I listened for 2 seconds before posting.

 

I can personally attest to this as well. At least one stage was cancelled in Germany when I was there in '05 and they were VERY close to closing a stage I was at in Finland in '09 but the marshalls got it under control and the stage was run. I think they did end up cancelling the final stage on Day 3 in Finland, but I was luckily at the second to last stage.

There's certainly people still hanging out in the wrong places (the outside of turns/hairpins), but you don't see the throngs of people standing in idiotic places as they did in the past.

-Brian