So it begins (splintering of Canadian rallysport?)
Posted by dreamsofjvl
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As an albertan, I understand the difficulties you can encounter when trying to understand the concept of nation... or culture
 . I worked in your country this summer (Grande Prairie).
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Who was that directed at? Power means nothing if you cannot control it! |
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Does it matter? Just some frenchie getting his panties in a knot that Quebec is just another province of Canada, and nobody else cares about the matter 
But yes, what an extreme challenge. So extreme, the headlining entry (Joel Levac in his WRC mini) didn't even bother to show up. But its extreme! And getting so much exposure! Well, probably so much exposure for how empty Tremblay's pockets are going to be after all of this. Good riddance to good rubbish. Unless NASA is giving him a sweetheart deal and this can continue to flounder on, I have no idea how a series can survive on 5 car fields without someone losing serious coin. |
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That seems a bit uncalled for. I know your provincial government sits in the National Assembly and that Quebeckers pride themselves in being a 'distinct society' within Canada. But notwithstanding that, Quebec is still a province within Canada. More to the point the CXE GCRs state:
Which they have translated as:
Now, we're talking about a championship where the furthest distance between events us under 500km, or less than half the span of the province of Quebec. We also saw one of the sponsors/competitors talking about competing in a 'National Championship' again, and his last championship he competed in was the Canadian Rally Championship. For me, the CXE doesn't really pass the sniff test of being a National Championship... but it does raise the question of what it takes to be considered a 'National' championship. • The CXE seems to be hanging its hat on stage length, >200km of stage per event, but last I looked the BRC event lengths, looking at a well established national championship, were well below that. • Can a National Championship be physically compact and restricted to a small region of the country, as long as it draws competitors from across the country? I'd say there IS an argument for that, and perhaps that is the vision behind the CXE. • Does a National Championship need to include events from across the country? The CRC is reasonably inclusive, but there are many other series that call themselves 'national championships' that are strictly eastern based. Does a National Championship have to be a towing championship? No matter the answer, I'm hard pressed to see a championship that happens along a 500km corridor in Canada, with only local entrants, as being a National Championship. But, I'd love to hear a rationalization for it. I suppose Baseball has the World Series that is anything but, there is the Miss Universe pagent, with stricty Terran contestants... Perhaps Inter Galactic Rally Championship seemed like too much of a reach. First Rally attended (2000), First Rally competed in (2001) Cars Built (1), Engines Built (0) Cages Built (0) Driver (8), Co-Driver (47), Drivers (19) Clerk (29), Steward (1), Official (17), Volunteer (5) WRC Spectator (1), WRC Photographer (6), WRC Observer (4) Rallies attended (120) Countries attended rallies in (11) Last Updated, May30, 2022 |
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You guys forgot about the ELITE part. What a shitshow!
And I forgot to mention, they are building zero cars! 
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