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Issue 50 2019

The digital rally magazine

WRC+ All Live

2019 SEASON PREVIEW

50TH ISSUE

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Throwback 2018 1/3 Monte Carlo will be the traditional season opener in 2019 agan

throwback 2018 2/3 2019 will be the year of the truth for neuville and hyundai. it's time for championships

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throwback 2018 3/3 new cars usually don't form a problem for ogier to win in monte, will 2019 be any different?

Editor’s note 50 Issues and counting

By Steven van Veenendaal

Dear reader ,

A number of years ago we were sitting at a sidewalk café in downtown Mikolajki, a few kilometres away from the hustle and bustle of the WRC service park. Earlier that afternoon Rally Poland had finished and we had just sent out the final story to our then-publisher. As we contemplated another great WRC week, one thing stood out: there was so much to talk about, so many stories to write but so little space to do it in. We just had much more material then we could realistically ever put to print. Understandably, print magazines have strict rules when it comes to the number of words one can put in an article. So you had an exclusive one-on-one with Seb Ogier?

Great for you, unfortunately that doesn’t change the fact that you have just four pages and need to cover the entire event. Dedicate 100 words to your exclusive interview and try to squeeze it in best you can.

The internet loomed as a solution. Infinite amounts of space to write whatever you can and share it with whomever you like. However running a rally news website requires you to be 100% involved all the time to stay up to speed with other news sites. You’d have to do it to stay relevant, but would it be realistic to do so next to other daytime jobs and life in general? Also, would it not take away from the urge to write the other stories? The stuff that goes on behind the scenes, the stuff that is not part of the regular news chunks that motorsport news sites churn out in bunches? Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with news websites, I follow them closely to stay up to date on what’s going on. It’s just not what we wanted to do. So we said “f --- it” let’s do it ourselves.

Two months later, Rally-eMag was born. It started out as an idea and rather than thinking about it too much, we just started creating and pushing issues. Looking back, the first issues look nothing like the current format.

But still they’re pretty cool to see, to see the development of the magazine. It’s been very tough at times. Work, studies, newly borns, and on a more serious note, illness as well, all came along. They all took time and all could have been reasons to stop. Honestly, there have been many moments along the way the last 5 years where we came very close to pulling the plug. But something always happened. New contributors or interviewees came along, and they where often the ones creating new sparks of enthusiasm that kept us going. Thanks for inspiring us Kevin Abbring, Ken Block, Eric Camilli, Jost Capito, Oliver Ciesla, Andy Crayford, Jon Desborough, Elvyn Evans, Dre Galiart, Tara Hurlin, Michael Jenkins, Jack de Keizer, Sven Kollus, Erik van ‘t Land, Jari-Matti Latvala, Jean Baptiste Ley, Tommi Makinen, Marek Nawarecki, Thierry Neuville, Sebastien Ogier, Alain Penasse, Martin Prokop, Bas Romeny, Janneke Roozendaal, Anna Louise Rudd, Alex Rodriguez de Cabo, Ott Tanak, Marko Viitanen,Thomas Weng, Mark Wilford, Becs Williams, Malcolm Wilson and all others who at some point featured in the magazine.

And now we’re here. 50 Issues. We never thought we’d make it that far. Strong sponsorship deals never materialized, so we always had to keep it as a side project, but who cares? It’s been a great one that allowed us to make some great content and most importantly meet many great people! Thanks everyone, and here’s to another 50!

