[WRC] Monza Rally 2020

[TypeR]

damn, Sordo.. Taka missed his first WRC stage win by 0.6s..

[Essaj]

Putting my life savings on Taka's stage win on this stage tomorrow

[EstWRC]

Sordo: "if we can do flat out and safe it would be nice"

lol

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Nice words from Sordo on Evans.

[Mirek]

Rallysprint in Finland means a 3-6 km stage driven twice. I think we're still far from that

Where Pluto lives Rallysprint is a one-day long rally of 60-80 km

[Sulland]

What was Formoes issue on 11?

[PLuto]

What was Formoes issue on 11?

Spun / damaged suspension

[mknight]

What was Formoes issue on 11?

He crashes into the right side just 2 corners after Evans

[SubaruNorway]

Tidemand's 2:10 penalty must be wrong?

[AnttiL]

Now that Robertson won snooker semi-final, I had time to revisit this and do some revisions. Firstly, it now includes both cancelled stage as well as stages with nominal times. That changed little but for accuracy it's important. In addition, final column is added to give proportion of cancelled stage lengths per total rally lengths. 2020 indeed seems to have highest ratio with 8,3%, after 1996 that had 7,1%. On average, 2,3% of stage kilometers are cancelled annually. Bear in mind that pre-1979 years do lack plenty of stage data.

Thanks for the list! 2020 indeed had many canceled stages compared to the very short stage milage. Let's rewind back why they were cancelled

Sweden 1 stage for bad snow conditions
Mexico 1 stage for fire engine putting out Lappi's car
Mexico 3 stages, whole last day because of COVID-19
Monza 1 stage red flagged for Veiby's car in the middle of the road
Monza 1 stage canceled because of bad weather

I would say the whole canceled Sunday in Mexico was quite exceptional, not having them would reduce the canceled kilometres to 85 and the percentage to 5%, which is already closer to normal but still relatively high.

However, 2018 stands out as very low on the numbers, although All Live was already used and the safety systems were similar. I remember it was only one stage in Catalunya canceled because of spectators. It rained heavily and Toyotas had rain tyres and basically lost time because of that.