[WRC] Rally Italia Sardegna 2024

What happened to Formaux? Isn't he supposed to open the road?

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Originally Posted by Kras

He should be happy that they made wins worthless this year. He can break so many records uncontested

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If he would change plans now, he would even be in good position to get another title.

Nice insight from Sordo on driving these cars.

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Originally Posted by becher

What happened to Formaux? Isn't he supposed to open the road?

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He was late on SS9 start, don't know why but that's his running position now.

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

It's no good knocking Ogier, he didnt make the new (points) rules. And he's only doing what he's done all his career - win rallies.

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I'm not knocking Ogier, but did he really win the last rally?

From any competitiors standpoint Tanak was the winner. Is it a win when noone actually competes for it? Its like losing a tennis match 6:1, 6:7, 6:7 and saying you've won most games

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Originally Posted by becher

Are you daft? Having three cars still in the running is different than having two. Lose another and you are done manufacturers wise.

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Toyota are down to two as well.

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Originally Posted by Backa

If he would change plans now, he would even be in good position to get another title.

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It would be great if he did that, part-timers are boring anyway. But i doubt it will happen

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Originally Posted by Kras

I'm not knocking Ogier, but did he really win the last rally?

From any competitiors standpoint Tanak was the winner. Is it a win when noone actually competes for it? Its like losing a tennis match 6:1, 6:7, 6:7 and saying you've won most games

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That's contradicting your own argument.

The fastest overall time is the winner, not the most points.

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

That's contradicting your own argument.

The fastest overall time is the winner, not the most points.

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It's not contradicting. An argument could be made that tennis making no difference between 1:6 and 7:6 sets is not ideal, but it is how it is. The player who wins more sets wins and everyone fights to win more sets. The nominal win corresponds to objective win. In wrc every driver competing for the overall position try to score most points relative to others. Objective win is scoring most points, but nominal win is something else. This devalues the nominal win

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Originally Posted by Kras

This devalues the nominal win

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It absolutely does but this is nothing new. It's been noted and criticized since the new scoring scheme was published. That's up to FIA, not to us, drivers or even teams.

It's also a question to be debated on thread other than this one.