Rally Portugal 2016

[Simmi]

Sporting point of view: stop the stage and postponned start of the other stages and re arrange remaining of the day.
But who would like that solution?

In an ideal world yes. But I would say when the rally is moving it's nearly impossible to do this. Plus when you have a street stage in a big city coming up and all the planning that goes into that - you can't afford to be delaying that kind of event.

It's the sort of situation where you can't make 100% of the people happy.

[PLuto]

EWRC results show everyone after Latvala getting time 44.4s slower than scratch. Disaster for Meeke if true, puts him 27s behind

For sure this is only "provisional" time...

[Doon]

It should be a notional time, regardless of who was quickest up to the point of cars stopping. Sordo takes credit for the stage victory - everyone else from first to last car has the same time. The stage was yellow flagged on safety grounds. Hopefully the rules say notional time.

[Mirek]

Sporting point of view: stop the stage and postponned start of the other stages and re arrange remaining of the day.
But who would like that solution?

That's completely impossible for many reasons. Are You aware of that? Besides that it solves exactly nothing unless the problem wchich stops the stage happens in few hundred meters of it without any follwong crew already started. Even then it's not ideal as the tyres of the stopped crews get cold. Anyway it's theoretical debate as nobody is going to keep a stage on hold for one hour (don't know how in WRC but in our national championship it's even forbidden for safety reasons).

[Mirek]

It should be a notional time, regardless of who was quickest up to the point of cars stopping. Sordo takes credit for the stage victory - everyone else from first to last car has the same time. The stage was yellow flagged on safety grounds. Hopefully the rules say notional time.

Will You do the same when some R2 blocks the stage? Will You just erase all times of cars which came through the stage before? That happens very often You know. How many times per every rally would You do that? If not how can You justify to act differently when it happens to some top crew and when it happens to some nameless competitor from WRC3 or so?

[bluuford]

That's completely impossible for many reasons. Are You aware of that? Besides that it solves exactly nothing unless the problem wchich stops the stage happens in few hundred meters of it without any follwong crew already started. Even then it's not ideal as the tyres of the stopped crews get cold. Anyway it's theoretical debate as nobody is going to keep a stage on hold for one hour (don't know how in WRC but in our national championship it's even forbidden for safety reasons).

I anm not sure but some events in Finland are like this that when some people need to go out from their home then stage will be stopped until residents can pass the stage and then rally continues

[ZequeArgentina]

That's completely impossible for many reasons. Are You aware of that? Besides that it solves exactly nothing unless the problem wchich stops the stage happens in few hundred meters of it without any follwong crew already started. Even then it's not ideal as the tyres of the stopped crews get cold. Anyway it's theoretical debate as nobody is going to keep a stage on hold for one hour (don't know how in WRC but in our national championship it's even forbidden for safety reasons).

For sure I know, thats why i said from a Sporting point of view, but not reallistic.
Now you see Meeke gaining time in last part of SS/, probably the newer tires have something to do.
Very difficult solution for these cases.

[er88]

One way or another, Ogier is lucky Meeke is not out of sight. I'm sure Meeke would've gone faster than sordo on that stage considering how well he's been driving today. He wouldve at least matched it

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[Doon]

Will You do the same when some R2 blocks the stage? Will You just erase all times of cars which came through the stage before? That happens very often You know. How many times per every rally would You do that? If not how can You justify to act differently when it happens to some top crew and when it happens to some nameless competitor from WRC3 or so?

No, but it was a P1 car that went off and the P1 cars were affected. So scrap all stage times, because it will be terrible for publicity if the top cars are penalised when helping a crew potentially trouble.

[Simmi]

Wow. Meeke seemingly gets handed fastest time on SS5 - 5.2 quicker than Sordo. I wonder how they came to that decision and that time margin specifically?