Points for every stage, been saying this for a while
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I think you got a little carried away with your analogy.
Points for every stage would remove sunday's episodes of granny driving to the store. We would also see drivers pushing more on fridays and saturdays.
Points for every stage would fundamentally change the nature of rallying.
Win from 2km SSS by 0.1s should give same points as win by 30s on 30km stage? Obviously not. So you given different points depending on stage length? Well that's almost the same as using time and much less logical.
How about a situation where a driver gets a big lead early? Should he be "punished" for that and forced to push vs crashed out drivers that have nothing to loose?
What could be done is "support"/"additional" points per day. But those only need to be a small fraction of total points, and then the question is if they have any real effects or if they just confuse point counting.(some local championships have those, can't say I see much effect there)
Just some thoughts - extra points per stage win, power stage, extra point for Sunday etc are for entertainment for spectators and for extra drama.
Rally is "marathon". Should marathon (42.1km running) have extra medals for "last 10km", "every 1km in last 10km", "best finish" etc point? Probably not. If someone ran away with first 10km, then this is how it is for rest of the marathon.
me reading all the proposals here
http://www.rallifoorum.ee/foorum/dow...ile.php?id=713