Distance of competitive stages

[jonkka]

What was the longest Special Stage that was not part of the Safari Rally?

I am not 100% certain if it's all-time longest but for example 1976 Morocco had a monster stage, SS8 Transmarocaine was 776 kilometers long.

[Langdale Forest]

How many miles would that be?

http://www.rallybase.nl/index.php?ty...lt&rallyid=353

1661km over 9 stages, that 'monster' stage would be almost half the distance! hock:

[kyosti]

Some Corsica stages;
Saint-Sauveur, 85,8 K's
Abbazia, 99 K's
Saint-Antoine, 97,6 K's
Ponte-Nuovo, 88,2 K's
ALL during the 1978 edition.

[dimviii]

in paraguay there is a rally with the name TRANS CHACO
Markku Allen was invited to run with a deltona lancia by the president Raul Cubas
one of the stage was 68 km long
Allen when finished this stage had a time of 21m 26secs
he felt that it was agood time ,average was191km/h
then he discovered that he had beaten by a teenage driver Alex Galanti who took less than 19 minuteswhich represented 216 km/h

from WORLD RALLYING No 27 Martin Holmes

[Langdale Forest]

216km/h average speed, now that IS fast!!!!!!!

[jso1985]

Rally Trans Chaco maybe going flat out on huge straights isn't proper rallying but hey it's still pretty much fun

[cosmicpanda]

It seems that in NZRC, they normally have quite long stages, and long stage mileage - around 200+km if I recall correctly. Long stages too - I think at a recent rally(not the WRC rally), one was more than 40kms long.

One thing is also that if there was 20 separate 20+km long stages, could they also need three days for recce then?

You're correct about the NZRC, at the recent Rally of Whangarei which is what I think you refer to the Bull/Cassidy stage was over 40 km (I think - this is going by memory). I think this rally basically used exactly the same roads as the 2005 rally of NZ but without the Raglan stages.