WRC Croatia Rally 2021

[pantealex]

My biggest worry is that spectating was forbidden in Croatia and they didn´t respect it.

Rules are rules and those should be followed.

Locals didn´t have any respect towards WRC.

All other countries have played by rules.

[Rallyper]

My biggest worry is that spectating was forbidden in Croatia and they didn´t respect it.

Rules are rules and those should be followed.

Locals didn´t have any respect towards WRC.

All other countries have played by rules.

No. TommekeB told us that organizer said he should only say he´ll have a pick-nick. So I guess all spectators was out on picknics...

[Rallyper]

Finally some time to write down my own (perhaps too long) resume from the Croatia Rally.

All started with a message to the organizer, after hearing rumors that spectators weren't allowed. They answered in a funny way, saying that if I went, I had to say I came for the picnic. Didn't need more of an invitation to visit this rally. By the time the rally happened the message was quite widespread.

Here we go.

[Tom K]

My biggest worry is that spectating was forbidden in Croatia and they didn´t respect it.

Rules are rules and those should be followed.

Locals didn´t have any respect towards WRC.

All other countries have played by rules.

Which countries? In Turkey (no spectators) they needed to stop the stage for a while due to spectators in dangerous place. In Sardinia - no comment - less spectators than normally but still they were present and areas for them were prepared. In Monza you had fans on mountains stages. During Monte Carlo also but in very low numbers. In ERC non-spectators rally "were" Portugal and Islas Canarias. Do you want to see pictures from those rallies?

[Steve Boyd]

Well, I was talking only about spectators on Rally Croatia and its Covid consequences, lack of them, to be precise. That's a fact. And I see no reason why would other events be any different. Maybe they wily maybe they won't. But Croatia's example says it is possible to do it.

You don't have the data to come to that conclusion. The only way you could draw any conclusion about the safety of the rally in Croatia would be to have details of the Covid case numbers in the people who went to the rally before the event and following the event and to compare them statistically with what was happening in the general population over the same period.

You have no way of knowing whether case numbers are building in the rally spectators after the event but that their increase is being masked by a fall in caes in the general population.

[Pršljen]

You don't have the data to come to that conclusion. The only way you could draw any conclusion about the safety of the rally in Croatia would be to have details of the Covid case numbers in the people who went to the rally before the event and following the event and to compare them statistically with what was happening in the general population over the same period.

You have no way of knowing whether case numbers are building in the rally spectators after the event but that their increase is being masked by a fall in caes in the general population.

More importlantly do YOU have a data to prove otherwise? Here we have people complaining that fans didn't respect rules and that should've wear masks etc. And in reality, we have a huge drop in cases in Croatia for the whole period afterwards, all three counties, where rally was held, included.

You're asking for a analysis and I'm asking for a common sense. C'mon, can't you just admit that it'obviously possible to have a rally with spectators with no apparent Covid consequences...

[bomber21]

This is a conversion you both have to do via private messages, WE DO NOT CARE.

[Pršljen]

This is a conversion you both have to do via private messages, WE DO NOT CARE.

And I do not care if you care or not. This is very important topic for current WRC and the future of the season.

[bomber21]

Rally happened, it was great, no problems occured, everyone is happy, let’s go on!
Do not overthink.

[AnttiL]

It's a bit like "I drove 1000 km without seat belts and nothing happened, no one needs seat belts anymore"