Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
Length of an event - now 300-350 km, then 500-1000 km (and then the African rallies were something else)
Since the Group B era of the 1980s, it had been protocol for the top teams to assign each car its own spotter helicopter, due to the event’s vast uncontrolled stages. It was “hideously expensive,” according to Paul Howarth, the Subaru team’s former operations director, “but bloody exciting.”

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/f...s-safari-rally