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Rally Fin Rally Sweden

Round 9 of 14 1-4 August

Round 2 of 14 14-17 February

Rally Germany

Wales Rally GB

Round 10 of 14 22-25 August

Round 12 of 14 3-6 October

Rallye Monte Carlo Round 1 of 14 24-27 January

Azores Airlines Rally Round 1 of 8 21-23 March

Rally Portugal Rally Islas Canarias

Round 7 of 14 30 May -2 June

Rally Mexico Round 3 of 14 7-10 March

Rally Spain Round 13 of 14 24-27 October

Round 2 of 8 2-4 May

Tour de Corse Round 4 of 14 28-31 March

WRC Calendar 2019 1. Rallye Monte Carlo 24-27 January 2. Rally Sweden 14-17 February 3. Rally Mexico 7-10 March 4. Tour de Corse 29-31 March 5. Rally Argentina 25-28 April 6. Rally Chile 9-12 May 7. Rally Portugal 30 May - 2 June 8. Rally Italy 13-16 June 9. Rally Finland 1-4 August 10.Rally Germany 22-25 August 11. Rally Turkey 12-15 September 12. Wales Rally GB 3-6 October 13. Rally Spain 24-27 October 14. Rally Australia 14-17 November

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Rally Chile Round 6 of 14 9-12 May

Rally Argentina Round 5 of 14 25-28 April

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Rally Poland Round 4 of 8 28-30 June

Barum Czech Rally Zlin Round 6 of 8 16-18 August

Rally di Roma Capitale Round 5 of 8 19-21 July

Rally Hungary Round 8 of 8 8-10 November

Rally Turkey Rally Italy Round 8 of 14 13-16 June

Round 11 of 14 12-15 September

Cyprus Rally Round 7 of 8 27-29 September

ERC Calendar 1. Azores Airlines Rally 2. Rally Islas Canarias 3. Rally Liepaja 4. Rally Poland 5. Rally di Roma Capitale 6. Barum Czech Rally Zlin 7. Cyprus Rally 8. Rally Hungary

2019 21-23 March 2-4 May 24-26 May 28-30 June 25-28 April 9-12 May 27-29 September 8-10 November

Rally Australia Round 14 of 14 14-17 November

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The 2018 WRC season was one of the closest championships of all time. It took the drivers till only a few stages before the end of the season to decide that Sébastien Ogier was the best again. But like we said both Thierry Neuville and Ott Tänak did not make it a walk over for the now 6 times world champion Ogier.

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After the season’s closing gala in Sydney the silly season had not completely ended as we found during December and even January 2019! We will now take you for a walk along the teams and look forward to the new season.

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citroen total world rally team Citroen C3 WRC Sebastien Ogier-Julien Ingrassia Esapekka Lappi-Janne Ferm Citroen will start this year with number 1 on Sebastien Ogier’s car so we start with the French team. After a somewhat mediocre season, the team made clear it expected more of it’s efforts in WRC. Already halfway the 2018 season they sacked Kris Meeke and did not show a clear sense of direction. Luckily Sébastien Loeb won them a rally this year. Though both Mads Ostberg and Craig Breen showed some good results it was not enough as it only brought them a fourth place in the manufacturer’s standings. Not enough to justify the amounts of money the PSA group has been putting into the team. So it was no surprise Sébastien Ogier was seduced to join his old team again. Another acquisition was Esapekka Lappi. The young Finnish driver felt he had to do the next step in his career. Or, as he said himself, when I saw Mads Østberg’s performance in Finland I knew I had to go to Citroen!”

So their line-up was almost complete, the only question left was: who would fill the third seat? Both Breen and Ostberg were in the race

Image: Andy Crayford - Crayfordmedia.com

if we may believe social media. But then the bomb exploded: Abu Dhabi took a sabbatical withdrawing their sponsorship for at least a year to review their options, as it said in a press release. Citroen rapidly answered by stating the team would stay a two-car team. Mads Ostberg was the first to react.

“No Citroen seat for me next year, but we keep on fighting to come back on the top level in WRC!” It took Craig Breen somewhat longer to admit the same. Just after Christmas he posted a video, recorded on an Australian beach where he was spending the holiday season with his sister and other relatives living there. The message was clear: “I have no seat for 2019 yet, but we are working very hard to arrange something.” Another whisper from the social media also died. Sébastien Loeb would not be doing a (part time) program. Also Sheik Khalid Al-Qassimi will lose his occasional seat.

