[WRC] Rally Italia Sardegna 2024

[Andre Oliveira]

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[Eli]

A less than 40kms on Sunday & less than 100 on Friday feels like a joke tbh... and to add insult to injury it seems to be the way going forward from 2025...

[HKSjbg]

You posted this on the wrong date, it isn't April 1st today...

[TypeR]

Ah..
Total distance 266km and 150km of it you have to drive without service..

And once again, another impressive change that brings extra manus to the series.. right.

[PLuto]

I was thinking to go to Sardegna as spectator this year. But with so short and stupid schedule, it is not worth for me to spend money for this comedy. This documents helped me with my choice...

[Eli]

I was thinking to go to Sardegna as spectator this year. But with so short and stupid schedule, it is not worth for me to spend money for this comedy. This documents helped me with my choice...

I wish it was a comedy, more like a tragedy on our side, & it's only the beginning, don't wanna know what's waiting for us around the corner in 2025.

[TypeR]

......it's only the beginning, don't wanna know what's waiting for us around the corner in 2025.
I suggest that from 2025 wrc should cut off all the mechanics + services and go to ,,malle moto'' style of racing like dakar has for motorbikes - all the service and repairing has to be done by riders/drivers..

[Tauri_J]

I suggest that from 2025 wrc should cut off all the mechanics + services and go to ,,malle moto'' style of racing like dakar has for motorbikes - all the service and repairing has to be done by riders/drivers..

Tänak would be the champ lol

But shameful itineary for spectators

[PLuto]

But shameful itineary for spectators

I think it is shameful itinerary for everybody... Maybe only promoter will like it as they can save one day of transmission...

[Franky]

I was thinking to go to Sardegna as spectator this year. But with so short and stupid schedule, it is not worth for me to spend money for this comedy. This documents helped me with my choice...
Exactly the same feeling. Short events just aren't worth the cost.

[MartijnS]

But shameful itineary for spectators

Not much wrong with easily 2/4/2 stages without any rushing I would say?

[Myrvold]

Not much wrong with easily 2/4/2 stages without any rushing I would say?

Will be mass migration from SS5/7 to SS10/12 then?

[ictus]

Exactly the same feeling. Short events just aren't worth the cost.

If they shorten the stages (not the number of stages) than that's tha differance if you are spectating on a 1km vs a 50km stage? You only see a car for a few hundred meters max...

[MartijnS]

Will be mass migration from SS5/7 to SS10/12 then?

Should be enough time i'd say.

[Franky]

If they shorten the stages (not the number of stages) than that's tha differance if you are spectating on a 1km vs a 50km stage? You only see a car for a few hundred meters max...

Short in time period. Just don't see the value of a 48 hour event, when from Estonia it would take minimum 5 hours of travelling to get to the island. 48 hours of rallying and about 15 hours of sitting in airports and planes.

[Eli]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-thinking-behind-sardinias-new-route/

An explanation from Simon Larkin.

[WRCStan]

Anybody running a sweep on number of entries?

[satnav]

I suggest that from 2025 wrc should cut off all the mechanics + services and go to ,,malle moto'' style of racing like dakar has for motorbikes - all the service and repairing has to be done by riders/drivers..

Don't give that working group any ideas

[Duvel]

I dont like the new style..

Make more stages! and remote service, more action on a shorter period, that could be something.

That its stupid to do long liasons to Alghero and back during the day is correct. So let them do some extra stages , and than some service action in the stages region.

Also stages like Ittiri, or Monte Baranta, nice for spectators, and easy to fit in to such timing!

[PLuto]

I still dont understand why they think that making events shorter and in a bigger hurry will make it better. All this is going against organisers, competitors and spectators. If you are find the money to come to the race abroad (and no matter if you are competitor or spectator), you want to enjoy it fully. WRC should be on higher level than national championships, you should feel you are on something better and you should enjoy it for few days... For example here on Sardegna, there are only two services. Do you think that mechanics of the teams would be happy to travel over the Europe to do only two services on the car? For most of the people around it is not normal job, but mainly passion. If they will stay at home, they will earn more money. But they are doing rallysport as they want to be part of that comunity, that it is something prestigious for them. But if you will cut all this enjoy, this people will stay at home next time. Is this really what we want?

[AndyRAC]

I don't like the new style..

Make more stages! and remote service, more action on a shorter period, that could be something.

That its stupid to do long liasons to Alghero and back during the day is correct. So let them do some extra stages , and than some service action in the stages region.

Also stages like Ittiri, or Monte Baranta, nice for spectators, and easy to fit in to such timing!

Surprisingly, I'm not totally against shorter events - however there are a few caveats to it.

Keep as much stage km as possible, and just run the event Friday, and finish on the Saturday evening - make it a shorter, but more intense event. I don't like the lack of service, so I'd change that. I also wouldn't be against another 1 or 2 events like this......providing we see the opposite.

For example, make the Monte & Safari longer and harder; Monte could run Wednesday afternoon until Saturday night......

Mix the formats up - it's what the sport was meant to be about; rather than the generic 'WRC event'.

[Atob WRC]

New route for the Shakedown, at Ittiri!!

It will be possibly a longer version that has been carried on 2015. On 2015, 1'40 kms, and for 2024 edition 2.08 kms. They can make it longer for the northern part of the special.

I don't like it all the idea of a SS "circuit" for the SD, but we will see.

[J4MIE]

Entry List:

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