The WRC 2012 Thread
Discussion
pixelpimp said:
rallycross said:
The motors tv coverage is really god this weekend, quite like the 2 commentators and the cars look and sound great and look very quick on the snow.
In total agreement, perhaps they've listened. Good and short in car footage with excellent external shots too. I think the two commentators work well together as well.
Pleasantly surprised after the recent doom and gloom.
Allyc85 said:
Im only just catching up on the action and the coverage has been a million times better than on the Monte! Its just a shame they dont edit out the small mistakes they make!
I think the mistakes are left in so that it feels like the commentary is live, not just talking over a video of the same highlights the viewers watch.Autosport said:
The FIA is confident that it will nail down international television coverage for the World Rally Championship this week.
Following the loss of North One Sport as promoter and the subsequent collapse of talks with Eurosport, there had been grave concerns for footage from this year's series. Eurosport agreed a deal with the organisers of the Monte Carlo Rally and Finnish firm Filmworks did the same with last week's Rally Sweden.
The ideal scenario is the central distribution and sales of television coverage of the whole WRC. It's known that a deal had been made with ITV4 for more comprehensive coverage of WRC in 2012 and it's this kind of deal that the FIA is hoping it can achieve again for this season. Individual events have now been told to stop working with local broadcasters.
With an FIA-sanctioned deal ready to be signed this week, there are fears that, having been told by the FIA that the television rights to their events belong to the rallies, some event organisers will complete multi-year agreements with local stations and weaken the FIA's position to attract a series-wide promoter.
WRC Commission president Jarmo Mahonen told AUTOSPORT: "The television should be okay. I can't go to details, but we are working to the plans to have central distribution - we should come out with these plans in the next few days."
Mahonen admitted that the production of television wasn't a concern, adding: "That's the small part on this game. The big thing is about the distribution and maintaining the broadcasters [around the world]. Our aim is to plan and find a system very quickly for the central distribution of footage."
Asked if the FIA could distribute footage, Mahonen replied: "That is one possibility or you put it out to agencies – there are several agencies around the world who can do this."
Rally Sweden distributed the coverage it underwrote at a cost of €300,000 to 30 broadcasters, ensuring the Jari-Matti Latvala's victory on the Karlstad-based event was seen in more than 120 territories last week.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/97514Following the loss of North One Sport as promoter and the subsequent collapse of talks with Eurosport, there had been grave concerns for footage from this year's series. Eurosport agreed a deal with the organisers of the Monte Carlo Rally and Finnish firm Filmworks did the same with last week's Rally Sweden.
The ideal scenario is the central distribution and sales of television coverage of the whole WRC. It's known that a deal had been made with ITV4 for more comprehensive coverage of WRC in 2012 and it's this kind of deal that the FIA is hoping it can achieve again for this season. Individual events have now been told to stop working with local broadcasters.
With an FIA-sanctioned deal ready to be signed this week, there are fears that, having been told by the FIA that the television rights to their events belong to the rallies, some event organisers will complete multi-year agreements with local stations and weaken the FIA's position to attract a series-wide promoter.
WRC Commission president Jarmo Mahonen told AUTOSPORT: "The television should be okay. I can't go to details, but we are working to the plans to have central distribution - we should come out with these plans in the next few days."
Mahonen admitted that the production of television wasn't a concern, adding: "That's the small part on this game. The big thing is about the distribution and maintaining the broadcasters [around the world]. Our aim is to plan and find a system very quickly for the central distribution of footage."
Asked if the FIA could distribute footage, Mahonen replied: "That is one possibility or you put it out to agencies – there are several agencies around the world who can do this."
Rally Sweden distributed the coverage it underwrote at a cost of €300,000 to 30 broadcasters, ensuring the Jari-Matti Latvala's victory on the Karlstad-based event was seen in more than 120 territories last week.
Watched the coverage yesterday having recorded it all weekend. For those who don’t listen to RallyRadio or are not aware, the one commentator on MotorsTV coverge, was Colin Clarke (the Scottish one), the usual stage end reporter from pretty much every rally in the last 5yrs or more. So has an outstanding knowledge of all things WRC!