Having only two cars the fight for the manufacturer’s title will be quite difficult, but having someone like Ogier in your ranks is never a bad thing if you’re aiming for the driver’s title.

m-sport ford world rally team m-sport ford fiesta wrc elvyn evans-scott martin teemu suninen-marko salminen pontus tidemand-ola floene* After two highly successful years, bringing the team a Manufacturer title and two drivers’ titles (both for Sebastien Ogier) 2019 will be a totally different year for the British team. As he told at several occasions team founder and director Malcolm Wilson fought for every possible chance to stay on the highest level in rallying. Though there was a considerable involvement of Ford, the American carmaker did not want to commit to the team in such a way that it would be an official manufacturers team. Though both Gerard Quinn the European motorsport man of Ford as well as Malcolm Wilson keep on saying that without the Ford support this success would not have been possible, for Sebastien Ogier it was not enough. He would have liked to stay as he really felt at home at the team. But the lack of commitment of Ford, as he felt it, made him choose for the fully committed French manufacturer.

For a long time after Australia we did not hear from M-Sport. That is we heard a lot of speculation and even some strong rumors fuelled by remarks of Malcolm Wilson, that the team would perhaps be leaving the WRC. The driver’s line-up caused a frantic discussion on Twitter and the likes. Mads Østberg, Craig Breen and Haydon Paddon were the obvious subjects, but also Elfyn Evans and Pontus Tidemand have often been mentioned. One driver (Teemu Suninen) had a contract so if the team would continue Suninen would be part of it. It took until the Friday before Christmas for M-Sport to finally break the silence and announce their plans for 2019. Elfyn Evans will start his fifth season for the squad, and Teemu Suninen will start his third season. It was also announced that Pontus Tidemand would ‘support’ the team in Monte Carlo and Sweden. There was a lot of news on the co-driver’s field as well. In fact all drivers will have a different co-driver compared to last year. Dan Barritt, who was in the hot seat next to Evans last year, will be involved in Toyota’s Racing Rally Challenge Program in a WRC2 program next to young talent Takamoto Katsuta. Evan’s co-driver will be Scott Martin, Craig Breen’s former co-driver. Teemu Suninen also has a new co-driver, Marko Salminen.

Image: Andy Crayford - Crayfordmedia.com

But arguably the biggest news was the announcement that Malcolm Wilson would step back from the day-to-day business of running the WRC team. The role of team principal will be taken over by Richard Millener, who has also been involved in the team for quite some time. Malcolm Wilson however will definitely not retire. “In this way he can”, as the press release states, “devote more time to the commercial side of M-Sport as a business”. * Partial program; two events

hyundai shell mobis world rally team hyundai i20 coupe wrc Thierry neuville-nicolas gilsoul andreas mikkelsen-anders jaeger dani sordo-carlos del barrio* sebastien loeb-daniel elena** Though the Korean team definitely was not without success in the 2018 season, their achievement was generally seen as, not the result they had been hoping for. Neuville was a serious contender in the title fight but in the end could not deliver. Sordo and Paddon, sharing one car throughout the season did would could be expected, gaining valuable points for the manufacturer’s championship. Andreas Mikkelsen however did not seem to be able to come to grips with his rallycar. A third place in Sweden was an early promise for good things to come. A fourth place in Mexico was not bad either, but that was about it. There always was initial speed, but somewhere further in the rally’s he seemed to lose his confidence. Team principal Michel Nandan however did not lose this confidence and awarded the two-year contract the Norwegian has. So Neuville and Mikkelsen were in the game for 2019, which left Sordo and Paddon in the dark. In the end Michel Nandan presented Sebastien Loeb with a two-year contract proposal. For the first year (2019) it included six rallies. Haydon was offered one event but he declined the offer. So for the moment he is without a seat for the coming season.

