It's easier to keep the stage crew, emergency staff, timing equipment and cameras from having to rush around. And it's a bit easier to wrangle the spectators, too.
I kind of miss the panic of tearing down a stage and moving the crew to another location thirty minutes away - triple that for collecting everyone then stringing out marshals on the new stage - but that's because my normal work is much more relaxed.
Well, in the 80´s they had over 50 stages in Rally Finland. Don´t know how many ran twice, but it wasn´t that many...
"Reis vas pät pat kaar vas kut"
Tommi Mäkinen, back in the years...
Idk how much reliable is Google translate, but
"We are working on the project to prepare for WRC 27, a development step that interests us"
doesn't sound like they are talking about next season....
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