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A less than 40kms on Sunday & less than 100 on Friday feels like a joke tbh... and to add insult to injury it seems to be the way going forward from 2025...
You posted this on the wrong date, it isn't April 1st today...
Ah..
Total distance 266km and 150km of it you have to drive without service..
And once again, another impressive change that brings extra manus to the series.. right.
I was thinking to go to Sardegna as spectator this year. But with so short and stupid schedule, it is not worth for me to spend money for this comedy. This documents helped me with my choice...
I wish it was a comedy, more like a tragedy on our side, & it's only the beginning, don't wanna know what's waiting for us around the corner in 2025.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
I suggest that from 2025 wrc should cut off all the mechanics + services and go to ,,malle moto'' style of racing like dakar has for motorbikes - all the service and repairing has to be done by riders/drivers..Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
Tänak would be the champ lolQuote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
But shameful itineary for spectators
I think it is shameful itinerary for everybody... Maybe only promoter will like it as they can save one day of transmission...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tauri_J
Exactly the same feeling. Short events just aren't worth the cost.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
Not much wrong with easily 2/4/2 stages without any rushing I would say?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tauri_J
Will be mass migration from SS5/7 to SS10/12 then?Quote:
Originally Posted by MartijnS
If they shorten the stages (not the number of stages) than that's tha differance if you are spectating on a 1km vs a 50km stage? You only see a car for a few hundred meters max...Quote:
Originally Posted by Franky
Should be enough time i'd say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Myrvold
Short in time period. Just don't see the value of a 48 hour event, when from Estonia it would take minimum 5 hours of travelling to get to the island. 48 hours of rallying and about 15 hours of sitting in airports and planes.Quote:
Originally Posted by ictus
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-t...ias-new-route/
An explanation from Simon Larkin.
Anybody running a sweep on number of entries?
Don't give that working group any ideasQuote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
I dont like the new style..
Make more stages! and remote service, more action on a shorter period, that could be something.
That its stupid to do long liasons to Alghero and back during the day is correct. So let them do some extra stages , and than some service action in the stages region.
Also stages like Ittiri, or Monte Baranta, nice for spectators, and easy to fit in to such timing!
I still dont understand why they think that making events shorter and in a bigger hurry will make it better. All this is going against organisers, competitors and spectators. If you are find the money to come to the race abroad (and no matter if you are competitor or spectator), you want to enjoy it fully. WRC should be on higher level than national championships, you should feel you are on something better and you should enjoy it for few days... For example here on Sardegna, there are only two services. Do you think that mechanics of the teams would be happy to travel over the Europe to do only two services on the car? For most of the people around it is not normal job, but mainly passion. If they will stay at home, they will earn more money. But they are doing rallysport as they want to be part of that comunity, that it is something prestigious for them. But if you will cut all this enjoy, this people will stay at home next time. Is this really what we want?
Surprisingly, I'm not totally against shorter events - however there are a few caveats to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duvel
Keep as much stage km as possible, and just run the event Friday, and finish on the Saturday evening - make it a shorter, but more intense event. I don't like the lack of service, so I'd change that. I also wouldn't be against another 1 or 2 events like this......providing we see the opposite.
For example, make the Monte & Safari longer and harder; Monte could run Wednesday afternoon until Saturday night......
Mix the formats up - it's what the sport was meant to be about; rather than the generic 'WRC event'.
New route for the Shakedown, at Ittiri!!
It will be possibly a longer version that has been carried on 2015. On 2015, 1'40 kms, and for 2024 edition 2.08 kms. They can make it longer for the northern part of the special.
I don't like it all the idea of a SS "circuit" for the SD, but we will see.
Hi, anyone have experience with this route https://mapy.cz/s/bedudugeme from Oschiri to Monte Lerno stage - hairpin on 17km from start? If it´s doable by normal car?
Thanks.
