WRC07 starts in Buenos Aires!!!

[Lalo]

http://www.wrc.com/page/News/BreakingNewsDetail/0,,10111~943863,00.html

Next year, the Rally Argentina will begin with a superspecial stage in Buenos Aires, in the River Plate Stadium! That's just 5km away from my house!! It's amazing! I never had the chance of going to Cordoba (it's 700km away and since it had been moved to april, my chances of going were vanished), and now people who live here can have a li'l taste of the WRC next year. I'm so happy to hear these news!!

A los argentinos: avisen por favor si saben donde conseguir las entradas para el estadio! Se van a agotar muy rapido!
(To the argentinian pals: please let all of us know where we can get the tickets to the stadium! I'm prety sure they're gonna run out of 'em prety quick!).

[J4MIE]

Madness...... :\

[bowler]

Madness...... :\

money and exposure

[bowler]

on reading the WRC.com news release, it does not say that it has been approved

[Koppomsbo]

so this means that the crews have a transport stage of 700km just to drive a mickey mouse stage??

[SubaruNorway]

As i said in anhoter thread thats about the same as the total transport in Rally Norway total madness if you ask me

[Donney]

Congratulations Lalo, make the best of it because if it happens it is going to be once in a lifetime.

[jonas_mcrae]

teams are not going to like it

[Viktory]

I thought having an SSS in Karlstad (about 90 km transport from service) was crazy :p
I doubt this will work.

[Simmi]

Lets get one thing straight to avoid confusion. They wouldn't make the drivers personally drive to the super special they and the cars would be transported down there. I cant decide whether it beats what Greece did and move the entire rally on the basis of a super special stage.

[J4MIE]

Lets get one thing straight to avoid confusion. They wouldn't make the drivers personally drive to the super special they and the cars would be transported down there. I cant decide whether it beats what Greece did and move the entire rally on the basis of a super special stage.

Of course, the cars would be transported in trailers/lorries etc. But it's still more than the teams will want to do. They don't want Monte to be in 2 different locations and that's nothing like 700km.

It's like having RallyGB come to Aberdeen to do a SSS. And that is just crazy.

:down:

[Micke_VOC]

totally crazy and madness...

[Bjorn240]

As someone who lives in a big country with small interest in rally, I actually think this is not such a bad idea, and more to the point, is the type of thing with which we will have to put up to compete with F1 etc.

If the logistics can be worked out to the satisfaction of the teams, I think it is a way to bring rally to the people.

[ste898]

There is no way that will be approved the 'modern day' driver could'nt cope with driving that far!!!!!

[Tomi]

i would not mind if they would skip all the superspecials, and consentrate on rally instead.

[CABAIO E'LONA]

bad news for the Argentina Rally....really bad news...

[jso1985]

really mad idea....
I don't think it will be aproved