Then in early January a press announcement landed in our in box. ‘Hyundai Motorsport announces WRC management change’ the caption read. Reading the statement we came to the conclusion Michel Nandan had been sacked, or, as the statement said: Team * Partial program; eight events ** Partial program: six events

Image: Andy Crayford - Crayfordmedia.com

Principal Michel Nandan will be departing the company after six years. Nowhere in this statement we could read something about the reason of his premature departing. There must have been serious reasons for him to be leaving the team at this time, only weeks before the start of the season. As there is no official statement we can only guess why this happened. Probably on a high level in the Hyundai management there was a lot of disappointment about the team not winning any championships. Someone had to be the scapegoat and in this case it was Michel Nandan. The new team director will be Andrea Adamo whom we know from his role as Customer racing manager and more particularly as the man in charge of developing the i20 R5. Apart from his duties as WRC manager he will continue to be responsible for the customer projects in R5 in rally and for the i30 N TCR program.

We probably won’t see the change of management will really change the results, but bringing Loeb into the team may very well make a difference. Loeb confirmed that Thierry Neuville will be the lead driver and that he would at any point be prepared to step down a bit to secure the chances of Neuville becoming the next champion. With a sure point scorer as Sordo and maybe a revived Mikkelsen this could make Hyundai a very strong team. A small problem is that Loeb has very little time to recover from his Dakar adventure and also the fact that he hardly had any seat time in the i20. In the week between Dakar and Monte Carlo he will do his first serious tests in his new car.

toyota gazoo racing toyota yaris wrc ott tanak-martin jarveoja jari-matti latvala-mikka antiila kris meeke-seb marshall After a very successful 2018 season the team is one of the favorites for both championship titles.

Ott Tanak is showing a lot of speed and is building more and more on his consistency. The same more or less goes for Jari-Matti Latvala who, especially towards the end of the season seems to be feeling quite at ease at his team and this is something the Finn needs to perform well. His victory in Australia for him was the icing on the cake. So we expect him to do well in 2019. Third man Kris Meeke is one of the fastest drivers in the field. There is no doubt about that. We know he had some consistency problems during his Citroen years. But the first signs are there, showing the Northern Irishman feels at ease in his new car. “Right after I took the wheel of the Yaris I was having fun again. This feels like a proper rally,” he said during a recent interview. “I have been struggling a lot with my former car. Mind you, I have not driven the latest evolution but the earlier evolutions did not make me feel at ease. At some points I was even afraid of the unpredict-

Image: Andy Crayford - Crayfordmedia.com

ability of the car. But like I said when I sat behind the wheel of the Yaris the feeling was there again, instantly!” Another factor is that Tommi Mäkinen has a lot of confidence in Meeke and vice versa. Of course we have to wait how fast Meeke can adapt to the new car and be really competitive. But looking at Tänak’s progress last year, the Yaris is a relatively friendly car plus the fact the car seems to feel at ease at lots of different surfaces. This all together makes Toyota a very serious contender.

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Both Andreas Mikkelsen and Anders Jaeger-Synnevaag his co driver were born in 1989. We are good friends. So it felt good to pick this number"

TEEMU SUNINEN - M-Sport Ford World Rally Team

He started his career in karting and at the time always carried number 33 on his kart. "So from 33 I dropped a 3 and now it is 3!"

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DANI SORDO - Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT

Has been using 6 for a couple of years. “Now I like it!" he says.

JARI MATTI LATVALA - Toyota Gazoo Racing

“During my first year In the Toyota team I carried number 10”, says Jari-Matti Latvala (10). It was a good year for me so I hope this will be the same in 2019. Saying that he covers the ‘0’ “and maybe next year I will get this number,” he smiles!”

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ANDREAS MIKKELSEN - Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT

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One of the WRC rule changes t pick their own numbers. All but with the #1) get to select numb for the season. Some of the cre to get creative (we see you Elfy (really Thierry? Double 1's? And less, hats off to mister Sordo.

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THIERRY NEUVILLE - Hyundai Shell Mobis WR

Thierry likes to double his chances to become number therefore introduces number 11, but, "I have some goo memories with this number in 2013 It was a very good and the first time I took the runner-up position the cha ship so I hope this number will bring me some extra lu

OTT TANAK - Toyota Gazoo Racing

Ott's choice goes back to the home country of the Toyota brand. “In Japan the number 8 is considered to be a lucky number so I hope this number will bring me some luck.”

