For five years worldrallynews.com has brought up-to-the-minute news about rallying to a worldwide audience. During that time we have earned a reputation for providing fast, accurate reporting, breaking stories ahead of almost all other media.
In spite of the support of advertisers the costs of running the site have never been recovered. What's more, the professionals who write the stories and provide the results have not even covered their costs, let alone been rewarded for the considerable time they spend researching and writing it.
Worldrallynews.com does not draw on the resources of any other
organisation, being independent of rallying officialdom, and the "paper" media. So we cannot subsidise the site from another business.
We are not able to continue to support worldrallynews.com financially to bring "free" news to you. We have therefore taken the decision that from 28th October worldrallynews.com will be accessible to subscribers only. The alternative course of action for us is to cease operation ofworldrallynews.com and we are loath to do that.
Worldrallynews will cost £23 per year - approximately €33 or $41 -
considerably less than a weekly sports newspaper - costing you £0.06, €0.09 or $0.12 per day. From Tuesday evening you will be able to upgrade your membership through your existing 'Profile', and from Thursday you will automatically be asked to upgrade when you come to the site.
As an existing reader you have access to an even better deal! Subscribe before November 1st and we will give you an extra two months free access to worldrallynews for 14 months - you won't have to subscribe again until January 1st 2006!
In recent weeks we have demonstrated that we are expanding our coverage, providing features about the sport worldwide. We are committed to providing the broadest, most accurate, up-to-the-minute coverage of rallying available anywhere - on the web or on paper. This year alone we have provided almost 800 individual news, features and event reports.
Thanks for your past support as a reader. We look forward to providing an even better service in the future to our subscribers.
Regards
worldrallynews team
