Thread: 2024 WRC News & Rumours
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28th December 2023, 13:04 #11
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(I quoted) Ending the rally on Saturday and having a separate Sunday Sprint causes multiple events, administration issues and questionable participation question for lower classes. If they do a third, "full length" rally; they are not doing a WRC rally. There will therefore remain only one rally for the foreseeable future.
A Power Sunday within existing start-to-finish points system obviously didn't appeal to them. I can only imagine because this doesn't reset the risk and incentives across the board - crews and manufacturers. Only a fresh clean start from 0 is best for answering the root problem statement: how to get all entertainment class cars entertaining on a Sunday. It eliminates the possibility of team orders or drivers deciding on the rally or the sprint. If you retain 25 for the win and a token for the sprint, 5 points say? You might as well do nothing, just not radical enough, it is not an incentive.
What they delivered is the only way to reset to 0 and remain in the one rally.
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