WRC Rally Acropolis Greece 2021

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I prefer to see flat out action that see drivers swerving to avoid stones and having stupid retirements...

times change old man, the option of the home couch is always there, crying is pathetic....

we did not have a proper rally in 9 years. Its like being stranded in the desert and someone offers you water and you whine like a little girl because its tap water instead of bottled Perrier.

get with the times or stay away... old people are a waste of space... first you (old people in general) cried because the rallies were not 146 days long... then you cried because the cars did not sound like washing machines with nails in them... then you cried because we did not have 3 finishers in 287 entires... then you cried because stages did not cover the whole country... if you do not like it do not support it,

nobody is forcing you to see something you do not like... there is always tennis for you if the tears do not let you enjoy the sport.

Thank you for presenting your argument.
Let me complete mine. As you know, this Acropolis is done by a totally different organizing body than all previous ones, appointed by the government. This new organizer on specific stages (Pavliani, Pirgos, Tarzan) has decided to follow your "flat road" philosophy by putting a road-roller and making them completely flat. This is done for the first time. At least I have never seen it since 1986 that I am watching, nor in the three Acropolis I have participated. On other stages until now they have not done it (Ag. Theodori, Loutraki, Eleftherohori). As I just came back from recce on the first two of them, I can tell that these are fixed the old way without being "rolled", so they will be as they were.
Personally, I disagree with this new organizer and I prefer Acropolis to remain as it was, so I do not want road-rollers. Not only because this is its traditional character, but because if we change it to "just another flat rally", I am afraid we will lose it permanently. You are not the only Greek that has this "flat road" philosophy, my co-driver has the same as you and we have had this argument lots of times. Time will tell which of these two opinions is more effective for the survival of the rally.

P.S.1 The truly extraordinary spectacle is on fast bad sections (5th and 6th gear). The fast sections on "hell roads" like the downhill of Agia Sotira, last part of Vari, EIeftherohori after the 2nd lake and several others offer spectacle "out of this world" that you cannot see anywhere else. You can see the same level of "extra-terrestrial" things as you can see in Finland or Poland, and I dare say even higher.

P.S.2 I do not know about old people, I am not yet. But I do know that young ones are absent from Greek rallying, except of two or three with rich dads that used to be rally drivers. Young Greeks prefer dragster, drifting and "facebooking". So, if old people are considered a "waste of space", as you say, and they leave to "open up space", I am afraid that Greek rallying will collapse to non-existence in one single day. Just because young Greeks prefer much safer activities these days than they used to. So, I suggest you leave old ones in their space.