Just wondering, they do have night time stages in Monte-Carlo, how come we don't get more night time stages? Imagine if we would have it in Sweden or Corsica or say even Finland? (not to mention Wales), wouldn't that be great?
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Just wondering, they do have night time stages in Monte-Carlo, how come we don't get more night time stages? Imagine if we would have it in Sweden or Corsica or say even Finland? (not to mention Wales), wouldn't that be great?
I think that there are three main reasons
- sponsors are not visible at night
- safety concerns (crowds are very very difficult to control at night)
- disturbing noise for local inhabitants who aren't interested in rallying (little children for example)
I think there are night time stages in Sweden and Wales.
Just checked, last year there was no night stages at Wales rally, but in 2015 they had 2 taking place in the dark.
+ 2x Karlstad, although not quite the same.
Not in Sweden I'd say since there are very few children that might get disturbed in the middle of the forest by night.
I think there used to be night stages in the Swedish rally many years ago (like during the '90s).
I think there aren't any because it would ruin the generic 08-16 time schedule that all rallies have to use. 4 stages before the lunch break and 4 after the lunch break.
And it would also ruin the über overrated super special stages.
Personally I think that there should be at least one dark stage in the Swedish rally. Just add a 5th stage to the Friday and Saturday's
schedule (=2x5 stages) and it would be a stage completely run in dark conditions each evening.