Quote Originally Posted by sollitt View Post
But today, with events being of a sprint nature, each with a handful of repeated stages, they all look the same. You could probably run the entire series in one country and the viewing public would not notice ... or care.
I kind of agree with this in "sterile" sporting point of view where you count only the seconds, but.... rallies has still its unique characteristics - snow and ice on Monte Carlo, forest fast and flowing snow stages in Sweden, high altitude gravel stages in Mexico and so on. Even in Europe solely You can have various and unique events. It doesn't need to travel to each corner of the Earth to be "World Championship", but the more, the better, and surely the rest of the World has something to offer. True rally fans would recognize this, not so sure sure with "the general public".