[WRC] Rallye Monte Carlo 2021

[Mirek]

Its friday noon and there's only 111km of stages left.

Pretty pathetic for a world class rally.

Better to have no rally at all? It's Covid times you know...

[AnttiL]

Better to have no rally at all? It's Covid times you know...

But only one 20 km stage was cancelled because of COVID. Saturday is short because they take the long liaison to Monaco (and because Thursday has also plenty of stage kilometres)

[denkimi]

Better to have no rally at all? It's Covid times you know...

They had those stupid itinerarys before covid times. Streching into 5 days what could be done in 3.

What's even the point of tomorrow? 3 stages, only 50 km's, starting at 5 in the morning to end before noon? Ridiculous.

[mknight]

No, only interrupted

Times are coming now.

Some really weird times getting assigned to those who started the stage and didn't finish at speed. Most notably Camilli's time is strange he was 4th Rally2 in first split and gets 2nd time at the end?

EDIT: It's time of first pass + 20, which is what Mikkelsen dropped.

[AnttiL]

They had those stupid itinerarys before covid times. Streching into 5 days what could be done in 3.

What's even the point of tomorrow? 3 stages, only 50 km's, starting at 5 in the morning to end before noon? Ridiculous.

To be in Monaco before 6PM

[Tom K]

No, only interrupted

Times are coming now.

Quite interesting how Camilli, Gryazin and Solberg got a uniqe time being red-flagged.
Moreover look at splits. For example Ciamin -> + 7 minutes on fifth split and + 1.34 in the finish.

Edit: From wrc.com WRC 3 review:

The day-ending Chalancon - Gumiane stage was red-flagged by event organisers following WRC driver Pierre Louis Loubet’s crash and all WRC3 crews were handed notional times.

[Mirek]

But only one 20 km stage was cancelled because of COVID. Saturday is short because they take the long liaison to Monaco (and because Thursday has also plenty of stage kilometres)

The original itinerary was created also in Covid time. It was here already during previous edition. None of us knows what kind of problems they had to solve during the year, what kind of conditions all officials, sponsors, promoter, etc. had, but we can be sure that organizing 2021 edition was definitely harder than 2020 already from the beginning.

[dupanton]

It was cancelled. Notional times for all cars behind, they passed as liaison.
Apparently it wasn't too hard to pass, so stage could have maybe run..

[AnttiL]

The original itinerary was created also in Covid time. It was here already during previous edition. None of us knows what kind of problems they had to solve during the year, what kind of conditions all officials, sponsors, promoter, etc. had, but we can be sure that organizing 2021 edition was definitely harder than 2020 already from the beginning.

But surely no 6-6 curfew in the summer when the original itinerary was created.

[dupanton]

They don’t follow the curfew. Impossible for the teams to stay in between these hours. They made it less late in the evening, but like today almost no cars in parc ferme at this time. And in the morning it’s even worst, service crews leave at 3 am or something.