Rally Argentina

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Originally Posted by bt52b

Bit like like the 1984 Monaco GP when it was cut short because the rain was so bad and they awarded half points. Prost won the championship by half a point that year.

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In fact Prost lost the championship by half a point.
He was declared winner of the Monaco GP with half of the points (4,5)
If the race had been declared complete the next lap and Prost handed 6 points for second he would have been champion by 1 point.

Sorry completely off topic. Just to precise.

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Originally Posted by Rally_Rocks

As things stand in Argentina, if all remaining stages in Leg 2 and 3 of the rally are completed, we will be 13kms short of the required distance for full points.

Apparently it might be possible to add the required kms to the remaining scheduled distance.

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If it's only 13 km, they could do a couple of extra laps on the remaining Superspecials. They wouldn't undergo the embarrasment of half points. Would they?

If i was God, Argentina would not be a happy place to be right now......

Calm down guys. After all it's the weather to blame. Organizers hasn't done much wrong. Except maybe cutting the schedule a bit short.

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Originally Posted by Gard

Calm down guys. After all it's the weather to blame. Organizers hasn't done much wrong. Except maybe cutting the schedule a bit short.

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You could do a rally without roll-bar in the car and with no problems at all... except if you crash. But do you even imagine in doing a rally in a car without roll-bar?

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Originally Posted by Gard

Calm down guys. After all it's the weather to blame.

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Must have been the first time ever they have bad weather in Argentina...? Where is the back up plan? How come cars managed to get in on time but drivers not? No busses in Argentina? It's all to organisers to blame about the mess.

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Originally Posted by Gard

Calm down guys. After all it's the weather to blame. Organizers hasn't done much wrong. Except maybe cutting the schedule a bit short.

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Silly question.

Why not run at night?

Oh, wait, ISC/FIA killed that idea years ago...

And the organizers are very much to blame. The Cordoba airport has constant fog problems, and the Buenos Aires airport is notorious for problems with radar. The organizers put forth a plan that had two very serious flaws that they had no way to control for. I mean cripes, the whole thing hinging on the condition of being able to land 3 jets at an airport notorious for fog problems, at night, which is the prime time for fog in the first place. The lack of an exectuable contingency plan for this very possible scenario is pathetic.

This was a bad idea from the beginning and now the rally is a complete sham because of it.

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Originally Posted by JAM

You could do a rally without roll-bar in the car and with no problems at all... except if you crash. But do you even imagine in doing a rally in a car without roll-bar?

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I agree, their schedule was a bit risky.

All that interests DR is money thats why he ruined WRC to line his pockets!!!

They should have made it a WRC raid, from Buenos Aires to Cordoba. At night! Now that would have been spectacular!