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WRC Calendar 2027

David Richards has never been shy hyping projects. Not surprised to hear him talk up the possibility of the UK round of the 2027 WRC turning out to be in the highlight of the season.

 
talking about calendars, motogp is doing a 'street course' in adelaide next year.
i hope i got that wrong, otherwise the "click here to find single moms in your area" will stonks in italia and españa
 
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Absolute politician:

"There are no midges here
..It's er..
..You know you could er..
..It's great to be back in Scotland"
 
I know this is mere fantasy at this point but if they could do something like this for next year, I wish they would go:
🇲🇨🇸🇪🇲🇽🇭🇷🇵🇾🇵🇹🇮🇹(Sardegna Still)🇰🇪🇫🇮🇩🇪🇬🇷🇫🇷(Corsica)🇦🇺🇬🇧(Scotland) that would be much nicer than what they have in store.
 
We’re nearing September and we still don’t have a calendar and I’m sorry I think at this point if they haven’t found a replacement for one of next year’s round they should simply drop it and have a reduced calendar, I think if anything, anyone participating next year will be thankful to have one less (if not two) round(s) to contend.
 
So, president of Croatian automobile and karting federation said, that under the current contract, Croatia will have WRC event in 2027.
Also, he sad that promotor is offering them a additional three year contract.

sport.hrt.hr

Markt o budućnosti Croatia Rallyja: "Postoji mogućnost da odemo do Dubrovnika"

U emisiji Sportske minute urednika i voditelja Borisa Jelavića, gostovali su predsjednik Hrvatskog auto i karting saveza Robert Markt te direktor Rallyja u Kumrovcu Luka Devunić.
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That's because Monte-Carlo still doesn't have contract for 2027. Because it's always season opener, and we are already so late in the current season, someone would assume they should already agreed on deal, but it's weird.
 
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No hate, it's not my ideal calendar, but commercially-speaking IMHO the best one would be the following:

🇲🇨 Monte Carlo
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇲🇽 Mexico
🇺🇸 USA - Tennessee
🇰🇪 Kenya
🇪🇸 Spain - Catalunya
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇬🇷 Acropolis (involving Stadium SSS)
(summer break)
🇫🇮Finland
🇮🇹 Italy-Rome
🇬🇧 Scotland
🇵🇾 Paraguay
🇨🇱 Chile
🇨🇳 China
🇮🇩 Indonesia
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
 
Eli said:
I know this is mere fantasy at this point but if they could do something like this for next year, I wish they would go:
🇲🇨🇸🇪🇲🇽🇭🇷🇵🇾🇵🇹🇮🇹(Sardegna Still)🇰🇪🇫🇮🇩🇪🇬🇷🇫🇷(Corsica)🇦🇺🇬🇧(Scotland) that would be much nicer than what they have in store.
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No hate too but I've already made one I'd like for them to do: the one mentioned above.
 
I just wish they'd come out with something soon, although seeing as they can't even make a decision on the last round this year i don't hold out much hope.
 
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No hate too but I've already made one I'd like for them to do: the one mentioned above.
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With few some exceptions (Croatia out for a classic Catalunya, Australia out for NZ), I'd love to agree for such a calendar.

But, as I said, commercially speaking it's very poor. Rallies like Corsica, Sardinia, Croatia couldn't bring things like: market penetration, ancillary revenues (hospitality, luxury fan experiences, big brands, value for manufacturers, etc).

Let me elaborate with a few examples:
- Greece is a small market, but they are able to set up a high-budget (EKO is the storefront brand of Helleniq Petroleum, which recently signed a MoU with Chevron to explore gas and oil on the Mediterranean sea) rally infrastructure for the event;
- Sardinia is part of Italy, a very important car market in Europe, but can't bring huge amount of fans and, due to the fact the event is in an island, is unattractive on a sponsorship point of view;
- Corsica has a whole population of 300k people, while most of the French people can afford to go more easily to a rally like Monte Carlo.

These aspects will be highly considerated and listening to Eric Bouiller, they will base their decisions and contracts based on that. Which makes totally sense for a commercial promoter. For that reason I can't feel it's fair to blame them for pushing USA or Chinese markets first.
 
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With few some exceptions (Croatia out for a classic Catalunya, Australia out for NZ), I'd love to agree for such a calendar.

But, as I said, commercially speaking it's very poor. Rallies like Corsica, Sardinia, Croatia couldn't bring things like: market penetration, ancillary revenues (hospitality, luxury fan experiences, big brands, value for manufacturers, etc).

Let me elaborate with a few examples:
- Greece is a small market, but they are able to set up a high-budget (EKO is the storefront brand of Helleniq Petroleum, which recently signed a MoU with Chevron to explore gas and oil on the Mediterranean sea) rally infrastructure for the event;
- Sardinia is part of Italy, a very important car market in Europe, but can't bring huge amount of fans and, due to the fact the event is in an island, is unattractive on a sponsorship point of view;
- Corsica has a whole population of 300k people, while most of the French people can afford to go more easily to a rally like Monte Carlo.

These aspects will be highly considerated and listening to Eric Bouiller, they will base their decisions and contracts based on that. Which makes totally sense for a commercial promoter. For that reason I can't feel it's fair to blame them for pushing USA or Chinese markets first.
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I agree with you, regarding Catalunya, it's just I was trying to be fair to the current contract of Croatia. And you'd also think with Germany still being a relatively big car market they'd try to push there but from what I understand, the economy there isn't strong enough to hold an event there and ADAC who had the reins for 17 years also has run dry from money.
 
I think that hosting an event doesn't mean they want just for "big car market", but also acomodations and tourism. Croatia for example (I honestly was very surprised when first news came out that they want to host the event, and eventually they got it, as there is literally no motorsport interest). Basically half of stuff is from neighbour Slovenia, which is way smaller, so I was really, what the hell. Ok, but Croatia have huge tourism factor. Practically whole Europe travel there on vacation as country is rich on vacation aspect (at least this was before they entered in Europe Union, as prices skyrocketed there, and nation is somehow become very hungry for money). They basically live because of sea, and when you go in the heart of country, there is literally nothing except capital of Zagreb. But they are good at football and are very proud of it, so I was again very surprised when this came out. I live in that neighbour small country, so I'm pretty close to it, and at the end I'm glad that at least something is close to me, as next the closest event is Sardegna and then it was CER.
 
USA is Rally TVs single biggest market. And if attracting manufacturers is important, being there helps. Entry lists have nothing to do with it.

But, the geographical spread of ARA National is much larger than ERC and has more regular starters. And the entry lists of the ARA rallies are split between the national and regional championships - which also each get regular starters and still cover more ground than European countries like Latvia, Estonia and Croatia - and local drivers.

Add also the early collapses of AAA and ACA allowed a free market for motorsport sanctioning, so there are all sorts of rally racing, rally sprint, auto-whatever series similar to rally for legal or whatever reasons. Not all are affiliated with ACCUS, the FIA member. Motorsport is huge there, taking WRC would help ARA/USAC become the focal point, which could also concentrate entries.
 
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