships in 2015 and there's talk about one starting up in Australia in the near future. So, in many ways the World Rallycross Championship is helping stimulate growth at grassroots level in many other countries
chunder27 said:
WRC is only stimulating one thing.
Monster energy and the people promoting it as theya re charging insane hosting rights, its why the series even went to Argentina, they paid more, Turkey, they paid more, Canada, they paid more.
Than Holland, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic who had establshed dates, tracks, fans and series and who would ahve had to give all their money up front to a brand new championship and take the risk of a big crowd coming in.
Do the math or do what WRC did and sell to the highest bidder in places that have no RX history or fanbase.
Sells a lot of diabetes though huh
Not sure I agree with this. By introducing new tracks and new countries to the World RX calendar, it has stimulated national rallycross championships in countries outside of Europe for the first time and helped open up the broadcast to dozens of new territories. There are some very good rallycross tracks in the likes of Hungary and Poland but as an FIA World Championship, World RX has had to step up to the mark and some of these older circuits aren't of high enough standard in terms of facilities, ability to hold bigger crowds etc. Latest World RX TV stats that came out this week look impressive and seems like there's big growth at the moment: http://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/article/8665/lat...Monster energy and the people promoting it as theya re charging insane hosting rights, its why the series even went to Argentina, they paid more, Turkey, they paid more, Canada, they paid more.
Than Holland, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic who had establshed dates, tracks, fans and series and who would ahve had to give all their money up front to a brand new championship and take the risk of a big crowd coming in.
Do the math or do what WRC did and sell to the highest bidder in places that have no RX history or fanbase.
Sells a lot of diabetes though huh
Interesting news out today, World RX joins DTM for their season-opening race at Hockenheim:
http://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/article/8674/wor...
http://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/article/8674/wor...
Looks like World RX is going to be show on Top Gear on 8th March: http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/dgxrkc/top-gear-...
Looking forward to watching that!
Looking forward to watching that!
Me too. Saw that tickets for Lydden Hill just went on sale today: http://www.seetickets.com/event/fia-world-rallycro...
World Rallycross is going to be on Top Gear next Sunday. Can't wait to watch it
http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/dgxrkc/top-gear-...
http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/dgxrkc/top-gear-...
Pictures from James May and the guys trying out World RX are now on BBC America Top Gear's website:
Look forward to watching it on Sunday!
http://www.bbcamerica.com/top-gear/photos/season-2...
Look forward to watching it on Sunday!
http://www.bbcamerica.com/top-gear/photos/season-2...
World RX is show on on British Eurosport, most rounds live. The website www.fiaworldrallycross.com and their social media sites are on the ball for latest championship news
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