Elfyn Evans Opens Up on the WRC's Future, Points System and more
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- DirtFish went to Wales to sit down and chat with the man leading Toyota's charge this season. Step forward Elfyn Evans.
It’s one of the most entertaining and revealing interviews ever with the Welshman. We talk about how he went from being too slow in a Nissan Micra (his words) to fronting the Toyota team. We ask him about his favourite sandwich and the WRC’s new points structure. He reveals his favourite Tom Jones song and his innermost thoughts on what he watches on television. Want to see more? Let us know!
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Elfyn is such a nice guy so humble and so talented, that was a wonderful interview 🤩🤩
Would love to see the WRC in a America ❤🇯🇲🇯🇲
DirtFish better Rally contents than the official WRC channel.
Always will be.
Elfyn Evans is a true star, and we all wish him the very best for the coming season.🏆
Thank you for taking the time to speak to your fans! Godspeed to you in the races this season sir! Have fun! I really enjoyed hearing that you'd like to have WRC in the USA!!! I can't wait to see this. THANK YOU DIRTFISH for all that you do for our favorite sport.
As a Welshman I truly hope the WRC will be back in Wales 🙏
Welsh government are to blame
Useless
I love watching Elfyn. So much discipline and control in his attack. Very technical.
Beautiful place proud to be Welsh 🏴
Great interview 👌 and Gwyndaf drove me to school in his Bus 🤘 good old says
Jealous!
him or thierry deserve a championship this year. Rooting for them both.
Great to see driver interviews like this!
Rally one should be a modified road cars, it defiantly better for everyone!
Good luck to Elfyn this year
That was fantastic! Thank you Dirtfish! How cool what it be for a series of these with other drivers especially Ogier, Mikko, JML 🙏🏼
Marcus even loeb and petter
A credit to the sport All the best for the season ahead
Brilliant interview no crap just down to earth brilliant have a great year ⭐️👍
Interesting to hear Elfyn about the Seb road order situation, you can tell it has definitely frustrated him but he still finds a way to paint it in a positive light. Elfyn is a gem
On the surface, there is no fundamental difference between the WRC of today and the WRC of the past. So, some _really_ big problems had to have arisen for the WRC - a series that was seeing Group B crowds both long before and long after the days of Group B itself - to be so down in the dumps. The problem with this working group, as ever in modern professional motorsport, is that they don't seem to want to engage with the real solutions to rallying's current problems.
It's not "Sunday driving" that's making the WRC increasingly easy to miss: you can barely tell the difference between the fastest and the slowest Rally1 cars as is because they're all FLYING. And manipulating the points system to make title fights more of a toss-up is just a cheap trick NASCAR would be proud of (not a compliment).
From an outsider more acquainted with circuit racing, one suggestion: allow more variation in how long the rallies and their stages are and bring back the night stages. No two rallies should seem alike, and they should all, at their core, be endurance tests. They don't all need to be complete marathons, but there should be some, and frankly the Safari Rally won't be deserving of the name unless it's 1000km long, like it used to be. Size directly correlates to spectacle, and a rally that goes from one border to the other and covers absurd distances over punishing terrain is an inherently spectacular event. A rally should be a journey, not 300km of dashing in and out of the service park.
There isn't an Audi v. Lancia movie happening because Group B was a singularly special class. No, Group B - like Group 4 before it and Group A afterward - simply had the good fortune of existing in the time period before rallying started to abandon what made it unique. Shorter, more homogenous, less like rallying and more like regular old circuit racing with extra steps. It still stands out, but there's a reason the past gets so much more respect than the present.
The WRC loses something intangible but irreplaceable the more it tries to be like everything else: a sense of adventure. Cars aside, that's the key.
