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I have understood the Power stage live broadcast is set to Sunday noon not to overlap with other popular sports (F1 later in the afternoon, football on Saturday evening). I could be wrong though.
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Yeah, I know there is no easy solution.

I tried to find earlier examples of this tyre saving thing. Ogier has seemed to attempt it in Portugal 2018 (having crashed on Friday). He finished 10th,...

I repeat: if drivers are in "no-mands-land" with minutes back and front or super rally, they have no reason to push anyway. Of course they won't drive road mode, but not pushing for stage wins...

So essentially it's just a power stage, but they have it already at the end of first day? Does the super stage award extra points on Saturday as well?

Yes. First of all, it's not so easy to get 5 power stage points. Even with your preserved tyres, you had to drive the stage without mistakes. And remember that super rally restarters are first WRC...

To me this seems odd, like having an external rallycross contest on the side of the actual rally

Think from the perspective of someone who is restarting on Sunday just to score on this Golden...

I don't find this a problem myself, but apparently many people do.

Like Matton says, adding fresh tyres is an easy solution, but against cost/environmental idealism. At the same time, it wouldn't...

https://dirtfish.com/rally/is-the-powerstage-still-fair/

I don’t see this happening. You can only nominate three cars to score points. Being positioned high gives more points than power stage, so it makes no sense to cruise during the beginning of the...

But then Greensmith couldn't enter the power stage :D

EDIT: Joking aside, this kind of rule would obviously be very hard to put into practice.

Until 1995 you had flying service between every stage, or even during the stage. Helicopter service was banned in 1986, and mid-stage tyre changes were banned in 1988. In 1995 that service parks...

Well, you said that fans are missing something if there's less cars on Sunday, but frequently we hear complaints from restarted drivers saving their tyres throughout Sundays.

Think about this: how can the service van get to the end of the stage faster than the rally car? Yes, they can't. That's why in the past they had two service groups (or god knows if Lancia had more)...

From 1995 to 2006 there was no fly-in service nor superrally. Well, from 1995 to 2001 there was still multiple service parks, but 2001-2006 was mostly single service park with no superrally.

Oh yeah, we totally missed the experience of watching Tänak saving his tyres throughout Sunday morning!

Yes, I'm not the one saying it needs a solution, but just trying to suggest something more realistic than having tyre vans at the last TC before service.

Good article about the three-wheel rule

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/whats-the-rule-that-tanak-broke/

Perhaps a solution to the tyre issue would be a some sort of can of tyre filling mousse that would handle ~100 km of liaison, but would be unusable on a special stage? That way no one would have to...

Far from brainless. It's just a way to remind the competitors that this kind of cutting should not be done, the route should be equal for all drivers.

- One single WRC2 series
- WRC2 manufacturer/team championship
- Privateer cup for drivers who are not within manufacturer/teams. But privateers score also WRC2 points.

Not sure if it's that...

When rallying started, most of the rallies were just liaisons. Rallies like Safari were basically nothing but liaisons. I don't see a problem with having liaisons. This is what separates rallying...