Loeb against endurance rallies

[MJW]

"I'm more of a fan of starting the recce on Wednesday morning and finishing it on Thursday," he said. "Then rally on Friday and Saturday - have the party on Saturday night and then go home on Sunday."

I agree with Seb, I would prefer a endurance type two day rally like San Remo IRC, and what Kris Meeke suggested after Rally GB 2011. Why not have long days with some evening / night stages and restricted servicing? That could satisfy Mouton/Todt's desire for a return to older values. Dragging out an event with needless person/hotel nights doesnt help anyone. A reduced day long hours events would make WRC rallies more affordable for both manufacture teams and privateers.

[A FONDO]

My motto is "the harder - the better", so from my fan's point of view, I firmly prefer two long days than nowaday's 4 with 4-6 repeating stages. As you say its cheaper for privateers but I am sure top drivers and teams (especially the one in the title) will say it is too exhausting and they want longer rest breaks. Anyway I have another idea. Reduce recce to only one pass for stage, considering everybody has camera in the car and watch it multiple times in the hotel room.

[MJW]

[quote="SlowSon"] Another good idea, as you say everyone doing the recce now has an onboard camera. As Loeb suggested a Wednesday recce, with one pass you could have shakedown / qualifying and ceremonial and pr stuff on thursday, with rally friday and sat

[N.O.T]

considering everybody has camera in the car and watch it multiple times in the hotel room.

are you serious ???? ???? ????

[bluuford]

good one:
Sebastian Loeb says... | Facebook

[Brother John]

So this thread is what I mean by PUB Talk discussions.

[janvanvurpa]

How is this thread different than 95% of all the other talk here?

[noel157]

It isn't.
BJ, you've just derailed this thread......

[Sulland]

Once upon a time rallies were endurance, like Monte carlo classic and Safari rally omongst others.

My feeling is that the calendar should have 2 endurance rallies, due to the fact that a world champion should also master that kind of 'Classic' events, that require a different kind of tactics than todays 'sprint' rally format, with 'full gas' from start to finish!

[Martin Luijk]

That guy is allowed to drive as fast as possible on very nice and beautiful roads, and he's still complaining. That's really unfair. I wish I could drive those stages in a WRC car, as much as possible.