I come from a circuit racing following too and when I was looking up this year's WRC calendar, I noticed all the rallies are pretty much a Grand Prix distance. It seemed odd to me they were all almost the same in length. It also occurred to me then that what F1 completes in an hour and a half, WRC takes 3-4 days to complete. Yes, terrain is tougher, slower speeds, they travel more than 300km in total to connect between stages, but even with all that it made WRC look a lot less impressive than it really should be.
Hope to see him lift the championship trophy this year! Also hope to get to see him and the whole WRC in the US one day! Bummed Tennessee did not make on the calendar this year.
Superb interview, the usual quality. I can't decide which of Thierry and Elfyn will deserve the trophy more, but we hope that if the field is so limited, we will at least see an open championship until the last race. Monte is only 5 days away, I'm in a hurry to pack... Finally 😊
Come on Elfyn this is your year, A great interview such a humble guy
More of this , please.. do every driver this year :)
Elfyn, I wish you all the best for 2024! 👍💪✌
More of this sorta stuff please 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😎
Next tme Elfyn: Favorite music, national anthem... ;)
More of this with past and present drivers!!
Excellent interview, Elfyn is right on the new points system, it's rubbish. I was never keen on the powerstage points in the first place. However the obvious solution is that the 5 power stage points are awarded for fastest over ALL of Sunday and leave the rally win at 25.
But as Eflyn and other posters say, that is not the biggest problem, only 8 top line cars is.
How come Fiat runs 2 F1 and a WEC team, but has no presence in the WRC. Similar story with Renault and Pug. Biggest mistake with these cars was the FIA supplied Hybrid.
Second big problem, to many similar events, Poland, Latvia and Finland back to back is stupid. Why no Aus or NZ, it's false to call it the World Rally Championship.
Dirtfish can dream away about a US round, it'll never happen as these cars are not sold in the US. Same as so few follow Nascar in Europe, they are irrelevant (t)here.
Maybe the FIA president should ask the people that matter, us fans what we want, because in the case of the WRC and F1 it is clearly rubbish. Thank god for the WEC and Ferrari's win last June.
Such a fun interview! More of this, please! 😁
i love this guy .. so cool 😎
Great interview and Elfyns a great speaker.
Great interview Thank you
I hope Elfyn becomes champion great interview, not sure about the hat!
Elfyn vs Thierry, that's what will look like to happen. I hope with this new point system even, Elfyn will still be able to fight for that championship until the end
37:00 WRC 2 Cars and below need to be more like the 90s Group A and Kit Cars that’s what will get people more excited
absolutely!
Yup!
@dirtfish Noticeable his car of choice was an F2...
Crowd-pleasing idea, but falls apart when one looks at the situation in detail. The hatchback segment doesn't have many cars left in it to begin with, and all of them have turbocharged inline-4 engines (or the odd inline-3).
There is no such thing as a revvy, 9000 rpm sport compact anymore - even Honda's moved to turbos since the FK2 Type R - so a modern class of F2 kit cars is a no-go. And given the large, relatively diverse fields of genuinely fast cars in R5/Rally2 fields these days, I'm not really sure what it could learn from the early 90's WRC that would be of any use.
This isn't to say that bringing naturally aspirated machinery back to rallying is impossible. It's just going to have to come from a different class: R-GT, which everyone forgot about because the droney turbo-4 Alpine A110 is the only car present.
@@mitchell-wallisforce7859 i agree😥do like those alpines nowadays
Group A was brilliant when you could buy car then built it as rally car,thats cool. And cool dangerous stylish and properly exiting rallies.
What a nice looking living room btw
Evans🙌🔥👏💣
What an amazing interview! A guy that talks so little, but clearly has a lot to say when asked in a right way and when he's feeling comfy. Well done.
Also, completely agree with Elfyn's views on the new points system as well as the idea that Rally2 should become the new Rally1. The new points system is the daftest thing in the world and will cause more damage to WRC than all other rule changes in the last 30 years combined. And I personally find rally2 cars boring and certainly will never watch them live. What a way to kill a sport, complete morons running rallying these days.
