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    They really want to kill the rallysport?

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    Yes, they want

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    Tommi must have spent too much time over Christmas in Mahonen sauna, drinking his Kool-Aid...

    In a way, you've got to admire that even in successful times for the WRC, prominent figures in this sport are still dreaming up ways in which it can be undermined.

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    https://yle.fi/urheilu/3-9996617

    Kalle Rovanperä probably doing Rally Deutschland, as he may be allowed to drive there. In that case they would skip Tour de Corse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
    https://www.is.fi/ralli/art-2000005502849.html

    Let's go crazy once again.

    Tommi Mäkinen says he wants rallies to have 250 kms max so a WRC car could do 2 events between full services. Would also help with remote events, the car shipped to another continent could do two events without a full service at headquarters. Also, he wants more action for rallying days, he does not like having 5 hours between a loop of 2-3 stages. He wants to cure that by cutting the length of the rallies from 3 to 2 days.
    making it shorter in time seems like a sensible thing. monte is 4 days, with less kilometers per day than on most small local rally's. they could do that on 2 days.

    but i don't understand what mäkinen is trying to accomplish with shorter rally's. the works teams will still rebuild the car after each rally, and the privateers will still only rebuild it as much as their budget allows them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PLuto View Post
    They really want to kill the rallysport?
    Is the standard ERC Format killing the rallysport? No, but those ideas are not much different.

    Shakedown and 2 full days of 250 km stages without sometimes 5-6 hours between re runs of stages sounds not too bad. Sunday is mostly boring and useless. If this would enable to add some more rounds, why not.
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    If they cut the sunday leg, the last loop of saturday will be boring... So then they can shorten it again to 1,5 days... David Richards once said in an interview: "The cost of competing at the top is determined by the teams that invests the biggest amount of money in it, not by the sport itself." I think that's something people from FIA should think about.

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    Rally Finland was only two days some years ago. also MC rallye with four days is too much for regular viewer (not for me/us who enjoy this sport more then average follower)

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    He has a point; I don't like days with long breaks and small number of competitive kilometres. In the age of the internet the action can be more focused because it's easier to follow so I wouldn't mind more concentrated rallies - long days with more time spent racing and on proper stages. Also they could keep the endurance aspect by providing only minimal service during a day for example (only tyre change or no more full service at mid day). In the end the sport has to evolve in order to grow and stay relevant, going back to the "old days" when "everything was better" won't solve anything, but what is important is they find a good format that takes the core traits of rally and brings them up to date.

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