Quote Originally Posted by KiwiWRCfan View Post
You will be very pleased to read FIA's explanation that it is indeed for safety reasons

This will take place with immediate effect for safety reasons. ...
https://www.fia.com/news/wrc-decisio...out-powerstage
I hope that this isn't the wording they used in the actual regulation. "In the given order" seems subject to abuse as if one driver does it out of order, he will have an influence on the order of others therefore potentially denying others of PS points. For example, assume that the "given order" was drivers A, B, C, D, E. If driver B goes late and fits in between D & E, then the new order is A, C, D, B, E. Of the 5 drivers here, none of them have the same driver in front and behind them as they did in the original order. Sure the FIA will have worked this out but you never know!