Anyway, thanks for a fantastic interview. Would be amazing to see something like this with other drivers too...
Glendun, Orra Lodge, Torr Head any of these CoI/Ulster stages have to be among anyone's top stages anywhere.
I would love to hear from ott 😆
Were the drivers, whose motivation to win points creates the spectacle, consulted by the FIA about the crazy change to the points system?
Elfyn Evans good luck 😊
What do you do about your tight back Elfyn?
Best of luck from an Englishman in Wales!
it's a shame for the WRC management that the last 2 champions are withdrawing from the competition. Change something finally, but for the better! to come more car manufacturers.
Was he on about Orra Mountain? @43:30
Does Elfyn still live at his nan’s house or are those his choice of sofa? 😂
🤣 The interview was filmed at a nearby hotel!
😂😂😂🤣🤣
Pob lwc eleni Elfyn!
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its a stretch but WRC needs Subaru and the USA.
FIA are clueless regarding the points change. Pob lwc yn Monte Elfyn, diolch am y fideo DF.
finally someone said it. rally 2 cars are boring. Fast, but no sound, only good in straight line.
WRC killing itself by remaining almost entirely in Europe...
There were 10 rallies in Europe in 1997....
There are 10 rallies in Europe in 2024....
With 2.5 manufacturers, the sport can't afford to be going all over the world. The WEC is in far better shape, but only has 8-9 rounds.....
Nyt kaikki tsemppaamaan Evans maailmanmestariksi 2024
The future of rallying is definitely a tough question since manufacturers are continuing to move towards massive pig SUVs as their main product lines. It's absurd that these SUVs are always marketed as "outdoorsy" and "rugged" but are totally unsuitable for the basis of the most outdoorsy and rugged motorsport. I hope legislation will swing against SUVs and we'll see a revival of real cars. That aside I think the biggest issue is that the promoter needs to make better highlights available to the public on RUclips. I always get people asking me where to find highlights and they are never satisfied with what's available. People want to see longer highlights that are easy to find on their feeds.
Leave anything to the Welsh government and it's not going to happen!! Just look at Velindre
We dont need new point system...fia is crap ......
Imma be real with you guys, there's not too much of a future unless they radically change how stages are done or they entice manufacturers by making the cars silhouette SUVs or something
Change how the stages are done? What do you mean?
The Puma is an SUV(which is the big advantage of the space-frames that everyone forgets btw, manufacturers can scale down SUVs into competitive rally cars) and I m also not sure if a format change really helps, because in the end a f1 race is less than 3 hours, you cant shorten a rally to something a fan can watch on a sunday afternoon anyway. An after-movie for each event, followed by the live power stage might help more.
Using silhouette SUVs will kill the sport. They’re too big, rally cars are small to medium sized nimble cars. Rallying will lose all its fans if that happens, but sadly I can see that happening.
Shortening these rallies is the worst idea. They’re a plenty of young people who don’t have 5 second attention spans. They honestly need to be longer.
Rallying is not a stick and ball sport, it’s supposed to be long and methodical.
Classic rallies back like Corsica,San Remo,GB,longer rally Finland. Longer rallies is neede,rally is riding still with 60s-90s glamour but this series is not cool in any way. I love rally but now it really sucks,greedy idiotic fia, these new moronic rules, we need COOL series back. That moron head of fia should be kicked out and liberate motorsports from this bullshit.
Kind of ironic how Elfyn's old man is selling Fords despite his son driving for Toyota lel
Well, he used to drive for M Sport.
If Elfyns old man hadn't of been rallying Fords back in the day and then selling Fords Elfyn probably wouldn't have got into rallying, kind of ironic innit
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Maybe the drivers only doing a part season should only get part points if they win a round and those drivers doing a full season get full points, seems fair to me and will stop a part season driver potentially winning the championship
doesnt seem very fair to me.
Thanks please do more videos like this, the long ones