Maybe the drivers should stop like some did in the Group B days.
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Now SS6 is interrupted.
Stage stopped !
Even if there are marshalls there if a group of idiots decide to do stupid things the marshalls can't force them... The results is what we see right now, cancelled stages.
The Facebook link to Lappi's crash seems to have been taken down. The problem for most events is they simply don't have enough marshals to cover the whole stage, but what happened to the talk of stopping stages when it was obvious from the live in-car that there were dickheads standing is stupid dangerous places?
They are just not able to handle these situations! There should be marshalls and polices in every place and of course it´s not possible, so not a right place for the WRC event.
Too many rally fans, and some casuals who dont behave well, was a worry memtioned on the Dirtfish preview podcast.
There is also far too many idiots at rallies that just simply ignore marshalls instructions.
So no Rally Finland aswell, I guess?
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/ss5-c...fety-concerns/
Unfortunately proper and abundant organisation is not enough, even if it meets highest possible standards. It is not even the most important factor. Rallies are given , only if it's accompanied with thickness of organisers wallet that meets highest possible standards.
Or... maybe just check their wallets, and organisation will surely follow.
Gone are the days of McRae and Sainz being allowed to fight for the acropolis win in just their tshirts :D
That the number of marshalls today is inadequate to the number of spectators is quite clear. At this moment there is no other crowd control option left than trying to enforce self control via cancelation of the stage. Therefore I consider the cancelation to be a correct decision.
Anyway of all international events I did in my life there were people in stupid places in all of them and to be absolutely honest when I was younger I was sometimes in stupid places too. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone...
The next one is delayed?
Might cancel it as well
15:41 new start
SS7 will start at 15:41 due to cancellation of the previous stage.
Finally ! The Heli is up !
By today standards everything is dangerous in rallying, everything is forbiden.
The spectatores are all crazy (the ones on stages, because at home in front of a screen all are conscencious...)
And at the end all of you still want spectators at stages?!?!?!
Rallying is condemned because people don't undesrtand that is impossible to have stages 99% secures like circuits.
So far I haven't seen a single person standing in a bad place on SS7. Let's hope it continues smoothly.
Some sections are dry already.
Kalle 25s slower than this morning.
Tänak should have used softs already now
Yep raining again on ss8
According to Becks the stewards refused to give Gus back any time for him being slowed by spectators at Mikkelsen's accident.
Linnamäe crashed.
This rally shows how bad Loubet is.