Quote Originally Posted by HKSjbg View Post
Even the regular rally is starting quite late - 4pm!

I wonder if this is in an effort to encourage MSUK to re-think their permit fee pricing structure. There was something on that in Motorsport News a few months ago when they did a big feature on the future of British rallying. I may have been the Rally North Wales clerk of the course who said it if I remember correctly.
Must be a very compact route to be getting 3 loops of two stages in between 4pm and 11pm. Looking at maps it does seem the stages are generally very close to the service can see why they're restricting maximum entries.
Without knowing the stages well my one concern as a competitor would be stage conditions after 3 runs, even the smoothest stages these days tend to have small sections that get rutted / rough.
But don't want to sound negative as a co-driver I would love to be doing it and tackling forest stages in the dark is something I'm yet to experience as I'm sure many haven't.