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9th February 2021, 13:10 #9
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This and that won't get better with longer and more packed rally days. In fact the opposite would result from that. Common people won't spend more than one hour a day with WRC no matter how many stages that day are run (likely even less).
For me the format of the event isn't a thing worth vasting energy at this moment.
The true issue is how to make the sport attractive as a whole. Without no direct head to head competition it is difficult to sell the live footage (the comparison with Dakar isn't perfect too because Dakars doesn't run every two or three weeks). With driving in the wild nature it's difficult to sell the sport to ever more environment-safe thinking of the public. The cars are generally less and and less viewed as something sporty, for most of the general public they become just a mean of transport and nothing more. The nature of rallying makes it one of the hardest motorsports to go hybrid or electric. That is a major obstacle for attracting manufacturers but also a major political issue. Really there are much bigger problems than too few stages per day...Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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Seems a brakepipe from the handbrake broke and leaked down on the exaust. Just 15min service in the morning, maybe he drives without handbrake the first 4 stages. Sent fra min SM-S901B via...
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