[WRC] Ardeca Ypres Rally 2022

[ouvreur]

"A Toksport team member went to a turn to film a deep cut of the rivals. He went there with that purpose. A day later, his video is used in a complaint in an attempt to win the rally after the rally has finished. I think it's far from fair play and far from the spirit of rally." A quick question regarding this: What about the regulation that forbids any team member being present on a Special Stage?

It's actually something specifically allowed by the sporting regulations (Article 56.2.1) - between the yellow control board of the arrival time control, to the exit of the stop control of each stage team members are allowed to be there, provided they respect the rest of the regulations regarding service / contact with the cars and team members.

[MentalParadox]

"A Toksport team member went to a turn to film a deep cut of the rivals. He went there with that purpose. A day later, his video is used in a complaint in an attempt to win the rally after the rally has finished. I think it's far from fair play and far from the spirit of rally."

Basically, they're saying "we got caught red-handed and now I want the person who caught us punished for catching us." Real popular in Belgium, where homeowners are arrested for violations of privacy if they use cameras or webcams to film burglars.

[flat_right]

Real popular in Belgium, where homeowners are arrested for violations of privacy if they use cameras or webcams to film burglars.

Will be off-topic but how on earth can this even be a thing? You can't film your own home? Like what...

[J4MIE]

They broke the rules and got penalised for it, nothing else matters.
You can submit a protest all the way up until the results going final, so again there’s no issue there at all.

[Integrale]

Will be off-topic but how on earth can this even be a thing? You can't film your own home? Like what...

It's not a thing because it's not true. You can film a burglar perfectly fine in your own home. Only the burglar gets arrested if they find him. But it sounded spectacular, right?

Basically, they're saying "we got caught red-handed and now I want the person who caught us punished for catching us."

They're not saying they want the person who filmed them punished. Nice pattern of alternative facts there.

They broke the rules and got penalised for it, nothing else matters.
You can submit a protest all the way up until the results going final, so again there’s no issue there at all.

Of course other things matter, like how you enforce the rules, the incoherence over all competitors (and rallies) and the effect it has on the fairplay between teams in the future.