Quote Originally Posted by Backa View Post
It's not that hard for new fan watching on rally.tv to realize if midway through the rally, gaps between drivers became safe enough to not push. Even commentary and post-stage interviews don't hide it.

And it's not like only viewiership of new fans is affected. Not all old fans are so hardcore to keep watching sunday, if they think results are pretty much already decided and expect sunday stages to be uneventful cruise.

New point system is improving that issue quite well. It created rally winner points issue but it's not that hard to make extra rule to solve that problem.
They might realize it, for sure not all of them. And those who realize might, probably, not complain nor think it's a problem that needs a solution, because it's normal and natural.
The new point system is tackling a small problem while creating a big problem. I have seen a couple of videos popping up on YouTube along the lines of "the new WRC point system is stupid", while I've never seen anybody convinced that Sunday cruising is a huge problem that needs a solution/revolution of the point system.
I've always been for a Power Sunday instead of Power Stage, like others in this forum, which I think is sensible.