[WRC] Safari Rally Kenya 2021

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Acropolis couldn’t even make it to the minimum of 300 km this year…

You can't make the rallies longer by just increasing the limit, the whole structure must support the longer format. More tyres, more service visits, more driving days, more days of recce...equals more expenses. Who pays for that? Who wants that other than a small group of old farts who crave for nostalgy? The average spectator who watches the two live stages on TV or goes to spectate one stage on his domestic rally? The drivers for example have said rallies could be already shorter than they are now.

a) The average Greek spectator laughs at this year's Acropolis. No Greek spectator considers this year's rally worthy of the name Acropolis. (This year's Acropolis is soft, despite being silly short). It is not "small group of old farts", it is almost everyone.
b) It is not nostalgy. It is purely an opinion that not all rallies should be just sprints and some of them should have the endurance element.
c) There can be a three days Acropolis, with exactly the same format as this year's, but with more than 500 km of SS. No extra service parks, just extra tyre changes. The increase in cost for the organizer will be a very small percentage of the total cost. There is no need for extra days for recce and the increase in recce fuel will be less than 150 euros per crew, there is no increase in cost for hotels and the only actual increase will be on the cost of tyres. OK, it is 12 tyres more per 4WD car. A cost of about 4000 euros. I don't think that any of these teams is not able to afford it for one or two rallies per year.