If you want a great new tarmac rally in WRC, the nearest thing could be if Rally GB moves to Northern Ireland.
Barum is too small as stated and exciting enough with just R5 cars.
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Without the confirmation that Llarena got his puncture before the red flag it seems hard to say Torn was robbed; still, it’s quite a shame to see an exciting ERC3 Junior championship being decided behind the curtain.
To add more confusion to this matter, Llarena said to AS that Franceschi was stoping to let Torn pass him on the stage but the red flag changed their tactic (which seems a bit strange as it’d be easier to halt just once, rather than several times…). https://as.com/motor/2019/08/19/mas_...93_869093.html
Btw, Llarena is entered by the spanish ASN (RFEA) under the Rally Team Spain badge; having the RFEA pressuring the organizers to change a direct (privately entered) competitor notional time, while avoiding his own time to be changed due to the flat tyre issue, was probably vital for Llarena’s late success.
Was Estonian ASN president there? Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't the guy in the middle the RFEA president?
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Just catching up with this thread. Loubet - well, about the same distance off road, but Arai's car was in a much steeper angle. If you look at the Loubet rescue video, he drives back up mostly. Arai on the other hand, about 45 degree angle, that's very hard to pull a car back up. And what Mirek says, this is a high speed place with most of the crews just coming. Loubet's place with a warning was relatively safe to rescue.
You can judge fellow spectators for not trying from home, but please don't do it publicly.
Tänak and Neuville have been already there in IRC era. However didn't drive WRC but S2000, which is a big difference. ;) As far as I remember organizers were trying to candidate this rally to be WRC event but they left it later. Maybe Czech guys can confirm my memo.
On that place Ilka Minor already said they wouldn't even restart on sunday. Hiroki was blaming the tyres for the crash... It's not like they were asking someone to push them back on the road. Also with that angle the car was in, and all the bushes around it, you would need a rope to pull the car out of the deep ditch.
Yes. According to this article Barum Rally was a candidate for the WRC in 2005:
http://skoda.tj/en/motorsport/rally/...ech-rally-zlin
Pluto can say more but at some point there were WRC ambitions indeed. I think that it would be realistically possible only if Škoda entered WRC but as Tommeke said the infrastructure would be an issue for sure. I honestly can't imagine let's say 2x more spectators than now.