This utter tripe from Abiteboul sounds just as bad as Neuville’s ideas:

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/abite...d-modernizing/

This idea that ‘fan engagement’ automatically adds some value to the sport is nonsense. Lets have fans tweeting with a hashtag where there favourite driver can cut - no bloody thank you Cyril.

I even think the Power Stage is pointless as it creates this whole problem around Sundays being too boring. I can remember watching early-2000s Rally GBs where there’d still be a good 100+km to go on Sunday and no one complained that there wasn’t some excitement building up to that last stage. The Power Stage just feels too standardised and clinical, it’s a bit like DRS in F1 where creating more overtakes is meant to cure all ills but actually results in less excitement when everything becomes the same each round.