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[Mirek]

Mirek do you know why Vallasska always comes back to the czech championship? Few years ago they had problems with the Organisation every year. Now the stages are compared to other rallys in CR really bad. And it is quite ridiculous that a third of the rally was held on "artificial stages" on the Tatra testing grounds.

There is completely new organization since last year and it's made of active rally crews. Compared to the infamous years it was all a lot smoother in terms of organization but as everyone could see the stages were really bad compared to the old times. I think that the decision to bring Valašská rally back could have been taken too late considering it was held so early in the season. Also frankly after all what happened there is now lack of organizers, especially those being able to hold an event of MČR and not only sprint. The sad reality is that now there are only five high quality events in the championship - Barum, Bohemia, Český Krumlov, Šumava and Hustopeče. Příbram has been very uncertain for several years and the stages of last year's edition weren't up to MČR standards as well. At least compared to last year it seems that the trend started to reverse slowly with very nice sprints of Kopná and Jeseníky back in the calendar.

You really like chicanes a lot in Czech Republic.

I think it is more the case of "the championship management doesn't like high average speeds so they lower them artificially with chicanes while not really improving safety at all".

It's all just for show anyway.

Nobodoy likes them. You hear everyone complaining about them, especially drivers of large cars. Frankly I don't know why there were so many in this rally. The number was just totaly overblown. There are events with nearly no chicanes at all (Bohemia) or very few (Barum for example). Also this year ASN actually alowed higher average speed (130 km/h instead of 120 km/h), while they made the standard chicane tighter (only God knows why). I can't explain it, maybe they were scared of accidents or of the average speed they could not estimate without more experience. I don't know.