[WRC] Safari Rally 2022

**AnttiL** · 3rd February 2022, 07:05

Originally Posted by the sniper

To be fair, you're not not wrong on the former point, but up until 2017, it wasn't unusual to have at least five rallies over 350km per season. '17 & '18 we had three, then things started going really downhill from '19 onwards, largely due to Covid lately, admittedly. 363km in 2016 was not particularly special though.

I wanted to check this so I made this chart

In 2016 363 km Safari would have been the sixth-longest event.

Last event to be over 400 km: Argentina 2014
Last event to be over 500 km: Argentina 2012 (the previous is Safari 2002, previous "normal" event Argentina 1996)

**AnttiL** · 3rd February 2022, 07:08

One more thing about this 363 km Safari: I don't want to hear anyone complaining on Sunday when they have those 96 km to go, differences are in minutes, half the cars in super rally and the two stages before power stage are just tyre saving cruising.

**RAS007** · 4th February 2022, 18:56

363km, eh? Who said endurance events were dead? 🙄

**WRCStan** · 4th February 2022, 22:10

Originally Posted by AnttiL

I wanted to check this so I made this chart

Following the trend it looks like we'll hit zero in 2033!

Top work Antti.

**AnttiL** · 5th February 2022, 05:29

Originally Posted by WRCStan

Following the trend it looks like we'll hit zero in 2033!

Top work Antti.

No, it’s already going upward, the 2022 events known so far average to 325 km

**EstWRC** · 26th May 2022, 06:05

Ogier will be back behind the wheel again for Toyota

**Danny0405** · 26th May 2022, 11:40

Originally Posted by EstWRC

Ogier will be back behind the wheel again for Toyota

Loeb is also evoked for Safari (but not confirmed yet)
One of the 3 rallies he didn’t win in career (with Chile and Poland but he did all of them only 1 time)