Quote Originally Posted by ictus View Post
It all depends on the road book, if a certain corner, and a certain route through this corner is shown on diagrams than its all clear, if not you can get from A to B preaty much freestyle
No, you have to be on the defined road at all times. Only exception I’ve found is the Safari where there may be multiple tracks between points on the road book.
Even the stewards report stated where it occurred between road book tulips.

Quote Originally Posted by ouvreur View Post
But with all respect, it may be discussed or clarified in team manager meetings, but the rule itself is not fit for purpose. It's causing problem after problem on tarmac events - and will only continue to do so. "At least one wheel on the road" isn't a rallying rule, it's a circuit racing rule. How long until a competitor protests another for having just 1cm of the tread of one wheel touching the road - should the full contact patch be touching?

If cars putting all four wheels off the road is such a 'safety' issue, then it should be made impossible for them to do so. In Finland, the organisers use anti-cut devices to keep the average speeds down. What's stopping organisers doing that anywhere else in the world?

We should never, ever be in a situation where a driver taking a marginally more aggressive line on a rally, that is possible to take without smashing up some barriers or obstacles / going through tape etc., gets a time penalty. That's not rallying.
Maybe organisers have better things to do than work out where everyone might break the perfectly good rules and spend the time & money to set up obstructions. There is exactly the same “controversy” when people hit these, or if cars ahead move them out the way, or indeed spectators.

There are all sorts of reasons that make this rule sensible, it might be a condition of using the roads. People are less tolerant of roads being ripped up due to a rally or having to clean up gravel/mud that’s been spread everywhere. People in rallying have to be responsible. Long gone are the days of just being able to do whatever they want.