British Rally Championship 2022

[the sniper]

Sounds like it's time to restrict tarmac rallying to private land and race tracks again. Any more closed road fiasco's like this just isn't acceptable.

I wouldn't say that. I think there's a place for them. I see them as better suited to events below BRC level, essentially replicating the spirit of the old road rallies, but legally as stage rallies. Club level guys, somewhat less competitive, some nice rural tarmac stages, avoiding the damage to cars associated with gravel rallies. The first year of Rali Bae Ceredigion worked well to my mind in this respect. I appreciate this isn't the 'bringing the sport to the people' vision some have sold closed road rallying on, but I think it's too late for that to pay off now. With the way spectators are supposed to be managed nowadays, I'm not sure 'bringing the sport to the people' in this way makes much sense anyway. Like Andy says, I think they missed the boat.