Quote Originally Posted by 240RS View Post
Strategies appear to form based on Saturday placings more than anything.
It's useless trying to have a strategy for anything other than Saturday points under the current system.

You can ask a team #2 or #3 to drop back & let the team #1 lead on Saturday night for individual championship placings and that will work if the gaps are right. Toyota could have done that in Poland if Evans had been 2nd with a manageable gap to 3rd on Saturday.

Sunday only has 4 stages (usually) and the last one is the power stage with additional points. How do you apply a Sunday strategy? You can ask a driver to throw away his power stage points to let a team leader win Leg3 but when is there ever a workable gap to the next car on Sunday times after only 3 stages before the power stage?

Overall positions at the end of a rally are irrelevant for WRC points so there's no point in applying team orders for any crew to finish 1st at the end of the event.