Why isn't rally racing popular in the U.S.?

[bracut80]

America either likes to drive in a straight line or in circles.

 

[Malak]

I think Rally racing isn't popular because all the good rally cars aren't American made? We don't like Soccer either, wonder why?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

becuase your crap at it

in the world of rally finlanders are king. its their national sport. motor racing and rallying.

mika hakkinen (sp?) kimi raikkonen (sp?) marcus gronholm, tommi makinen
and theres more, racing drivers seems to be one of finlands biggest exports

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
becuase your crap at it

in the world of rally finlanders are king. its their national sport. motor racing and rallying.

mika hakkinen (sp?) kimi raikkonen (sp?) marcus gronholm, tommi makinen
and theres more, racing drivers seems to be one of finlands biggest exports

Right, because it's no fun rooting for a team that sucks. That's why we love Basketball.

Personally, I consider myself human, not American, so I can enjoy it anyway

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: Wadded Beef
Why isn't rally racing popular in the U.S.?

Why isn't baseball popular in England? Why isn't NASCAR popular in Germany? It is cultural. Most people like the music, sports, etc that they grew up with


Most US motor racing fans did not grow up with rallying.

 

[loic2003]

Originally posted by: Wadded Beef

Originally posted by: loic2003
Reasons:

You have to squeeze a lot of horsepower out of a small engine
You need to make one hell of a tough, efficient and reliable car
There are corners.
Thinking about stage times is much more difficult than seeing which car is in front of the pack of cars
You need to be able to use a manual gearbox
Because they're not winning already so they don't want to venture out from sports they already dominate in as it's bad for the country's jingoistic mentality

/Jeremy Clarkson

haha, is that from a magazine or the show?

Actually it was just me, but I thought it sounded like something JC would say

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
Why isn't baseball popular in England? Why isn't NASCAR popular in Germany? It is cultural. Most people like the music, sports, etc that they grew up with


Most US motor racing fans did not grow up with rallying.

Because baseball is almost as dull as cricket. No-one watches cricket here either apart from proper lah-di-dah's.

NASCAR is hideously boring, also. Staight lines or ovals == not very interesting.


I much prefer rallying to F1, personally. Sure, it may be half the speed but I think the cars are works of art. The speed they go over such rough terrain and the pounding they take is nothing short of jaw-dropping.

Check out the concentration of the driver's face when they're doing it... it's amazing. The amount of minute adjustments they make to the car is supreme. Have you ever seen when they have the camera pointed at their feet? It's like they're doing a rendition of the 'Riverdance' down there. These guys are proper talented.

The spectators are almost as mad as the drivers, too

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: iversonyin
cuz Americans cant make a car that handle like a rally car? opppps sorry fanboys....i dont mean it

Ford Focus WRC is a great rally car..
Colin McRae won the WRC championship with it.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

OK, I'm not a Nascar fan, my GF watches it though so i've seen some races and learned some about the tech. The fact that these cares can even turn with the amount of power they put out proves that they can handle well.

But to the topic, the reason Americans don't like ralley is because Americans are very competitive and racing head to head is more competitive than racing a clock.
And don't forget rubbing is racing and you can't rub time.

 

[MasterAndCommander]

'Cause we like large displacement, carburated V-8's with gobs of torque and HP going around in left-handed circles? Once Toyota starts racing in the car series, and perhaps win a few, the import fanboys will start jumping on the bandwagon

I'm not a fan of NASCAR... the cars are pretty cool though. I prefer Grand-AM racing instead.

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0

Originally posted by: iversonyin
cuz Americans cant make a car that handle like a rally car? opppps sorry fanboys....i dont mean it

Ford Focus WRC is a great rally car..
Colin McRae won the WRC championship with it.

No he didn't

 

[randomlinh]

i love watching rally. i couldn't do it to save my life.. but it's a lot more entertaining than a stupid loop

 

[RiDE]

Every car thread in this place gets turned into a pissing contest.

It would help if some of you actually know something about the things you're bashing.

 

[StageLeft]

Americans dumb no like corners like V8 grr

 

[gsellis]

Too remote, no media coverage, and the marshals will not let you run with the bulls like they do were it is popular (damn lawyers).

Speaking from experience. Marshalled 3 in N. Georgia. Filmed a creek crossing that needs to be on AFV, but I have no idea where the tape is or who has it.