SupeRally here to stay
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SupeRally here to stay
I gotta say, as stupid as SupeRally seems, it seems even stupider to introduce it mid season. If any driver wins all three days of one rally (which looks like Japan will be the first one to use SupeRally), then he has as many points as Sebastian Loeb got in his 3 wins. Or will they retroactively award points?
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http://www.worldrallynews.com/artman...icle_322.shtml
http://www.worldrallynews.com/artman...icle_317.shtml
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http://www.worldrallynews.com/artman...icle_322.shtml
The FIA is expected to adopt a form of “superallying,” the system used in the Asia-Pacific and Australian Championships, for this year’s World Rally Championship.
The change would be one of the most dramatic in the championship’s 30-year history. It would allow crews who had retired to restart subsequent legs of a rally and could involve awarding points for each leg, not simply for the overall result. In Australia, where the concept was originally developed, full points are awarded after each day of a two-day rally, the overall winner being the driver with the most points rather than the lowest time penalties.
A similar arrangement has been voted through for the 2005 World Championship, but has been greeted with some hostility, particularly by drivers and co-drivers. Introducing it in mid-season is unlikely to end the controversy, but might defuse it if it was a limited experiment, akin to trying the mid-rally 1000 Pistes recce in New Zealand in April. It is not known what form of “superallying” is under consideration. An announcement is said to be imminent.
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The change would be one of the most dramatic in the championship’s 30-year history. It would allow crews who had retired to restart subsequent legs of a rally and could involve awarding points for each leg, not simply for the overall result. In Australia, where the concept was originally developed, full points are awarded after each day of a two-day rally, the overall winner being the driver with the most points rather than the lowest time penalties.
A similar arrangement has been voted through for the 2005 World Championship, but has been greeted with some hostility, particularly by drivers and co-drivers. Introducing it in mid-season is unlikely to end the controversy, but might defuse it if it was a limited experiment, akin to trying the mid-rally 1000 Pistes recce in New Zealand in April. It is not known what form of “superallying” is under consideration. An announcement is said to be imminent.
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The innovative but controversial “superally” system will get a trial run on a World Championship rally this year, on the 11th round, the Rally of Japan.
The Hokkaido-based event is also a round of the Asia-Pacific Championship, which already applies the “superally” concept. Works teams and drivers will therefore get a chance to assess the implications of the alternative system on the second and third legs of their own rally, which will form the two days of the Asia-Pacific contest. The World Championship rally will run under World Championship rules.
The Australian-inspired “superally” system awards points after each leg and allows crews to resume after retiring. The Asia-Pacific system gives fewer points per day than in Australia - or than the proposed scale for the 2005 World Championship.
Asia-Pacific crews alone will be allowed to contest the two-day Asia-Pacific round. However, they can pay the full entry fee and tackle the World Championship rally if they wish. Entries will open on June 14, while ticket details for spectators will be published on June 20.
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The Hokkaido-based event is also a round of the Asia-Pacific Championship, which already applies the “superally” concept. Works teams and drivers will therefore get a chance to assess the implications of the alternative system on the second and third legs of their own rally, which will form the two days of the Asia-Pacific contest. The World Championship rally will run under World Championship rules.
The Australian-inspired “superally” system awards points after each leg and allows crews to resume after retiring. The Asia-Pacific system gives fewer points per day than in Australia - or than the proposed scale for the 2005 World Championship.
Asia-Pacific crews alone will be allowed to contest the two-day Asia-Pacific round. However, they can pay the full entry fee and tackle the World Championship rally if they wish. Entries will open on June 14, while ticket details for spectators will be published on June 20.
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update: SupeRally will be used in this weeks Acropolis Rally. Catching many teams unprepared...
The twist, cars that are restarted cannot earn points, but allows retired cars to come back on subsequent days.
http://www.autosport.com/newsitem.asp?id=27677&s=8
The twist, cars that are restarted cannot earn points, but allows retired cars to come back on subsequent days.
http://www.autosport.com/newsitem.asp?id=27677&s=8
WRC gets radical mid-season regulation shake-up
Mechanics can look forward to even more work than usual in Greece
With just two days before the start of the Acropolis Rally, the sport's governing body, the FIA, has confirmed that cars which have retired on one day of the event can now restart the event on a subsequent day – although they will not be eligible to score points.
The so-called 'superally' concept allows any car that retires from a WRC event to restart the event at a later stage. This will be the case from this weekend's Acropolis following a fax vote of the World Rally Championship Commission and the World Motor Sport Council. FIA president Max Mosley met with WRC manufacturers in Paris last week to discuss the subject.
The SupeRally system, already used in the Australian and Asia-Pacific championships, rewards points for the top finishers on each leg of a rally, rather than the overall finishers at the end of an event. The FIA is keen to introduce the concept to the WRC to help expand exposure for manufacturers, who otherwise would have been forced to pack up and go home if they retired early.
It is anticipated that the full-blown superally system will be implemented in next year's WRC.
Mechanics can look forward to even more work than usual in Greece
With just two days before the start of the Acropolis Rally, the sport's governing body, the FIA, has confirmed that cars which have retired on one day of the event can now restart the event on a subsequent day – although they will not be eligible to score points.
The so-called 'superally' concept allows any car that retires from a WRC event to restart the event at a later stage. This will be the case from this weekend's Acropolis following a fax vote of the World Rally Championship Commission and the World Motor Sport Council. FIA president Max Mosley met with WRC manufacturers in Paris last week to discuss the subject.
The SupeRally system, already used in the Australian and Asia-Pacific championships, rewards points for the top finishers on each leg of a rally, rather than the overall finishers at the end of an event. The FIA is keen to introduce the concept to the WRC to help expand exposure for manufacturers, who otherwise would have been forced to pack up and go home if they retired early.
It is anticipated that the full-blown superally system will be implemented in next year's WRC.
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