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this year allows for drivers to t one (the champ has to run ber they want on their doors ews cherished the opportunity yn) while others got a bit corny d others just could not care

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SEBASTIEN LOEB - Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT

The main man had Dakarish obligations but had his PR manger let everyone know he picked 19 for several reasons.

“My daughter Valentine was born on the 19th but it also represents my one JWRC and 9 WRC tittles. And finally 19 years ago I had my start as an official WRC driver.”

Sebastien Ogier - Citroen Total World Rally Team

33 Meeke

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The only driver who was not allowed to pick his own number.

For him however that is not an issue: "Number 1 the number everyone wants! And I intend to keep it as long as possible"

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Esapekka Lappi - Citroen Total World Rally Team

Number 4 clearly belongs to the social media generation.

I can now use a hashtag , with 4 in my name. For the people less familiar with social media jargon he then further explained "So I can use

#L4PPI"

ELFYN EVANS - M-Sport Ford World Rally Team

The reason Suninen could not pick 33, as he was first to do so. “If you turn my initials (EE) backwards you get 33! That is why I picked this number!”

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KRIS MEEKE - Toyota Gazoo Racing

Meeke asked his four-year-old daughter to make a drawing of his car with a number on the side. “She did it and on the side was number 5,” said the proud father "so obviously I choose that number."

M-sport Ford fiesta r2 new jwrc challenger

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impossible A reality Words: Harry van Veenendaal Images: WRC Promoter

At the 2017 Rally Portugal we found ourselves in the WRC TV room, waiting for our interview with WRC Promoter Managing Director Oliver Ciesla. One of the many screens in the room showed an interview with DJI’s Janneke Roozendaal about drone footage in the WRC. Our fellow Dutchy caught our eye and although such an interview didn’t look out of the ordinary, the talkshow-like setting did.

It was something we hadn’t seen before in WRC context, and Ciesla’s grin hinted that shouldn’t have seen it either. At the same time though, it clearly showed he was quite enthusiastic about it. “Oh it’s just a test of something we are looking at. But it is far from ready. We’ll let you know when it is becoming something concrete.” In January 2018 we found out what it was: One of the first live tests of WRC+ All Live a broadcasting platform that is doing something seemingly impossible, cover a full rally all weekend, all live.

What is it?

By now, a year after it’s launch, everyone knows what it is.

It’s a live television show that starts with the first stage of every round of the World Rally Championship. Though they take a break at night, it runs throughout the whole event and finishes with the PowerStage and the following prize giving. All stages are shown live and in between the stages an anchor woman presents an ‘in-between’ show where she talks to drivers, team managers, local officials and everyone else with a direct link to rallying in general and the particular rally also. Of course at service time the reporters leave the studio and put a microphone under the noses of the drivers just arriving from the stage before.

Last but not least a well informed analyst gives his or her opinion on what is happening, so that is what it is, but how does that work out in the real program.

The team

The total team making this show include some one hundred people making it all possible. Just to give you an indication: this goes From Miss WRC TV Becs Williams via cameramen, technicians, directors to for example some four guys who install mini on-board camera’s in all the manufacturers cars equipped with on-board TV camera’s.

Before the rally they install and test all camera’s, during the event they make adjustments and small repairs and after the rally they take everything out again to bring back to the workshop for maintenance and repairs. At the next event the whole cycle starts again. You can easily understand this is a huge operation but as a tv viewer you’re just interested in the result.

What does it bring the WRC fan?

It does not bring you the dust in your hair nor the mud on your trousers or the smell of burning rubber, or an overheated engine at the stop finish. Also you don’t get soaking wet in a Welsh forest or a Finnish shakedown or freezing

cold in Sweden and overheated in Mexico. For the rest You get it all. We agree that all the aforementioned niceties are very important for the ‘Rally experience’ But so is knowing what’s happening in the field. How often did we come down a treacherous mountain road after spectating a very spectacular special stage and wondering what happened to the leading driver who right in front of your nose heavily impacted with a not so forgiving piece of landscape. While going down this treacherous road you are desperately trying to find an Internet signal or a radio station that can give you the answer. Very often it takes you quite some time to finally get the answer. Not in WRC All Live, seconds after a leading contender hits trouble the ALL LIVE staff knows and tells you about it. If you’re lucky a cameraman at the scene takes a microphone and interviews the victim with the eternal questions: “how are you and what happened?”

