[WRC] Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2021

[Tauri_J]

Sunday has become a save ryres for powerstage day.
To bad really, take away good fights tha could have been.

5 points is way too muvh for a PS win in 3 classes. That means almost everyone on the list will try to keep staus quo on the rally, to fight for "easy" PS poimts.

Something needs to be done about this!

Points for every stage, been saying this for a while

[Franky]

Points for every stage, been saying this for a while

Points for every stage win, points for longest jumps, biggest air time, for the longest power slide, the coolest livery (car, overalls, helmets) and for the best stage end comments.

It's not a gigantic rally sprint.

[Tauri_J]

I think you got a little carried away with your analogy.

Points for every stage would remove sunday's episodes of granny driving to the store. We would also see drivers pushing more on fridays and saturdays.

[mknight]

Points for every stage would fundamentally change the nature of rallying.

Win from 2km SSS by 0.1s should give same points as win by 30s on 30km stage? Obviously not. So you given different points depending on stage length? Well that's almost the same as using time and much less logical.

How about a situation where a driver gets a big lead early? Should he be "punished" for that and forced to push vs crashed out drivers that have nothing to loose?

What could be done is "support"/"additional" points per day. But those only need to be a small fraction of total points, and then the question is if they have any real effects or if they just confuse point counting.(some local championships have those, can't say I see much effect there)

[AnttiL]

Sunday has become a save ryres for powerstage day.
To bad really, take away good fights tha could have been.

How fast people forget? Just the preious rally in Croatia was a crazy three way fight for the win up to the last corner of the rally! Sometimes it's like this and sometimes like that. But nothing fundamentally wrong in the rules.

[AnttiL]

In addition i would look into killing off Superrally. If You for some reason are out, you are out of the rally.

You would rather have only five WRC's in the rally today? I don't understand this logic.

[AnttiL]

Currently super-rally is actually solving a problem. You can think about removing it when you have 5+ manu teams.

Or service after every stage. Or even mid-stage like in the 80's.

[AnttiL]

Btw, how it's going with your pickems? You had Katsuta, Fourmaux and Greensmith all in Top6?

My 6-7-8 were Fourmaux, Lappi and Suninen However I put Katsuta only 5th

[meh]

Just some thoughts - extra points per stage win, power stage, extra point for Sunday etc are for entertainment for spectators and for extra drama.

Rally is "marathon". Should marathon (42.1km running) have extra medals for "last 10km", "every 1km in last 10km", "best finish" etc point? Probably not. If someone ran away with first 10km, then this is how it is for rest of the marathon.

[EstWRC]

me reading all the proposals here