Quote Originally Posted by WRCStan View Post
Many people didn't read properly, jumped to conclusions and spread false information. Like people deciding in their own heads this is Dave Richard's fault lol. I burnt my toast this morning, Dodgy Dave struck again grrr!
He was involved, no need for mocking. This change was discussed in Baku and then signed off by the task force (Richards and Reid). (https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/wrcs-...unday-driving/)

There are multiple potential other solutions to Sunday cruising and they chose one of the stupidest ones. There are issues with this solution besides "hurr durr people don't read":
a. the rally "winner" can go home with fewer points the someone finishing lower down. Even if by chance it doesn't happen it's still a stupid rule if it allows this in my opinion.
b. he final rally classification does not directly award points at all. Instead points are given by: an intermediate classification, a leg classification and a stage classification.

Who asked for this? I know there was Jonne Haltunen's interview where he suggested that the rally was over on Saturday and then Sunday are just two passes of the PS with points give for the total time and drivers suggested giving points for Sunday, or points for stage wins. Any of those suggestions would have been more straightforward and would have achieved the same goal. Instead perhaps this was a classic case of "not invented here" so they had to go out of their way to come up with something else. Complex rules are prone to having issues either by being exploited or by producing unintended consequences, while simple rules tend to be more robust. It's frustrating that while they did do something and personally I think will achieve the goal of reducing Sunday cruising, they did it in such a stupid way, like it was the result of a night of drinking in some bar in Baku.