Hope he has more work commentating on the rest of the season as it was good banter between them both. And wasn’t just mumble jumble chucked together at the last minute.
Hope he has more work commentating on the rest of the season as it was good banter between them both. And wasn’t just mumble jumble chucked together at the last minute.
The boy is doing bloody well, pciking up the points and learning all the events 
Ive just seen that at rally Finland , the fasest stage in the world will be back... and as the power stage!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-NWjMjZlMM&fea...
Ive just seen that at rally Finland , the fasest stage in the world will be back... and as the power stage!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-NWjMjZlMM&fea...
And it would be rude not to post a video of the stage record!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMLbn4PmGes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0xFXOB5EHc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMLbn4PmGes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0xFXOB5EHc
forgot to tag this onto my last post 
NO MEXICO FOR SORDO
Sordo, who started the 2012 WRC campaign with an outstanding second place at Rally Monte Carlo, will now miss rally Mexico this is presumably because of lack of sponsorship and the recent split of BMW and Prodrive
Since BMW and Prodrive decided to go there separate ways and the MINI works team collapsed because of the split, Prodrive will continue in their WRC campaign as a private team with Dani Sordo as there main driver and the second drivers seat given to paid drivers at selected rally's . Also with the split comes a revised calendar for the Prodrive team only competing in the european events of the season.
Dani Sordo and the Prodrive team will instead travel to Spain for testing and development on new components and to prepare for Rally Portugal. Armindo Araujo and Paulo Nobre will still contest the Mexican round of the WRC under WRC Team MINI Portugal.
NO MEXICO FOR SORDO
Sordo, who started the 2012 WRC campaign with an outstanding second place at Rally Monte Carlo, will now miss rally Mexico this is presumably because of lack of sponsorship and the recent split of BMW and Prodrive
Since BMW and Prodrive decided to go there separate ways and the MINI works team collapsed because of the split, Prodrive will continue in their WRC campaign as a private team with Dani Sordo as there main driver and the second drivers seat given to paid drivers at selected rally's . Also with the split comes a revised calendar for the Prodrive team only competing in the european events of the season.
Dani Sordo and the Prodrive team will instead travel to Spain for testing and development on new components and to prepare for Rally Portugal. Armindo Araujo and Paulo Nobre will still contest the Mexican round of the WRC under WRC Team MINI Portugal.
TankRS said:
forgot to tag this onto my last post
NO MEXICO FOR SORDO
Sordo, who started the 2012 WRC campaign with an outstanding second place at Rally Monte Carlo, will now miss rally Mexico this is presumably because of lack of sponsorship and the recent split of BMW and Prodrive
Since BMW and Prodrive decided to go there separate ways and the MINI works team collapsed because of the split, Prodrive will continue in their WRC campaign as a private team with Dani Sordo as there main driver and the second drivers seat given to paid drivers at selected rally's . Also with the split comes a revised calendar for the Prodrive team only competing in the european events of the season.
Dani Sordo and the Prodrive team will instead travel to Spain for testing and development on new components and to prepare for Rally Portugal. Armindo Araujo and Paulo Nobre will still contest the Mexican round of the WRC under WRC Team MINI Portugal.
I still don't get it......NO MEXICO FOR SORDO
Sordo, who started the 2012 WRC campaign with an outstanding second place at Rally Monte Carlo, will now miss rally Mexico this is presumably because of lack of sponsorship and the recent split of BMW and Prodrive
Since BMW and Prodrive decided to go there separate ways and the MINI works team collapsed because of the split, Prodrive will continue in their WRC campaign as a private team with Dani Sordo as there main driver and the second drivers seat given to paid drivers at selected rally's . Also with the split comes a revised calendar for the Prodrive team only competing in the european events of the season.
Dani Sordo and the Prodrive team will instead travel to Spain for testing and development on new components and to prepare for Rally Portugal. Armindo Araujo and Paulo Nobre will still contest the Mexican round of the WRC under WRC Team MINI Portugal.
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