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Are one of the long term aims of Dirtfish also to lift the US championship to a larger sport in America?
I like what Mr Rimmer have done so far, both on Dirtfish and his Rallycar collection!

They have hired a very good team so far, so they could do it, to get more TV coverage, and by that more money into the sport in US/Canada.
Is that their aim?

If North America would embrace the rallysport, by getting it into TV, ala WRC in a light version, it could become huge over there!
 
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Following the fallout of Autosport/ Motorsport News, with David Evans moving to Dirtfish, others from that stable have set up a new magazine/website called The Race. However, rallying isn't among their portfolio.

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In quite a few countries you have to marke paid content to stay within the law.

What we kind of see here as that two of the main rally journalists moved from semi-promotional positions at autosport and wrc+ to an outift which might even publish fully commercial content.

We'll see how it pans out in the long term.
 
AndyRAC said:
Following the fallout of Autosport/ Motorsport News, with David Evans moving to Dirtfish, others from that stable have set up a new magazine/website called The Race. However, rallying isn't among their portfolio.

F1, MotoGP, Indycar, FE, e-sports
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Is this where Jack Benyon has gone, as he's also just bailed out of Autosport ?
 
And on Dirtfish, I have to say the quantity of content and interviews has been pretty impressive so far.

They have really gone all-out at Rally Sweden and come up with some good comment and interviewed some new people.

But I wonder how long it will stay free ?
 
It'll stay free for a long time I think. Their goal seems to be to build a larger fanbase for rallying in America, you can't work on that behind a paywall.
 
Fast Eddie WRC said:
And on Dirtfish, I have to say the quantity of content and interviews has been pretty impressive so far.

They have really gone all-out at Rally Sweden and come up with some good comment and interviewed some new people.
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absolutely agreed, im so glad that they came into the scene. this is the level that wrc.com should have, unfortunately they dont and now having dirtfish, i dont even care about wrc.com (not that i really did before too)

good videos, articles and interviews during the rallies, and let alone today there has been like 5 articles from them.

good job so far and i understood from Colin there will be even more stuff coming.
 
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They are quite reveal important news in quite a weeks now. While Autosport just guess and then sometimes hit the right news. And mostly was just nothing what we already knew. Just my opinion. I know it's the same people that are working but clearly they have better management.
 
deephouse said:
While Autosport just guess and then sometimes hit the right news. And mostly was just nothing what we already knew. Just my opinion. I know it's the same people that are working but clearly they have better management.
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I'm not sure Autosport care too much about rallying; for most of the weekend, the main part of the home page had nothing about Rally Sweden - it was the best part of an hour before Evans win appeared. And with The Race not bothering with rallying, Dirtfish seems to be the only place for English language coverage of the sport. And they've made an impressive start.
 
Yes. As an US fan I'm naturally skeptical of any US millionaire that gets interested in rally for a few years only to drop off when something else attractive comes along. So far and good - not to mention so much commitment with their hiring spree.
 
You would hope that D.Evans and C.Clark joining them was a good sign that DF is into rally for the long-term.

And its good to see Colin Clark is still doing his own Kitchen Table vlogs (albeit now with a DF microphone !)

https://youtu.be/wwZOqL74dFo
 
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https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-disaster-of-rally-portugal-1986/
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Despite that sad memory, opening DirtFish site during this week to read David Evans pieces on Rally de Portugal history was a really nice way to cheer up Portuguese fans for not being at the stages, watching WRC heros and theirs mindblowing machines. Huge thanks to Evans and dirtfish.com crew for this RdP special!

My favourite pieces of the week:
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/alen-beats-mikkola-in-epic-finish-the-1978-rally-portugal/
https://dirtfish.com/rally/what-makes-portugal-such-a-challenge/
https://dirtfish.com/rally/the-best-portuguese-drivers-from-six-decades-of-rallying/
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-best-photography-of-rally-portugal/
 
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