Quote Originally Posted by AndyRAC View Post
Now, even the BRC is somewhere between a BTRDA & ANCRO..... Do the majority of competitors just want a one day 45 mile event for their sport? It seems that way.
I’d even go as far to say the BRC is now just at clubman 70km level. Only Yorkshire is longer, and not by much in the grand scheme of things.

I’ve been thinking lately that in order to try and regain some of the lost prestige to the championship the BRC should reduce the number of rounds but keeping more or less the same stage km. So three gravel rounds at ~100km each and two tarmac at ~175km each. If we can have a longer Rally Yorkshire running alongside the clubman Trackrod Forest Stages why can’t that be done with just a little bit extra for the ‘International’ event, if you can call it that?

Some cost saving might be had by the fact that your fixed costs for turning up to a rally are reduced from 7 to 5 times a year but your cumulative stage mileage stays the same.

And to get a bit of perspective the other day I had a trawl through ewrc-results to figure out what gravel rallies, in Europe (comparing BRC to America or New Zealand for example doesn’t make sense to me), outside of the ERC and running to International status (if my understanding of what makes a rally an ‘international’ is correct), in 2021 & so far in 2022 are actually running significantly more stage km than in the BRC;

•Arctic Rally is by far the longest loose surface rally at something like 223km
•Rally Saaremaa last October ran about 132km (not entirely sure it counts as international…. but I think it does)
•Not much else runs over 100km - mostly rallies in Cyprus
•A fair amount of countries are still putting on 70-100km gravel rallies, but none really seems to be doing the same sort of stage km as Azores, Rajd Polski and Rally Liepāja (Serras de Fafe doesn’t count as the Portuguese championship only counted for the first ~100km)