Distance of competitive stages

[FAL]

Seeing the words Langdale Forest, the longest UK stage used (without lapping) was not a million miles from there and was I think 43 miles. You have to do back to 1966 though...

[A.F.F.]

What is the length of the longest Safari stage?

It's gotta be over 210 km.

Jonkka, Tjeerd, Jaanus, care to help ?

[jonkka]

It's gotta be over 210 km.

Jonkka, Tjeerd, Jaanus, care to help ?

Problematic question because Safari never had stages. Up until 1996 it was a route that only had passage controls, no stages at all. In 1996 the term competitive section was introduced and that is closest thing they had for a stage but it was not closed to public traffic (which was Safari's major shortcoming).

Longest competitive section has been 214.80 km long CS14 Seyabei from 1996.

[Langdale Forest]

What is the difference of sections between passage controls and CS?

[jonkka]

What is the difference of sections between passage controls and CS?

Passage control is just a control to verify that all crews complete the entire route, it is in fact quite similar to time control except that time card is not stamped with time (and hence no time penalties apply), only passage is marked. Failure to go through the passage control leads to exclusion.

Competitive section was Safari's equivalent to Special Stage. The different between two were that CS was not closed to public traffic (SS always is) and CS was timed to the second even when SS was already timed to tenth of a second. Before Competitive Sections, entire Safari route formed the timed competition but when CS were introduced, non-CS sections were road sections like in any other rally and only CS were timed.

[Langdale Forest]

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

[Josti]

Corsica used to have some long stages in the eightees. The events were over a 1000 km's of distance (stage mileage) and mostly run over 30 or less stages. After Corsica 1986, I think no stage has been longer than 40 km's other then a few exceptions.

[Langdale Forest]

After Corsica 1986, I think no stage has been longer than 40 km's other then a few exceptions.

Do you mean all non-Safari events or just Corsica?

There was a 48km atage in Greece this year.

[Josti]

Do you mean all non-Safari events or just Corsica?

There was a 48km atage in Greece this year.

This was set for all events. As I said, there are some exceptions. Rally these days have an itinerary around 300 km's, whereas till 10/15 years ago about 500/600 km's. Before Corsica '86 they were even longer.

That 48 km stage on Greece is a big exception. Most of the other stages where pretty short.

[SubaruNorway]

We had a 44km stage in Rally Norway, wasen't there a stage in Japan a few years ago wich was over 50km i think