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Thread: Two days is enough?
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7th May 2007, 18:28 #11Originally Posted by bt52bGG: "I'm stinky! I needa good shower and nice bowl of pasta!"
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7th May 2007, 18:55 #12
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sure, fewer days, with the same KMs
More stages, more endurance, less of a sprint mentality, and dare I hope, night stages?US Hillclimb and Rally Photos
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7th May 2007, 20:42 #13
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more Km's is what we need.
if they run 500k of special stages in 3 or 2 days I don't mind but I still think we need longer rallyesFan of Timo Glock and proud of it! :champion: 3 podiums, new start as a Virgin :p
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7th May 2007, 20:55 #14MJWGuest
When you consider the most teams test on the weeken before a rally, or for the M2 teams and PCWRC drivers they test on monday, recce tuesday and wednesday, shakedown thursday, rally friday, saturday and sunday. If we dropped friday and moved SD to friday, teams could save at least one days accomodation. cut the pre event test as well and you could effectively make rally week from wed / thur (recce) fri S/D & ceremonial stuff, long day sat / finish 5 pm sunday. a late leg on saturday for night stages, and you save on accomodation. Sure the travel costs remain, but based on a rally hotel @ €70 per person per night, for a 50 person team that is €3500 per rally, for each night saved. Over 16 rounds that is €56,000. Not much in big teams buget but it will help. Assume a works team testing the whole weekend before, maybe thursday & friday as well and the saving gets ever larger.
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7th May 2007, 21:03 #15
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They might as well skip Sundays as it is, rallies are decided by Saturday night.
Sunday has been pretty pointless for a long time already...If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off!
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7th May 2007, 21:23 #16
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I thought some teams opposed to the proposed 2-day event couple years ago because it will cut the time to showcase themselves to sponsors/VIP's. The smaller team may welcome shorter events as they don't have as many guests, but I don't know about the manufacturer teams. Afterall the manufacturers are the ones who build cars, if they want more PR opportunity and prefer 3 day-event, WRC event should be 3-days.
As from fans' perspective, the competitive km is important and not so much of how many days the event runs.Waiting for Subaru to come back to be :champion:
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7th May 2007, 21:57 #17
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3 days implies 3 days of coverage in media. That is something all the teams (works teams I mean) are mean to seek.
I prefer longer rallies, and specially longer specials (40 and 50 km long ones, with harder tires, strategies to save cars and tires, and more talent implied)Zeque
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7th May 2007, 22:30 #18
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Instead of cutting a day, increase by 1 day. Personally I'd have 12 rounds, all of 4 days, Thursday - Sunday lunchtime, approx 300-350 miles. Seriously, the WRC is in trouble, I'd go back to the future, and although unpopular end the WRCar formula, S2000 is the future.....
....I think? WRC needs much more manufacturers willing to make inexpensive cars..
Is there a better sound than that of Porsche engined Flat-6 ???
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7th May 2007, 23:22 #19
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I wonder what margin would Loeb win if rallyes last for four days ?
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8th May 2007, 09:55 #20
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Originally Posted by A.F.F.
Exactly!
Although, adding more KM's would bring back the original endurance nature of rallyin instead of the sprint events we have now. And it would increase possibilities of catching a bigger lead. With no "mousse" tyres it would be an even bigger chance.
But with TV etc., that is unlikely to happen.
Meeke had a big gap to Rossel after stage 3 (20 sec) at stage 4 had a puncture and now the gap to Rossel is just 2 sec Gryazin strangely slow,anybody now why?...
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