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10th March 2017, 16:19 #11
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This point is questionable but it might bring issues for the organization, On the other hand here in Czech republic despite having quite high population density and some villages/towns on every stage we still have a lot of night stages. Basically nearly every national championship event has one night section (usually Friday night) but when it was tried on Barum it was quite a disaster. There used to be so many spectators that it was found quite impossible to safely run natural stages at night. They still have the city stage running up until midnight though That one is so extremely guarded by the organization but still there are issues and temporary stops due to safety incidents when drunk spectators get injured by falling from some building etc.
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10th March 2017, 16:45 #12
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11th March 2017, 00:39 #13
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Pay the man! However, the official reason (excuse) given used to be, safety. Principally, stage evacuation times. In principle, every SS has to have an emergency helicopter landing zone adjacent to it. At night time, lack of visibility would make most of these unusable.
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11th March 2017, 09:23 #14
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Remember the 2nd run of Torsby this year? Maybe you were at the public area near the finish, but for me it was quite dark. Monte still has night stages. In Wales 2 years ago they did quite well with running 2 stages (Dyfnant and Aberhirnant) in the dark. Night stages are great, but as Mirek pointed they're difficult in terms of safety. In some events, like Portugal, Sardinia, Australia, Catalunya (when gravel) it's not a great idea because of the dust. Everyone must remember Australia 2 years ago... On tarmac and gravel like Finland it's no problem. For Finland however you need to have an extremely long day to drive in the dark... It seems like they prefer to start early in the morning instead. I remember in 2012 they did Mynnila around 9 O'Clock in the evening, it only started getting dark around the very last cars.
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11th March 2017, 12:00 #15
tommeke, no I wasn't at RS this year.
...Funny how ev'rything was roses when we held on to the guns...
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11th March 2017, 12:10 #16
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11th March 2017, 12:22 #17
Catalunya run a few stages pretty early on the morning don't they, not essentially ''night'' but they are pretty dark
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11th March 2017, 14:37 #18
Turbine blade.
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