[WRC] News & Rumours 2020

[tommeke_B]

Good luck spreading spectators on Harju or the Kakaristo junction. Also I don't think there's going to be a discussion about how much each and every event could contribute to the spread of covid or not. It will be about a ban on travel and all sport events, on national levels or on European level. For Finland a final decision should be taken fist week of June. Still a month, a lot can change (for the better or for the worse). All we can do is wait and hope things turn out well.

[Tauri_J]

Spreading spectators would make it more dangerous. Its much easier to control people in designated spectator areas.

[pantealex]

Let´s assume that 2020 is cancelled.

How do we know that January 2021 has better situation than August 2020 or October 2020 ?

There is no cure for Corona until vaccines are ready maybe 2022.

We just can´t wait for ever...

I bet no one has right answer when to start.

[denkimi]

The sport isn´t that hazardeous to Covid as football or golf. It´s much more possible to spread out spectators.

But it's much more difficult to stop people from spectating.
You can easily close a stadium, but you can't close a whole region.

[Rallyper]

Good luck spreading spectators on Harju or the Kakaristo junction.

I´d say in one way or another IF NRF will be driven, they have to adjust the itinerary anyway. No Harju and no Lajavuori, I´d reccon.

But it's much more difficult to stop people from spectating.
You can easily close a stadium, but you can't close a whole region.

On the rally you don´t have to stop people. Spectators manage this themselves, I´m sure.

[AnttiL]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/wrc-c...nement-option/

Finland could be postponed to September or October (weird, since the organizers have strongly talked against this).

[AnttiL]

On the rally you don´t have to stop people. Spectators manage this themselves, I´m sure.

But if an accident happens, the organizers are responsible. That's why they want to manage it.

[Rallyper]

But if an accident happens, the organizers are responsible. That's why they want to manage it.

Well, marshalls have to see there´s not more than 50 people around car then...

[AnttiL]

Well, marshalls have to see there´s not more than 50 people around car then...

I'm seriously talking about accidents involving spectators. We had this in a Finland national event in 2018. The victim was sitting on the outside of a corner, drunk, when a car crashed over. And the organizers are still in the court for that.

[AnttiL]