tickets arrived today,what cheep cr*p.
paper windscreen pass which will not last 1 night when sleeping in car.
wrc passes are paper ? not bad for £90 just hope it does not rain.:mad:

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Paper passes? Bloody hell that's clever :rolleyes:

Guess we'll have to get the laminator out then. We usually put the car park passes into a clear wallet anyway as they've traditionally been buggers to get off the windscreen.

Think yourself lucky that you've got your passes, still waiting for ours! :rolleyes:

How long ago did you order them? (Not you Bob, I was there when you did it :lol1: ). Bob ordered ours two weeks ago Monday.

Ordered mine about a month ago and they arrived yesterday. And yes, they are cheap rubbish compared to the plastic credit-card like passes we've had in previous years.

Just take some masking tape for the car park pass :lol1:

Did you get a lanyard with them? seems all the money went into paying for that!

How long ago did you order them? (Not you Bob, I was there when you did it :lol1: ). Bob ordered ours two weeks ago Monday.

ordered them last week, they tell you to wet the car pass and stick it to the windscreen how that will work i don't know.

Did you get a lanyard with them? seems all the money went into paying for that!

Yeah, usual lanyard comes with them, this years is red and black :)

[QUOTE=carter x;7397568]tickets arrived today,what cheep cr*p.
paper windscreen pass which will not last 1 night when sleeping in car.
wrc passes are paper ? not bad for £90 just hope it does not rain.:mad:

Hi,
Does the rally planner have good SS maps? I mean in good scale, not that crap which is available on the web site.
Regards,
Adam

I haven't got my tickets yet, only ordered the beginning of last week, but I doubt whether the maps will be any good. They're not usually. Best of buying an OS map and sorting out the stages from there...:thumb:

My feeling is they don't want people knowing where the stages are. They just want everyone to use the same car parks, same viewing points. Which is fair enough, but the hardcore will find another way. Classic last year was 3 fellas with Honda C90's each on knobblies. WRC pass each. I bet they fitted in an extra stage here and there.

We were on Rheola out in the middle of nowhere a few years ago when a helicopter landed behind us, the people got out and watched 20 or so cars then got back in, took off and flew on to the next stage. That's the ultimate way to do it :thumb: When I win the lottery... :D

One of the best bits of kit we saw was in Sweden last year. A family turned up in a van towing a large trailor with a quad in it. They all got out of the van, unhooked the trailer, got the quad out, hooked the trailer up to the quad, everyone bar the quad driver sat in the trailer and off they went to the stage :cool:

[quote=carter x;7397568]tickets arrived today,what cheep cr*p.
paper windscreen pass which will not last 1 night when sleeping in car.
wrc passes are paper ? not bad for £90 just hope it does not rain.:mad:

Hi,
Does the rally planner have good SS maps? I mean in good scale, not that crap which is available on the web site.
Regards,
Adam

Rally planner was that crap after i took the pic. it went in the bin,not worth the paper it was printed on.

Got our tickets today, have to agree they are poor quality. Been to Germany the last 3 years & the tickets + the rally program is top quality, nice plastic tickets with nice lanyard, our lanyards are red string lol. oh well bring on the rally.

Just got our tickets too and surprisingly they're all correct for once! :eek: :D However I am absolutely disgusted with the quality of them. I can't belive they think that a paper ticket will last for four days in the forests of Wales in December. Even if the weather is dry (unlikely) the thing will rip apart from the lanyard in hours and be lost somewhere in the mud. then what happens when you get to the next stage? "Sorry, no pass, no entrance to the stage"?? :mad: :mad: :mad:

I'm off to write a letter :mad:

Agreed.

I am going to remove my program tab from the bottom and laminate mine, or get a plastic sleeve.

Yep that's what we're doing.

Here's my email to the organisers:


"I have just received my three adult World Rally Passes and am so dismayed at the quality of them I felt compelled to write. They are made from a very thin piece of card with a small hole in the top through which to attach to the lanyard. How anyone at Wales Rally GB thought that a £90 pass in the form of a piece of thin card attached to a lanyard would last for four days in the Welsh forests in December is beyond me.



I can't see my pass lasting for more than a few hours even if it's underneath my coat. What will happen when one arrives at a stage only to find that the said pass has disintegrated and fallen off the lanyard? "Oh that's no problem madam, come in anyway"? I think not.



The only way I can see to preserve them so that they last for the four days of the rally is to laminate them. To do this means having to tear off the programme voucher at the bottom which I sincerely hope will still be valid despite being unattached to the pass.



Please ask yourself this question "Is it really on for a customer who has just spent the best part of £300 on tickets to have to weatherproof them before use at their own cost?"



If you need to look at how to do it properly then please go to Rally Deutschland to see what they provide the spectator with for far less money - large plastic passes, robust lanyards and a superbly detailed map of ALL the stages not just the car parks."

Here Here:brickwall

Also sent to Motorsport News! I'm so fed up with having to moan about some aspect of this rally every year :cry:

We also go to Germany every year and never have any reason to moan about the organisation or information provided. Ho hum.

:luxhello::luxhello:

Can't understand the organisers of the event card passes, FFS they will be easy to forge, there total muppets.

I think these are the worst passes we have ever had for this event,i think one year just after the price hike from £5 per car per stage we had some kind of a coupon book were a marshal removed one per stage ? but when you was in you just through the rest in the glove box.
i dread to think of the price hike in 2010 after a year off.
that year the organisers should go to Germany and watch how a wrc round should be staged because i think it is the best organised event of the championship.:)
And the windscreen passes, why do they take 1 minute to put on and 3 months to get off :mad:

There is at least 1 good point about the tickets....................you have a spare boot lace LOL

There is at least 1 good point about the tickets....................you have a spare boot lace LOL

:lol1:

My letter made it into this week's Motorsport News :luxhello:

:thumb: :thumb:

So, what do we reckon, OK to laminate the tickets with the bottom part torn of ready to be exchanged for the program ?

Lets face it, if you don't get a programme, it will be no great loss. Apart from the driver profiles etc. all the information (such as it is) is available from the web site. There won't be any thing of any use in it.

DG

So, what do we reckon, OK to laminate the tickets with the bottom part torn of ready to be exchanged for the program ?

Well I've not heard from the organisers so I'm just going to do it and cross my fingers :brickwall

Could put the ticket in a sealable sandwich bag...........mmmmmmm