Loeb special event and free car, not yet, maybe never

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They are both unique in different ways but back on top it would be cool to see more new cars being gifted out to celebrate sports
 
VTiRoj
Maybe that's the reason why? If Loeb gets into a situation where he almost can't lose, maybe then Kaz will announce something like: "If Loeb becomes WRC world champion, everyone gets a free DS3 road car and rally car and a special event to use them in!"

If not the DS3, a Stealth or Chromeline C4 would be cool, too.
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he is WRC champion for 8th time in a row. PD please make a DS3 available :)
 
Man, I was going to comment on your post that he hasn't won those 8 in a row. Then I wiki'd him and it seems I was wrong.. holy crap, he's dominated the series since 2004. I somehow figured there had been other champions between his victories.
 
Since Loeb is actually modeled in the game (voice included), they should do something. Perhaps a Rally Seasonal, Time Trial and some DLC.
I would be semi-surprised if they do not do something, even small, to "celebrate".
 
Snaeper
Same could be said for Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart ...
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They do not have a GT5 special event named after them ...

The irony is that Loeb, Edwards and Stewart all have their actual cars included in the game, whereas Vettel only had the X1/2010.
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No that is just the point, we want the Loeb DS3, his C4 is fantastic, but he drives the DS3 now.

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In total it seems that PD will use their partners success to get advertising. Not clear how fast they can transform it though. They certainly missed to make this news an extra event, but ....
 
Loeb must've thought he was playing GT5 Online when the Spanish man came down the road the wrong way and turned into him!
 
Rods
I'd say NASCAR is bigger than WRC overall.

If you consider reach, of course WRC beats NASCAR, but if you account for the audience each get, I dunno if that's still the case.

Now when you calculate the net worth of each brand and their annual income, I'd be willing to bet NASCAR is a bigger brand than WRC.
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NASCAR maybe a bigger brand than WRC, but tell me this.... Which is more entertaining? NASCAR for its same mundane groupe of cars driving on an oval, or WRC, where drivers push themselves and their cars to the absolute limit, powersliding blind into corners with tree's, rock's, mud, spectators etc etc etc just waiting around the bend?

I was at the WRC in Ireland in 2007, I was cold, and wet for many hours BUT it was the greatest fun I have ever had in my life!!
 
GOTMAXPOWER
Loeb must've thought he was playing GT5 Online when the Spanish man came down the road the wrong way and turned into him!
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Damn it! You got in there first with a comment regarding that crash :lol:
It happened between stages and the Spanish guy was almost in tears apparently.

Maybe PD should do a seasonal where you play as Loeb dodging narrow country lane traffic coming at you head on :lol:
 
Eight times! In a row! He must be awesome.... or everyone else sucks. I guess they are holding off until it is 10 in a row. A nice round number that.
 
What a story:

"I moved to the side [of the road] but we are in [Wales] and he is not [Welsh] so he went on the wrong side and we crashed," Loeb told the event website.
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Menown
Eight times! In a row! He must be awesome.... or everyone else sucks. I guess they are holding off until it is 10 in a row. A nice round number that.
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He is just awesome. When you see him drive, he is visibly faster than everyone else. He makes it look easy.

Err, sorry peeps...
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MrMulsanne
Combine with Fiesta WRC, add the Mini Countryman... PD has WRC license remember as well.
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'08 license.

Menown
Eight times! In a row! He must be awesome.... or everyone else sucks. I guess they are holding off until it is 10 in a row. A nice round number that.
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That would explain why they gave a F2007. They were waiting for Schumi's 10th championship. 💡
 
Nurburgthing.
He is just awesome. When you see him drive, he is visibly faster than everyone else. He makes it look easy.
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He is awesome but the car helps, once Ogier stops throwing it of the road he'll be a rival as would Latvala if he was in a Citroen. The truth is that M-Sport and Prodrive don't have as much money as Citroen to pour into their rally programme, once Volkswagen come in 2013 I reckon Citroen will have a real rival.
 
Nurburgthing.
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Your avatar certainly warrants second look... and opens several ideas for reasoning. :nervous:

Anyway, what ever happened to the the Mitsubishi CZ 3 Tarmac Rally Concept car? I had endless hours of fun with it on the dirt tracks. I think it was the sound and gearing that I loved...



