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4th April 2007, 15:39 #1
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Rally Ireland super special stage a bit far
The event begins on Thursday 15 November with the Super Special Stage in the grounds of the Stormont Parliament Buildings in Belfast. Competition over the four days will also take in a route that covers seven more counties in the north-west of the island: Fermanagh, Tyrone, Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal, Cavan and Roscommon.
Rally Headquarters will be at The Clarion Hotel in Sligo and the Service Park, where all necessary mechanical work on competing vehicles is carried out, will be at Sligo Institute of Technology.
What are the organisers at having the opening stage 100 + miles away from the headquarters (belfast to sligo), all the cars will have to travel back across the country to the service park after that, this is surley going to play against retaining a spot on the calander in future years, its a stupid decision to run the special stage there, yes it will be a spectacular stage, but tthats putting alot of traveling on teams just for one stage.
any comments??ES
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4th April 2007, 15:53 #2
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Its a bit of pandering to the forces of occupation. ;-)
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4th April 2007, 18:02 #3
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Well, at least last year Argentina held theirs in Buenos Aires, much further from rally HQ than this. Also when Acropolis was based in Lamia, the superspecial was sometimes in Athens, some 300km away. In both cases the cars were transported by lorries so no problem there
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4th April 2007, 18:09 #4
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I suspect you'll see much more of this in the future.
I think ISC aim to bring rally to more (and paying) fans by doing remote SSS in major cities. When I first heard of the Buenos Aires SSS, I thought, 'No way will that fly!' but it seems thoroughly well-planned and may be a big hit.
If it is, I'd not be surprised to see SSS in:
Stockholm (310km from Karlstad) or Gothenburg (296km from Karlstad)
Oslo (133km from Hamar)
Athens (well, duh)
Helsinki (274km from Jyväskylä)
Frankfurt (190km from Trier) or maybe Luxembourg?
Auckland
Barcelona
and so on over the next few years. Like it or not, spectators and fans are what make this possible, and I think we will see more promotion of remote SSS in the next few years. And really, Belfast to Sligo isn't such a trek, is it. 200km? Buenos Aires to Cordoba is 700km!
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4th April 2007, 18:33 #5
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Sounds quite childish to drag the cars several 100 km for such pathetic thing as a superspecial, the real rallyfans goes to the stages anyway.
For the money they use for the transport of cars and planetickets for drivers, they could arrange free transport from big towns to the stages instead.Aja kovaa Pena.
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4th April 2007, 18:43 #6
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Originally Posted by Tomi
As for what the real rally fans do... you can't have a sport in this day and age which is only supported by real hardcore fans.
Besides, pacenotes and all-wheel drive?! What's hardcore about that? Proper rallying is done in the nighttime with a map and a poti, preferably driving a Hillman Imp!
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4th April 2007, 19:26 #7
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may-be it will work but its wasting money for teams to do this, if they held a super special somewhere closer in all the countrie that have been listed above i bet they would still sell out
ES
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4th April 2007, 19:29 #8
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Originally Posted by Bjorn240
Pacenotes was already in the sixtees, but blind events are ok too, but thats a different thing.Aja kovaa Pena.
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4th April 2007, 21:46 #9
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Originally Posted by TomiDeep down I'm a sound bloke!
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4th April 2007, 23:18 #10
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So, a 250 mile round trip to see a superspecial around the parliament building. Excellent news. Might make it a bit quieter for doing a last minute recce of the proper stages
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