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27th July 2022, 18:59 #7
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Skeptical about a 6-abroad rally calendar in terms of cost, all the more with some places not that good in terms of marketing (+ when we see the Finnish article, sounds to be 6 + Cyprus as there are talking about Middle-East and 2 American events). But if the logistics mutualisation between events is well done, why not but it would be even more than the most on Loeb’s era with a 16-event calendar (the most was 5 + Turkey or 5 + Cyprus). Already trying to get back to 4 or 5 would have sounded more cautious to me.
With such a type of calendar, a 7-round WRC-2 program could be complicated to create for some drivers.
Cyprus is a non-sense to me with a Greek rally already there + a Middle-East one.
And no rally in neither Spain nor Portugal is even more a non-sense to me. And all the more with adding Latvia whereas Estonia and Finland are already there.
Last point is that with what is evoked, the tarmac/gravel is even more ruined.
For me, we should keep absolutely as the core basis (3 tarmac, 1 fast gravel, 2 slow gravel)
Monte Carlo, Safari, Finland, Greece, Catalunya, Japan.
Then add:
- 2 tarmac rallies among Barum, Ypres, Croatia, a German one and an Italian one (Roma or San Remo).
- 1 snow rally (most logical is Sweden at the moment but why not try something else considering some of the issues of the last years)
- 1 fast gravel, most logical being Estonia (and else Latvia or Poland)
- 1 slow gravel in Oceania (NZ logically)
- 1 gravel in America (Mexico?)
- 1 gravel rally in Europe, either a UK one Wales-type or Portugal (not really convinced by Sardegna organization)
- a last one whatever it is.
- Likes: AndyRAC (27th July 2022)
Really nice to see Oliver setting those times today even with his road position and he looks to be nicely in control as well not taking any risks. He has said he's not here for a win so the rest of...
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