I would like to know that as well. In 2023 the part of your linked access road was actually a stage, so I guess that section would be doable (will check from WRC+ onboards later). But not sure about the first section of your access road - altough in mapy.cz it is marked as a cycling path (same as the latter section), so maaaybee it could be OK?
https://opu.peklo.biz/p/24/05/15/1715752016-5e977.jpg
Yep, you´re right. Also first part of linked road is on google street view. They ended about 6,5 km from start of linked road. Last picture https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6814...6656?entry=ttu shows little bit rocky road. But it´s from 2011 so lot of things can change.Quote:
Originally Posted by DoN_cz
And same question about this route https://mapy.cz/s/navazamaje to Tempio stage.
I tried sending you PM on this forum, but I think it's broken (I don't see any sent items). Is there any contact how to reach you, so we could share together some plans? If you have IG, you can contact me here https://www.instagram.com/ondrej.zeman.wrc/
This is not doable, I tried all roads last year from that side. I spent maybe 2-3 hours there. There is access from first junction, from finish (normal days gate is closed there) and to your place, there should be access from last year finish. I search accesses for meteo crews last year, this stage had zero access apart from start and finish, gate in todays finish was closed.Quote:
Originally Posted by ReRe
Thank you. Ok so i will use official access to last year´s finish. But it´s pain in the ass, that we have to drive around whole hill. Proper jeep is needed for this roads :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
I tried some access from north and then went along river to find some ways up. I had Citroen C5 and at some point I used it like Jeep. Road was very narrow between bushes and water erosion was so bad in may places that I had space to place 1/3 of the wheel on the edge of the steep erosional gulley (rest was just hanging in the air :P) and then in one point I made a picture where I had ca 1.5 m deep depression under my car :P Some places I had to place smoother rocks under the wheels to get pass from nastier places.. finally I turned around and passed very steep and broken bridge across the river.. So, I do not suggest this road to anyone :P
Last year I went to see the first Tempio Pausiana stage and then we went over to the second Tula Erula stage. That is perfectly doable. There is a lot of parking space in the streets leading up to the start of the Tempio Pausiana stage and we had a perfect seat under the trees at the 1st corner. Leaving the Tempio Pausiana stage was fairly easy to go next stage and we went to park the car at the Parco Eolico Sa Turrina Manna which is very close to the Tula Erula stage. From there you can take a good walk to watch lots of different parts of the very spectator friendly Tula Erula stage. This year sadly I will not be there after years seeing Rally Sardegna Italia, including the Covid yearsQuote:
Originally Posted by ReRe
Hello
Do we know what its a weather prediction?
I will be there as accreditated photographer.
My last visit im sardinia was in 2017
We, normal people, can't predict from pages like Yr, it is still far away.. Only If some Italians here have some long-term forecast which is quite reliable?Quote:
Originally Posted by sete
Currently looking nice, much better than last year. Temperature trends are moving closer to +30 degrees. Recent (couple of days ago) heavy rains might have affected access roads, so, try to prefer larger roads, or make sure you have spare wheel.Quote:
Originally Posted by sete
https://www.yr.no/nb/v%C3%A6rvarsel/...assari/Alghero
Still early days but maybe some chance of rain during the weekend
According to last couple of rallies, there is no point to believe any of the weather predictions :DQuote:
Originally Posted by CeskyOndra
I believe it if I see it on AllLive or being on stage myself :D
So rallying week again and let’s see how this new format works then that they are testing for next year. Sunday just 39kms….
I’m most interested to see how Virves performs now that he has a competitive car underneath him.
Ogier or Tänak for the win I guess.
How is the weather prediction btw?
A big rally for Elfyn Evans and Toyota to see if they can make any ground on Neuville and Hyundai after the disappointing scores in Portugal.
Toyota have tested here after poor results in the last few years so it needs to pay off.
For me this new format is working perfectly. I was planning to go to this rally as a spectator (only as spectator to WRC event after many, many years), but after publication of format and schedule, everybody from our group decided not to go... Good job, FIA.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC