Rally Wrc Mexicooo 2016

[AL14]

Talking about QS and road position. It all comes to one word, dominance. We all were witnesses of what happens when one person dominance to much. All those Loebs years caused preety big damage to WRC. Losing factories, less and less followers. And FIA knows that they can't let anyone to dominate WRC too much, cause it is going to be same story again. Well now we have more or less VW dominance which is not perfect but still better than Ogier winning everything he can.

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You have a point. But now they've gone too far, and it is also pretty useless to create more excitement around the sport in this way, for a number of reasons:

1) QS was a problem because it was too much in favor for the best and, most important, allowed drivers and teams to make tactics and that kind of things that are not good. So, even if it is the more fair solution, I can understand a little modification to make the championship a little more exciting. And 2014 was a pretty good compromise in my opinion. But now it is too much extreme. Don't forget that in 2014, even if Ogier's dominance and his title was not too much in question, it has been still the championship where he had more problems against Latvala.

2) As other said, Ogier is still winning, so if they wanted to "fight dominance" and create more excitment, they failed. Badly.

3) Seeing other drivers winning events could be good for attract a casual fan in a first phase, but if their goal is to transform him in a hardcore fan (that's the kind of fans sponsors are looking for), it will be very hard considering this guy is witnessing rallys where the best has no chance to win, or, in events like Monte, where the best is even advantaged and others have no chance. (where is the thrill? The excitment?)

4) As said before, if this can give huge disadvantage to the first in the ranking for the gravel rallies, it gives him too much advantage in events like some asphalt rally, or even gravel if it rains.

I think this weekend we have lost a chance to see Ogier and Latvala carrying on an exciting and fair fight. Maybe Jari Matti could have crashed, maybe Ogier could have been faster, or maybe not. Who knows? I don't like to don't know what could have happened. Don't you?