2024 WRC News & Rumours

[WRCStan]

I don't think anyone is actually confused about who the rally winner is.

That's exactly what was said.

Ending the rally on Saturday and having Sunday Super Sprint would have worked as well. Both would have been more straightforward. That's the point.

You're then creating two or three events, a paperwork disaster for everybody involved from permits to insurances etc. You're also shitting on the organiser's event, the start-to-finish rally that still exists for everybody else from WRC2 to funtime driver. How do you enforce everybody to take part on the Sunday if they can't be bothered...

I think there is good reason it hasn't been done like this. Possible in the future but too quick a change now to be fair.

About the coverage, I'm not sure it's going to be as straightforward. On Sunday they may focus on the leg standings as that's what actually gives out points. During the powers stage there are 3 relevant standings: PS itself which gives points, Sunday leg which gives points and Rally Overall which doesn't give points but determines the winner. Afterwards a fourth classification is relevant for the biggest points reward: Saturday standings but only the cars that finished the rally. I tried to imagine Becsy and Porter trying to make heads and tails of everything, I'm eagerly awaiting to hear it live

Fair point, on screen graphics will have to be clear, and commentary will have to be mentally switched on. So I wouldn't be too surprised if they didn't focus on Sunday scores much. It could just be 5-10 seconds per graphic at the end of each stage. 'Here are the stage results', 'Here are the leg standings', 'Here are the rally standings'.

Else, by the time they get to cameras in WRC2 cars it will be an absolute fkinc mess.

It's easier than trying to understand that a Rally2 car is winning the class but is not nominated for WRC2 but is 8th overall so will score WRC points.