World Rally Championship TV in the US again!!, New deal with Discovery HD announced Options

[cobas]

Rejoice rally fans! Years after Speed Channel dropped their WRC coverage (and my cable provider dropped SPEED too!) this Fall WRC will be available again, now on the Discovery HD network/channels/thing. As I understand it, "HD Theater" is the name for Discovery's set of HD channels including the Military Channel, Science Channel, Animal Planet, etc, which are the basic HD channels here.

"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."

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/16/discove...ge-back-to-u-s/

Now if only I knew what the heck is going on in WRC anymore.... Apparently Loeb won the first five rounds in a row, as usual, but hasn't scored much in the last few rallies. Hirvonen is now in the points lead by finishing second or third almost every time and there's only four rounds left, the last in October. Also the only manufacturers officially left are Ford and Citroen, although they sponsor five teams and a total of 16 drivers, but only 7 of them are competing for the whole championship, and there's a bunch of private teams with older WRC Subarus, Fords, Mitsubishis and Skodas. Gronholm retired and Solberg started his own team and is now driving a Citroen Xsara! wtf?

Next year's championship is the last with 2.0L Turbo engines. The 2011 rules limit displacement to 1.6L.

[Silentwolf]

Next year's championship is the last with 2.0L Turbo engines. The 2011 rules limit displacement to 1.6L.

Perhaps this is another reason why Mitsu and Subie decided to get out of it.

[cobas]

Sunday, sunday, SUNDAY!

[IRUN619]

Speed channel doesn't do squat for import car coverage. Here's to the SPEED channel

Good to see some imports duke it out in the WRC. THANK YOU DISCOVERY.