Well this topic comes up again every now and then. Most of the time there is a logistical reason why the need to interrupt the coverage between two stages.
Yeah, that's true, but after SS7 there was time for two more cars. Instead, they decided to show us some nice watches :) If you are "promoter", I guess it up to you to promote whatever you want.
Found the seeding strange as well but it's in championship order and the two favourites ate way down the order.
It's strange, two Lancia cars are leading WRC2, but we didn't see much of them on RallyTV today. At least we saw in full length how Skoda drivers are changing tires.

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