Quote Originally Posted by dimviii View Post
Hayden Paddon‏*@HaydenPaddon
Final run through the pacenotes on the plane to Finland Super excited and ready for the best rally of the year @RallyFinland #paddonspack

So this is even before start of the recce and they are watching vids of stages and doing pacenotes.
Then it's 2? runs in recce with video review each evening.
During the rally they then watch the stages for next day each evening, at one point last year I even saw some drivers watching on mobile before the stage.
Also big sections of the stages are run each year.

Given that each day there are about 40-50 unique stage kilometers it's totally possible to remember just about every corner, or at minimum the tricky spots where you really should not go off. (Often also in notes (don't go wide, don't cut....)

This is nothing new, I just put it here since the topic comes up again and again.
Ref.
- Ogier's off in Monte on Saturday saying he knew he could go off there (and people not believing)
- Breen's stage time in Corsica on the short stage without intercom (he lost only a few s)
- multiple "safe" offs by numerous drivers in Poland