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29th September 2018, 10:42 #281
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that cant be true
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29th September 2018, 11:28 #282
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Is it April’s fools already?
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29th September 2018, 12:52 #283
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Yes, in the rallyradio they were talking about it. Also mentioned that a possible stop mid-stage was thought about but apparently they know themselves too that that would be bad idea for road conditions as its essentially a secondary start line midstage that would create big ruts.
Also i dont remember if it was talk of FIA, but the finnish rally championship organisers that were trying to come up with these ideas. I think if you can go back in the radio broadcast it was somewhere mid stage 4 where they talked about Pietarinen having 136 kmh average speed.
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29th September 2018, 13:16 #284
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That explains, if it’s just an idea for the local series. Sorry, I should have checked it before posting but I was just so shocked of the thought...
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29th September 2018, 13:44 #285
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Yeah, reason for it seemed to be making normal chicanes to slow down stages require too much effort and manpower that AKK were exploring other options such as virtual chicanes to force slowdown zones on stages. I was listening to it and only recall talk about AKK being behind it and the radio ppl said they should keep trying to innovate other solutions for the problem
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29th September 2018, 13:50 #286
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29th September 2018, 16:35 #287
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Here is something similar from Australia called "speed zone" I guess it's fine if It's in a remote area where there's not much to see anyway. Would suck a bit if it was just before a cool corner though.
No hay bales to hit at least which very often causes a lot of damage.
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29th September 2018, 18:48 #288
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Holy moly, what an idea. I have even better proposition - why don't they just come with an idea that the slowest guy wins the rally. No more do they need to worry about speedtraps or speed in general....
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29th September 2018, 19:38 #289
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If there is a long straight and today you would put a chicane. You can instead add electronically controlled zone where for example the car has to slow down to 60 kph at some point within given 100m zone. You'd get sound or a light that turns on once you hit that speed and after that you are free to accelerate. Obviously there would have to be small penalties for either not slowing down enough or for not slowing within the given zone.
It sounds more artificial than chicanes from hay-balls but on the positive side:
- no damage to car from hitting them
- no unfair situation when the balls get moved
- no need to address penalties for moving the balls
- no need to have people on site to both move the balls and hand out penalties to drivers
So yeah don't get all the screaming going on here. Obviously it's better to have stages that don't need slowing down.
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29th September 2018, 20:22 #290
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Yes I fear so too, you just need to look at the new cost for tourists to get into Venice and when everyone sees the amount of money being made others will soon follow, and prices will go up. As...
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