Wales WRC 2011

[FA51CAM]

Hi,

After having a few beers last night i decided it was a good idea to go see the WRC in Wales. I havent been before, so really just looking for some advice on the best stages to watch, going for the saturday and possibley the sunday.

Cheers

[Crease]

the orme will be pretty spectacular, used to live in llandudno, and i know its a pretty tough road with lots of little walls and steep drops into the sea!

should be a few good speccy points too!

ill be heading to sweet lamb, as its closer to where i live and some good speccy points too!

[FA51CAM]

Crease said:

the orme will be pretty spectacular, used to live in llandudno, and i know its a pretty tough road with lots of little walls and steep drops into the sea!

should be a few good speccy points too!

ill be heading to sweet lamb, as its closer to where i live and some good speccy points too!

Thats where i was going to head for the saturday, sounds silly but how does it work? can spectators drive between stages, so you see them fly past more than once or is it once you watch a stage thats it? Just want to have a plan for what i can do whilst i am there to get the most out of the day.

[ArnageWRC]

The organisers would prefer if you stay at one stage for the whole day. On the Saturday and Sunday you'll get two runs of the WRC boys, and in between the top National boys.
Sweetlamb wil be good on Saturday, and Halfway on Epynt on Sunday is also excellent.

[Matt..]

Being in Cardiff i'm going to find it harder to see anything this year. Though it still seems very odd that Park Ferme is in Cardiff... which is 1hr+ from the nearest stage now!?

What are the stages like around Brecon? are they worth a look? I don't want to go further than that, as i don't want to venture too far north.

[Allyc85]

Go to the Epynt ranges between LLandovery and Brecon on the Sunday and you get to see 2 stages for the price of 1 with just a very short walk between the stages

[Blayney]

Allyc85 said:

Go to the Epynt ranges between LLandovery and Brecon on the Sunday and you get to see 2 stages for the price of 1 with just a very short walk between the stages

Yup - and they are great stages too. Smaller local rallies are awesome on them too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUnF9b-5icQ

shameless plug

[BigBob]

Crease said:

the orme will be pretty spectacular, .......... with lots of little walls and steep drops into the sea!

OH yes!!! IIRC go off on some of them and your MOT will have expired before you reach the bottom

BB

[Matt..]

Does anyone know if the cars will be in Cardiff at all? (and actually viewable). I know they finish here, but are there around at any other time? It says 'park ferme', but that sounds very like they wont be visible!

I'd like to see Kimi out on the stages, but am not sure i hold too much hope for him still being in by the Brecon area stages

[moribund]

I'm amazed they're making them drive to Cardiff every night, but they are! Mad. According to this you'll see them in Cardiff as they stop for interviews etc

http://www.walesrallygb.com/spectators/cardiff_ral...

There are detailed timetables and some basic road route maps on the competitor section of the Rally GB site, so you could see them in transit too

http://www.walesrallygb.com/documents/2011_WRGB_Ra...

[TvrJohn]

2 stages around the Great Orme on the 10th Nov will be terrific

[Matt..]

moribund said:

I'm amazed they're making them drive to Cardiff every night, but they are! Mad. According to this you'll see them in Cardiff as they stop for interviews etc

I'll probably just go to that then, as it's about a 2min walk from here!

Hopefully we'll get some interesting Welsh weather!

[PaulG40]

I will one day actually get my arse over to Wales and watch this event.

I remember as a kid going to Chatsworth House watching them, awesome!

[TXWRX]

With regards to thm being in cardiff, if you go early enough in the morning you'll be able to park up with the WRC cars in the multistory they use as parc ferme ( i did last year ) so you can see the drivers and have a bit of a look at the cars, from memory though it was something like 6 so an early start

some pics







and a car moving too!

[EDLT]

Was that picture of Henning Solberg's car taken as soon as it came off the truck? It looks like it has yet to hit a single tree!

[TXWRX]

Funny you should say that, i looked back at the images and as he went past me half the rear bumper was missing!

Solberg was probably the most imprssive driver to watch, a bit down on power to the works cars but total commitment, outside of the WRC entries i would say Mikkelson, was fantastic seeing him throw that skoda about

[jonesey]

I'm also going up for the first time this year, heading out from North London early hours of Friday morning. Should be a brilliant event, especially if the weather holds out.

[Matt..]

jonesey said:

I'm also going up for the first time this year, heading out from North London early hours of Friday morning. Should be a brilliant event, especially if the weather holds out.

I'm hoping for rain/snow

[Lizardking]

Anyone what channels are covering the Welsh rally?

[Cyder]

ESPN and Motor's normally have coverage.

Also S4C if you have Sky, although in Welsh it comes with subtitles for those of us who don't speak a made up language.