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Thread: [WRC] Safari Rally 2022
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1st February 2022, 09:25 #1
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[WRC] Safari Rally 2022
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/longe...-safari-rally/
a 363 km route is planned with two new stages (two of the most technical stages dropped). Most of the extra kilometres come from the 96 km Sunday.
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1st February 2022, 17:59 #2
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I wish they would have made 3*100km stages, or at least 5*60 to recapture some of the safari spirit. The wRC needs diversity, not only of the background picture ! some short sprints, some endurance events, some classics ... This cloverleaf, all-the-same format is killing the sport. You could be anywhere it is just the same.
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1st February 2022, 18:12 #3
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2nd February 2022, 01:48 #4
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2nd February 2022, 06:49 #5
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IIRC Mouton or Todt even asked for a longer itinerary from them a couple of years ago? However, this is still within the normal WRC format. Any other WRC event could do the same, and has been done during 2015-2018 (earlier years had more freedom with the itineraries).
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2nd February 2022, 14:54 #6
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2nd February 2022, 15:38 #8
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2nd February 2022, 15:51 #9
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I think you'll find the event organisers are not that keen to push the limit of stage mileage.
Where do you think these limits come from?
Every mile costs money to run. Lots of money.
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3rd February 2022, 01:21 #10
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To be fair, you're not not wrong on the former point, but up until 2017, it wasn't unusual to have at least five rallies over 350km per season. '17 & '18 we had three, then things started going really downhill from '19 onwards, largely due to Covid lately, admittedly. 363km in 2016 was not particularly special though.
Last edited by the sniper; 3rd February 2022 at 01:24.
A nice analysis from the rally: https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/what-we-learned-from-rally-italy-sardinia-2024/
[WRC] Rally Italia Sardegna 2024