Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
Sorry Jan, the reason why You can't do Monte across the whole Europe is that there is completely different level of traffic and You simply can't close the international public roads without creating a complete traffic collapse everywhere around. In those days they drove on opened roads which is complete nonsense for today as somebody would be killed probably already in first few hours of the event.

Also, where is any sporting value (today) of driving for example from Poland to Monte Carlo when You can theoretically do nearly the whole route on rpm limiter?

Another point... How can You realisitically cope with different law, different bunch of bureaucrats, different local authorities and different languages in every single state You would go through?

OK slow down and look at one element at a time..
The Concentration run yes was done on open roads.. and the route was "FREE" except you must pass thru and be stamped at certain Passage Controls....and if the Passage Control is situated in an how shall we say "interesting" location, that means when you start from Warsava or Smolensk you will have to eventually PASS down this or that road--you have to get there.
And depending on how the Passage Controls are situated, the route can be pretty "interesting" to do in the middle of winter..
So technical challenge, no.."Sporting" maybe, but mental adventure for the driver/co-driver and fans following the progress for a week..potentially very good.

Really all excitement takes place in the brain, and the imagination is a big part of excitement---including the anticipation of action (just look at every thread here about good WRC or EM events, lots of anticipatory discussion)

So anticipatory build up could be some spice---the thing which has faded as the events become predictable sprints every single one.

The actual SS of course same as now--closed roads, marshaled, uzw

As for traffic regs---well on concentration run the cars are ---oh. wait..The cars are not road legal in any way now..


ooops..

Whatever the case, the main point is the cookie-cutter format, schedule, execution of events..

The locales, the different countries are now, with the sameness of the aspects of events, mainly just different backdrop....different often very pretty but mainly scenery..

They could do it CGI and Blue Screen