And you instantly know, sitting at home or any other place with a reasonable Internet connection. You can watch it from your comfortable chair behind your HD TV or other device and even from the pressroom of a WRC event.

The competition experience

We think we can rightly say, the competition experience is better than actually being there. You can see every stage live and in the unlikely event the fixed or on-board camera’s, drones or helicopters missed something the reporters will fill you in and very often show you fan footage of the unfortunate happening. All Live hosts Kiri Bloore, Alexandra Legouix or Abi Stephens will fill you in or ask rally guru Julian Porter or John Desborough to give their opinion.

Becs Williams is doing what she does best reporting from the stages with the help of a well-informed side kick like Desborough or a driver that just happens to be present.

At stage ends it is usually Molly Petit, Emyr Penlyn to last but not least the voice of rally,Wv Colin Clark. This team guarantees a coverage that nothing else can match.

Mads the commentator

It's getting better all the time

But then again we’ve been in the director’s truck during a live stage. Some 20 screens show you the feeds of all of the camera’s and other image sources. There are several technicians, but there is just one director making decisions in split seconds and shouting his orders. He is following several competitors and then he might see something will be happening and all of the sudden the feed dies on him, only to come back a few seconds later with the car in the field but missing the moment it got there. The Finnish NEP crew that is responsible for the feed you eventually get on your All Live screen is highly experienced and gets more experienced every event so we think it’s safe to say WRC+ All Live will even be better next year.

Never change a winning team?

When asked at the WRC launch in Birmingham, Oliver Ciesla told us there will be one major change: There will be a Spanish team bringing you all the news in Spanish. “With four events in Spanish speaking countries that is more than logical.“ So our advice for all WRC fans is: check it out, but beware of one thing: It is highly addictive!

A driver that just happened to be in Spain this year, but without a drive, was Mads Østberg. Though we would have preferred to see him in a full spec WRC, having him in the ‘hot seat’ next to Becks, might have been just as entertaining for the fans.

Not being a native speaker makes his English very clear and very good for non-native listeners. But his body of knowledge is the most important thing. While he follows a car on the screen he can tell us what will happen and explain why in such a way you understand it, especially if driving a hot WRC is not your day-to-day job. His special gift is that he delivers a lot of technical information but never gets boring by mixing in a fair dose of humour. As we said before we much prefer to see him in the bucket seat of a manufacturer’s car, but if that does not work out, bring him to the commentary box of All Live more often!

First round: 2019 World Rally Championship All Live: Schedule for the opening leg

A product so complicated can never be perfect in it’s first year. Some things can be changed, some cannot. If on the very first stage of the very first event of the extremely exciting 2018 season the weather conditions make it impossible to have a relay plane in the air, it is simply not possible to show live pictures. If cars run through forests with very thick wet foliage you can bring the helicopter in the sky but you can’t see the car and the wet foliage makes it impossible to send the on-board signal to the relay plane in the sky.

But let’s be happy the helicopter pilot is so experienced that he seems to have radar eyes and picks up the car at the moment the car appears again. But we think the TV crew will carefully watching the images again. Thus making notes of places where a drone or fixed camera would be extra nice. Also the use of the different on-board cameras could be improved slightly. The face cam is very exciting when something happens to see the expression on the face of the driver but it would perhaps be better to use in the daily updates. During live coverage we prefer to see what is happening by using of the camera’s showing the road. Also the cam showing the shock absorber is nice to show the roughness of the terrain but only for a short while. Use of fixed camera’s on the ground is always the best but hey this is not F1 we’re showing this is WRC. The battle field is not a closed circuit of less than 10 kilometre no it is situated in the middle of nowhere with no access to power, leave alone just getting there with all the equipment and staff. But

perhaps some viewing points may be reviewed.

rallye monte carlo

So this show is perfect?