Distance versus time: The WRC's endurance debate
As FIA president Jean Todt weighs up whether to reshape the World Rally Championship into an endurance-based sport, AUTOSPORT's David Evans assesses whether the five-day Monte Carlo rally was a successful experiment
"Is this day two or day three?"
A colleague asked a question that kind of summed up last week's Monte Carlo Rally. I love the Monte, but it did go on a bit.
I've been a strong advocate of longer-distance rallies in a nostalgic-but-probably-slightly-naïve way. Not so sure now. After a 2011 season of nano-second finishes and rallies decided by two tenths here and there, last week's WRC opener became a bit of a procession. In fact, it became a terrible procession.
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