Quote Originally Posted by Steve Boyd View Post
It's useless trying to have a strategy for anything other than Saturday points under the current system.

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.
I probably failed in communicating my thoughts clearly and exhaustively in the initial post.

By now, I would have imagined one or two drivers would have adopted a measured strategy on Friday/Saturday, preserving softs, for example, then going on a full Sunday attack! Targeting, for instance, 10-12 pts on Saturday before going for a full complement on Sunday.

Or a driver with a road disadvantage on the first proper day settling for a limited risk Friday, hoping to pick places from those retiring or dropping down the order through problems, with an eye on a big Saturday push when a better road position allows.

Obviously this may go against their natural instincts, but with the current points system not favouring outright winners it may be only a matter of time before we see someone in the title hunt without a single win.