More paying VIP audience, less beer drinking rally-fans. If rally ends saturday people can stay and have party in host city and go home in sunday, now when rally finish is sunday, you have to go work next morning.
Why all "village" events are held in saturday if sunday is as good ?
For television sunday is better but for live audience not.
The original quote suggested a rally to be run from tuesday to friday. No saturday at all. Are you sure those paying VIP customers don't go to work on weekdays?
Hyundai drivers' went radical trying everything to gain some grip and speed...
https://www.motorsport.com/wrc/news/wrc-sweden-what-happened-to-the-hyundais/10797782/
But it seems more and more that they just want to get as much as money and don't offer nothing or at least minimal to fans.
I mean in Monte there was some footage from Solberg, when he spun on...
It's barely "live coverage" these days.
I think what is happening is that they are delaying the start of the broadcast so that they can gather some footage before. That way, when there is nothing...
Hyundai drivers' went radical trying everything to gain some grip and speed... https://www.motorsport.com/wrc/news/wrc-sweden-what-happened-to-the-hyundais/10797782/
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