[WRC] News & Rumours 2018

[KiwiWRCfan]

Rallies today seem to come more and more down to the starting order and in some events being the championship leader is a way too big of a disadvantage.
I myself give a big thumbs up to a qualification stage.

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and in some events road surface always give the championship leader a big big advantage on day 1. In some events including Sweden weather conditions determine if first on road on any day is an advantage or disadvantage. It balances itself out over a year. Titles are won by beating your closest rivals regularly throughout season
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I myself believe the current road order regulations are working very well across entire season. The regulations are about season long fairness.
Personally I think a return to qualifying would be a backward step benefiting a few of the strongest drivers and curtail the development of new drivers. The current depth of drivers is partially due to success of the current road order regulations. If road order regulations are to be reviewed I would hope it would be with a view to (a) what is best over entire season and (b) do they support growing depth of talent.