Quote Originally Posted by Jakem View Post
Stupidest comment... comparing unblowed 20cm of snow and gravel rallies.
6 km less plowed road with 5-10 cms... with these increases we will soon end up to 2 meters of snow and car tunneling trough.

On gravel rallies 50 km of cleaning 1-2 cm gravel is standard. Get some perspective.

Yes drivers complain almost all the time. Haven't heard anyone blaming organizers on gravel rallies for it though, just FIA for starting order.



Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
In Sweden 2018 the issue was that the last road of the stage was left unplowed. In generally roads are plowed for rallying. If they are not, the first cars have to do it and it's not competitionally interesting. Remember this stage in Monte 2018? Breen was first on the road and lost 3:25. And Andrea Nucita on an RGT car was fourth. https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...2018/?s=154131 Hardly comparable to sweeping in gravel rallies.
Roads are almost never not plowed for rallying 1-2 hours before the stage start and in that period it can snow a lot. Gravel doesn't fall down from the sky unexpectedly....

In Monte 2018 it was also turning warm so for later cars the snow both got cleaned and melted (same in Monza SS11).

Imo it's anything but competitionally uniteresting, it's rallying, conditions change. As long as it's "reasonably" safe it is how it should be. Sometimes you gain on it, sometimes you loose. (in Sweden when it is warm earlier drivers can gain before the ice breaks up for example)