Rally night stages?
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How many stages have been cancelled in recent years due to the shorter format? With short stages, and a limited area over which the stages are spread, there have been times where the fans have simple swamped the stages and the access roads forcing the cancellation of the stage.
With the growing popularity of the sport, surely longer and more spread out stages are the way forward. They "fixed" something that wasn't broken!
I think half the fun of rallying was the service crews trying to make it from one service stop to the next. Another rally altogether...
With the growing popularity of the sport, surely longer and more spread out stages are the way forward. They "fixed" something that wasn't broken!
I think half the fun of rallying was the service crews trying to make it from one service stop to the next. Another rally altogether...
pablo said:
it works for the spectator if you are following the rally in that you can see each stage twice, ok not particularly great but
But iirc in the 'old' days the RAC used to attract about 2 million spectators over 5 days ...
... almost as popular as fishing!
And as someone I was talking to at the Lombard Rally 2005 today happened to point out - you didn't have to pay silly prices to watch. In fact the ability to charge the punters is probably the biggest reason for the compact format and superspecials.
The Lombard looked like fun with the sort of friendly rivalry that characterised things a generation or so since. Some pictures from today at Wollaton Park in Nottingham on another thread - daylight and night. Now they face a day and some night heading South through Wales and then Sunday a day heading North through Wales. Must be torture for them.
I think half the spectators I spoke to in Nottingham are doing the same route. Unless the beer runs out.
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