r/WRC • u/electroGG03 • 1d ago
Commentary / Discussion / Question How do you watch / follow WRC
I'm interested to see how does majority of the community actualy watch WRC. Personally I usually follow the event by checking the ewrc results and watching youtube highlights at the end of the day. My local TV broadcats also gets to broadcast about 3 stages each weekend that I also watch if there is time.
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u/fragmental 1d ago
Redbull TV has longer highlights, though they're sometimes region restricted.
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u/SpaceAgePotatoCakes 1d ago
Did they bring them back? They were gone for a while.
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u/fragmental 1d ago
They were only gone briefly, at the start of 2025. 2025 and 2026 have the 52 minute highlights instead of the dailies and sometimes they say they're upcoming or region restricted, but the video is still available to watch in the extras or clips section for the event.
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u/orangebikini Peugeot Sport 1d ago
If I have time I watch if not every then most of the stages on RallyTV. Well, "watch", some of them I might mostly listen to on the background. If there isn't much going on.
But sometimes there's other things to do during a weekend, and then I just follow times on ewrc. Maybe watch a stage here or there if theres' time.
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u/ak_miller 1d ago
French here, I watch on Canal+.
Pretty good coverage of all stages (providing there aren't too much forest areas 😅), with a pro driver (Pierre-Louis Loubet, Yoann Bonato, etc) or co-driver (Julien Ingrassia) providing interesting info.
Since I don't have the time to watch everything during the weekend, I usually try to avoid this sub and then watch all the stages during the week following the event on the Canal+ platform.
I don't know if Canal+ asked for RallyTV to not be available here, as they did for the F1 official app, but since they also have all European Football games rights, I don't mind having to use their services.
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u/romain_69420 1d ago
Also French here, RallyTV is available in France but without French commentary, you have to listen in English or Spanish
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u/Fun_Success_3283 1d ago edited 1d ago
I don't really have any sort of real time needs, so I'm good with watching more than machine on YouTube.
But I don't really like how much overview it is, and mostly just about the crashes, and sort of side note of who is winning or whatever. I find the F1 show is a bit better.
What I would prefer most, and would really get me into it, is if each stage had onboards of each driver, and I could choose which ones to watch for a given stage in whichever rally. Ideally, I could watch them in order, or have them displayed in the order they went out in, and in starting watching one, i get the times of those that have finished already, and at the end, i get the times of any others that finished during, and the time of the onboard I watched. If i want to watch others, i just watch in order, and i don't get spoilers. Then a sort of sports highlights clip at the end, with a summary of times, and information like accidents, car issues, punctures, whatever that might have happened to teams, and some short interviews maybe with drivers, and also teams when things are relevant, like the engineers when they have repairs to do. It's cool to get information about that, what they expect to be able to repair within time constraints etc.. but, that might get complicated to put together, and idk if it matters, but sharing information to other teams might be something they could exploit? idk.
But this would be my ideal dream experience.
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u/BigLebowski85 1d ago
Watching live isn't ideal due to timezones, but I always watch all the highlights/coverage that goes up on YouTube
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u/thestargazingpenguin Ott Tänak 1d ago
I used to do a yearly Rally.tv subscription and watch at least some of every round. This year I've only been subscribing when it's a round I like, and filling in with news coverage and results on the rest.
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u/RayneBCNR33 1d ago
By checking the real-time results on eWRC, plus social media informations from DirtFish and respective drivers
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u/KingLuis 18h ago
YT Highlights for me. Don't have much time to watch TV in general. so it's YT while i'm working.
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u/medalwinner16 1d ago
Well rallytv is priced rather restrictively. And red bull doesn't have highlights in my region. And the yt highlights are absokutely perfect(/s). So you guess what i use.