Rally Wrc Monte Carlo 2017

[Andre Oliveira]

lol
https://twitter.com/Rogelio_Penate

Poor Rogelio

[EstWRC]

[Andre Oliveira]

[MartinH3000]

Why is there no service between Saturday and Sunday? People do not travel hundreds of miles and pay hundreds of Euros to not watch their favorite driver. What part of "spectator sport" do the FIA not understand? Every effort should be made to keep all cars on the road to the end. And why are they increasing the power stage points to make the last day more important, then excluding cars from the last day?

I taught there was a service after SS13. Or am I imagining things?

[tolx]

Isn' t that RMC specific? Just like they disabled rally2 for sunday.
I remember that on other rallies there are always service on the end of day and rally2 on all days.

[Mirek]

Final thought: MC is a unique and iconic event, there’s no way WRC can go on without it, but, once for all, the FIA, the organizers and local authorities must control spectator’s behaviour.

2009-2011 four years of WRC without Monte Carlo and the world didn't crash. Yes, it is an iconic event but the truth is that both WRC and the Monte Carlo rally can live without each other just like they did in the past. Both together is of course the better option.

[dimviii]

the fastest 2wd

[Mirek]

Why is there no service between Saturday and Sunday? People do not travel hundreds of miles and pay hundreds of Euros to not watch their favorite driver. What part of "spectator sport" do the FIA not understand? Every effort should be made to keep all cars on the road to the end. And why are they increasing the power stage points to make the last day more important, then excluding cars from the last day?

There was service. What wasn't is superally. Monte Carlo organizers have been always pushing against superally as such rule goes directly against the old spirit of rallying where the first and foremost important thing is to reach the finish (that moment when to retire mens to actually retire). I do agree with them and I enjoyed those several years with no superally at all. I traveled thousands of kilometers, stood there outside in cold but I have never thought that having a superally would make the rally better. Even though once we saw only 28 cars passing Turini on Midnight. Maybe the absence of superally added the special value to the moment - it made passing this legendary place something special. In the end it gave a moment of fame to otherwise invisible crews who normally can't do a shit against ever and ever restarting WRC cars.

The rally should end at the end of the power stage, not at control after that. I know a century ago rallying was about long drives on public roads with occasional special stages, and there is a lot of enthusiast rallying like that now, but come on this is the WRC. Again, people do not travel hundreds of miles and pay hundreds of Euros to have the result decided on a public road away from the spectators/coverage. If Tanak had not reached control today, the FIA would be looking like idiots.

Rally ends at the finish ramp just like it has done for more than one hundred years and there's nothing wrong about that.

[dimviii]

[stefanvv]

That's what they call it "finish in style".