A Sebastian Loeb car should be created by GT and Citroen in celebration of his achievements. I mean Loeb has been affiliated with GT way before they acquired the WRC license even. They probably have something up their sleeve.
 
cally-dave
NASCAR maybe a bigger brand than WRC, but tell me this.... Which is more entertaining? NASCAR for its same mundane groupe of cars driving on an oval, or WRC, where drivers push themselves and their cars to the absolute limit, powersliding blind into corners with tree's, rock's, mud, spectators etc etc etc just waiting around the bend?

I was at the WRC in Ireland in 2007, I was cold, and wet for many hours BUT it was the greatest fun I have ever had in my life!!
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Rods
And I agree, I don't like NASCAR as much as WRC, for an example. The opinion I stated was in regard to how big they are, not how good they are.

WRC is so much cooler, has so much more diversity than any form of motor sport, it's even hard to compare...
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Surely this can't be difficult to implement. A rally seasonal would be great!
 
Or the long-awaited Pikes Peak hill climb...
 
JasonK92
But isn't NASCAR only in America? So only Americans like that sport, where as F1 and WRC is across the globe and loved by millions?
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And F1/WRC are not really all that loved in America, yet we still got a car celebrating Vettel's accomplishment. The point I'm making is that the cars are already in the game and it's not that hard to just say "Hey! Carl Edwards won the NASCAR championship! Here's his car!" Who cares if you like NASCAR, you bought the game, there are NASCAR's in the game, Carl Edwards wins and you get a free one! If Loeb wins the WRC then everyone (even the people who don't care/don't follow WRC) get pleasantly surprised when his C4 shows up in their garage.

JasonK92
I'm not looking for an argument but I just think if you was to ask 100 people if they would rather see WRC or NASCAR, I think the majority would say WRC as it travels all around the world giving the opportunity to everyone to see it,
where as NASCAR is restricted to just America, but I understand you host those events in massive arenas that get packed out with hundreds of thousands of people

I don't mean this disrespectfully but WRC has a variety of different cars and classes, where as everyone in NASCAR has pretty much the same car with a different badge on the front
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While I'm sure a lot of people would say WRC (myself included). You seem to make it sound like it's difficult to do both. Why can't we do both? Why not even include Super GT while we're at it? It's just giving away a free car that's already in the game.


Vince_Fiero
They do not have a GT5 special event named after them ...
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No, though there is the Jeff Gordon NASCAR special event, though sadly Gordon isn't one of the two contending for the championship now. I don't see how not having a special event suddenly denies you from having your car that's already in the game given away for free...



No that is just the point, we want the Loeb DS3, his C4 is fantastic, but he drives the DS3 now.
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I agree, the new WRC cars would be nice, but that's not going to happen. Hence the X2010 being given away instead of the X2011... or an actual Red Bull Formula car (but we all know, or at least all should know, why that wont happen.)


cally-dave
NASCAR may* be* a bigger brand than WRC, but tell me this.... Which is more entertaining?
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Well, as someone who respects the level of difficulty that it takes to master the art of rally driving and as a car guy who likes small turbo-charged hatchbacks, I'll say that WRC is certainly aesthetically interesting.

In terms of actual competition, NASCAR racing door to door for 300+ laps in complete view of the spectators for 36 weeks out of the year sinks the WRC ship.

NASCAR for its same mundane (removed for opinion) group of cars driving on an oval, or WRC, where drivers push themselves and their cars to the absolute limit, powersliding blind into corners with tree's, rock's, mud, spectators etc etc etc just waiting around the bend?
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Well when you put it like that WRC sounds amazing! Now allow me to re-write that with a NASCAR-bias so you can read what I just read.

WRC for it's souped up econo-hatches and brightly colored liveries whining down a back road where no one can see them, or NASCAR, where drivers compete based on skill alone since their cars are identical, at speeds that can range from 130mph average on a slow track to almost 200mph on faster tracks for three straight hours?

See what I did there?

I was at the WRC in Ireland in 2007, I was cold, and wet for many hours BUT it was the greatest fun I have ever had in my life!!
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So I understand where the bias and opinion are coming from. In order for me to respect this, I would really want to hear a counter point along the lines of " And I went to a NASCAR race at Kentucky the other year and couldn't even get into the track because the parking was so mal-organized!"

