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Ha ha, I thought you might mention this, I was going to PM you! I see a battle between JT & the teams - could be 'fun'.Quote:
Originally Posted by MJW
I know were he's coming from, but not every event should be the same. What's wrong with a mix including 2 day sprint events, and 4-5 day endurance events?
Just back from Finland.........hated the 2 day format!! absolutely shattered, and that was a common phrase used, and not inly by those of us of a certain age.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyRAC
As AndyRAC says, there should be variety. Events like Spain, New Zealand etc. can use 2-day formats, while rallies like GB, Finland, Kenya if it returns and Sweden/Norway could host 5 day events. GB was great when it toured the whole country, while a trip from Sweden to Norway could allow a rally to last a whole week - nonstop. Maybe I'm just dreaming.
New Zealand had over 400 km this year. I think that it's ok to have three days over such distance.
Yeah fine - just random examples. If it was up to me, NZ could last forever as its a great rally.
As a spectator I would love to have things more like the old days, but I feel those days are gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by MJW
Can you imagine crews making notes for 800 km of special stages??? Me - not. And how long will it take anyway? In that case Organisers will have to provide them with road books like in rally-raids, but this will only turn rallying into a kind of bajas...
i kind of like the format now, as a spectator, it means not too much traveling and helps keep my costs down, as rally viewing is not cheap!
In the days of the 5 -6 day Rally of NZ used to do a two pass convoy tour of the locked forestry stages under the control of the organisers and everything else in our own time. Generally this was all completed during the 4 - 6 days prior to the event. You just had to be organised and prepared to get out of bed early so as to be at the start of the 1st stage of the day at first light and them work flat out until the last possible hour of daylight in the evening. The organisers provided a standard road book and a set of std rally maps.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Sauron
I am also quite confident that most overseas teams had a crew who came out early to check conditions and to make all their local logistical arrangements and that they had people with them who prepared the initial copies of the stage notes and that the competing crews just checked and adjusted these during the recce period and perhaps only wrote their own notes during the convoy tour of the locked forests.
It was quite common for teams to make copies of their notes and sell them off to those who did not undertake recce