[WRC] Rally Turkey 2020

[AnttiL]

Yep extra point for fastest lap.

Changing your starting position so as not to sweep the road for rival teams drivers could be seen as slowing them...

If sweeping was their main point, Tänak wouldn't have stopped on the stage but instead done the extra sweeping for his team mates. Dust was their main target this time.

[EstWRC]

Who started these tactics hiding himself in forest before power stage and who was Tänak teammates with whom he learned this?

Ogier himself.

So don’t come crying here only about Ott and that comparison with F1 is just stupid.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

You also have to question if Rally 2 is fair and what is it really for. I always thought it was so the fans could see more cars.

And also for drivers to get more experience. But with the top teams/drivers this really isnt the case any more...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Who started these tactics hiding himself in forest before power stage and who was Tänak teammates with whom he learned this?

Ogier himself.

So don’t come crying here only about Ott and that comparison with F1 is just stupid.

Calm down its just a discussion after Makinen's comments.

And Ogier only used this tactic after being disadvantaged by snow-ploughing and sweeping, not when coming back in Rally 2.

[AnttiL]

Calm down its just a discussion after Makinen's comments.

And Ogier only used this tactic after being disadvantaged by snow-ploughing and sweeping, not when coming back in Rally 2.

Go look at Sweden 2019 again

[TypeR]

Calm down its just a discussion after Makinen's comments.

And Ogier only used this tactic after being disadvantaged by snow-ploughing and sweeping, not when coming back in Rally 2.

what about 2019 Sweden and Sardegna?

if M-Sport guys were in a position of possible title win, they would do the same.. it's a no-brainer that one wouldn't just give away points.

[BigWorm]

Re Tanak / Hyundai / WRC tactics.

Can you imagine in F1 if a top team's car broke down early in a race. Then late on it got fixed and came back out and was just driven around to interfere with and slow other teams cars, and then they put new tyres on to steal the point for fastest lap ?

There would be a furore and calls of unsporting behaviour.

Sorry I have to nitpick but if a fastest lap of the race is scored from a driver outside the top 10 it doesn't give that point in F1. But I see what you're getting at.

It's such a grey area this though. People want to see sportsmanlike actions but the drivers/teams will still want to make the best out of their situations as far as regulations allow them to.

[AnttiL]

You also have to question if Rally 2 is fair and what is it really for. I always thought it was so the fans could see more cars.

And also for drivers to get more experience. But with the top teams/drivers this really isnt the case any more...

There's two main reasons

1. Driver power stage points (also in some cases the driver can still get to top 10 although under restart rules
2. Manufacturer points. No matter how low the car is in the overall standings, if it's the second best car of the team, it will get manufacturer points.

Rallying a WRC car is expensive, no one does it just to entertain fans. On some occasions they might use a restart day for testing to a subsequent event, not so much for "driver experience".

[Rallyper]

Sorry I have to nitpick but if a fastest lap of the race is scored from a driver outside the top 10 it doesn't give that point in F1. But I see what you're getting at.

It's such a grey area this though. People want to see sportsmanlike actions but the drivers/teams will still want to make the best out of their situations as far as regulations allow them to.

A bit the same with Pontus driving "slower" than WRC3 guys. He wanted points in WRC2 and acted like he did bcs of that.
It´s all about tactics.

[PLuto]

A bit the same with Pontus driving "slower" than WRC3 guys. He wanted points in WRC2 and acted like he did bcs of that.
It´s all about tactics.

But Pontus is driving "slower" also in times when he should fight with other competitors in WRC2