Forgive me if I sounded harsh, I want you to understand that I love WRC and NASCAR equally and bare no ill-will towards any of you. I just think we're beating to death something that boils down to simply "Give away X driver's X car for free because he won X championship, since the car is already in the game." It shouldn't matter what series or what racing format they participate in... what matters is PD embracing their licenses and celebrating a driver's victory by educating everyone on who he is using the car he drives.

I apologize for starting a small NASCAR vs. WRC war and I wish to end it with common sense.
 
Snaeper
And F1/WRC are not really all that loved in America, yet we still got a car celebrating Vettel's accomplishment. The point I'm making is that the cars are already in the game and it's not that hard to just say "Hey! Carl Edwards won the NASCAR championship! Here's his car!" Who cares if you like NASCAR, you bought the game, there are NASCAR's in the game, Carl Edwards wins and you get a free one! If Loeb wins the WRC then everyone (even the people who don't care/don't follow WRC) get pleasantly surprised when his C4 shows up in their garage.
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my point is, F1 visits 18 countries each year, next year will be 19 as the Texas GP, WRC visits 14 each year (correct me someone), Where as NASCAR stays in USA, so i feel that F1/WRC will have a bigger fanbase across the globe, so the majority of GT players will benefit from recieving gifts such as the red bull x1
 
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Screw the hyundai! We need this!
 
JasonK92
my point is, F1 visits 18 countries each year, next year will be 19 as the Texas GP, WRC visits 14 each year (correct me someone), Where as NASCAR stays in USA, so i feel that F1/WRC will have a bigger fanbase across the globe, so the majority of GT players will benefit from recieving gifts such as the red bull x1
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The difference is that the Vettel car was something hard to achieve, the Loeb one is easy, as well as being so cheap to buy with cash from the dealership, as well as the C4 being so many years old now, the Edwards championship winning NASCAR (Come on Stewart won't win) would be a nice prize since its from this year, especially if it was in one of the alternate liveries. But I doubt we'll get anything other than the Vettel car because F1 is on another tier compared to everything else (like it or not its true).
 
GOTMAXPOWER
But I doubt we'll get anything other than the Vettel car because F1 is on another tier compared to everything else (like it or not its true).
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see i was going to say something like this but i thought it would cause arguements, but a free gift none the less would be good to keep things spiced up
 
Why always oppose the WRC to Nascar? As much as I love rally (more of a Group B nostalgic though), I gradually came to really enjoy watching Nascar racing as I understood it's way more technical, physical and tactical than some misinformed or just biased people think (I used to be one of them). Plus, even Fuji Speedway is great fun in GT5 when driving a Nascar car, and that's priceless!
 
JasonK92
my point is, F1 visits 18 countries each year, next year will be 19 as the Texas GP, WRC visits 14 each year (correct me someone), Where as NASCAR stays in USA, so i feel that F1/WRC will have a bigger fanbase across the globe, so the majority of GT players will benefit from recieving gifts such as the red bull x1
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Fanbase has nothing to do with. Who it benefits has nothing to do with it. Stop bringing it up, that's not the point.

The point is, NASCAR is in the game, WRC is in the game and if one of the specific cars wins the championship that year, that car should be given out for free to everyone as applause for the feat, regardless of where the fan base is or how big. It's not hard to do! If DTM was in the game with modern cars I'd be the saying the same for that! If the Brazilian Stock Car series was in the game, I'd be saying the same for that! If the BTCC was in the game I'd say the same for that, too! Do you understand what I mean?
 
Snaeper
Fanbase has nothing to do with. Who it benefits has nothing to do with it. Stop bringing it up, that's not the point.

The point is, NASCAR is in the game, WRC is in the game and if one of the specific cars wins the championship that year, that car should be given out for free to everyone as applause for the feat, regardless of where the fan base is or how big. It's not hard to do! If DTM was in the game with modern cars I'd be the saying the same for that! If the Brazilian Stock Car series was in the game, I'd be saying the same for that! If the BTCC was in the game I'd say the same for that, too! Do you understand what I mean?
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I just feel that more players would appreciate F1/WRC gifts as its more common and well known and enjoyable.

I know this is going to cause some arguments now but it's just my opinion
 
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