WRC back on US TV!!!

[R22B]

Television coverage of the FIA World Rally Championship will be available to millions of households in the USA later this year thanks to a new partnership between series promoters, ISC, and the Discovery Channel's HD Theater network.
WRC programming will be shown weekly on HD Theater starting in October. As well as coverage from every round of the championship, a range of other features and news bulletins will be shown.

Read more here…
(http://www.livesockets.com/article.php?id=2399&siteID=rallymadness)

[olmytsi]

Don't have HD channels...****!

[DocWalt]

I don' have cable, but HELL YES! Now it'll be easy to find streams online.

[Nors]

I was about to post this. Awesome news!! Speed was stupid for discontinueing WRC coverage.

[WKderF]

absolutely AWESOME. This is good news.

[92dxman]

Supposedly it was a money issue for Speed when it came time for renewal a couple years ago. That is why they cut it..

[angdefeo]

Great news, post some updates later in the year to remind us all.

[Ender81]

This is cool, I watch HD Theater a lot already so this is just one more thing.

[marshallpre1]

AWESOME.. Thanks for the news!

[jpalamar]

I haven't seen that stuff on TV for awhile. Good to know.

[DocWalt]

I hate that Mosley is all about making money, he doesn't give a damn about the sport, I watched an interview, he said something along the lines of "I hope it gets big, like Formula One, where everything is awesome." The teams HATE the rules in F1, the rules they're starting to impose on WRC are going to do as much damage here as they have to F1. They removed active diffs a while back, they're putting restrictions on everything (I understand the safety aspect, but why restrict tech advancements?) and they might force the teams to not use turbos? Seriously wtf is the FIA thinking? The worst thing that could happen to any motorsport is to be absorbed by the FIA...

/rant

[012.5RS]

AWESOME!!! now i gotta get a hd box.

[R22B]

I hate that Mosley is all about making money, he doesn't give a damn about the sport, I watched an interview, he said something along the lines of "I hope it gets big, like Formula One, where everything is awesome." The teams HATE the rules in F1, the rules they're starting to impose on WRC are going to do as much damage here as they have to F1. They removed active diffs a while back, they're putting restrictions on everything (I understand the safety aspect, but why restrict tech advancements?) and they might force the teams to not use turbos? Seriously wtf is the FIA thinking? The worst thing that could happen to any motorsport is to be absorbed by the FIA...

/rant

Super 2000 rules take affect soon... All naturally aspirated engines, no AWD and a few other "downgrades" from the current WRC rules. I understand they are trying to make it cheaper, but competition breeds innovation.

This is going to have a negative affect like when they banned Group B. The viewship dropped astronomically. Max Mosley's time is up. He ruined F1 and now he's ruining WRC.

[DocWalt]

That's exactly my point. Max is leaving, but the damage is done.

[den9]

Supposedly it was a money issue for Speed when it came time for renewal a couple years ago. That is why they cut it..

i heard it was because of nascar

nascar gets more viewers.


why would they take out turbos and especially awd?

[R22B]

i heard it was because of nascar

nascar gets more viewers.


why would they take out turbos and especially awd?

To make it more affordable for manufacturers... or to relive the time prior to 1983.