>>According to the show, it was a blind rally. This probably contributed.
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>That IS a rally. Recce and notes are not rally.
Hey Steve, while I think at the level of 98% of the competitors in North America notes and recce are only important to satisfy their desire for imitate their heros they see on TV (or else how do they drive so pitifully slowly)(and drive down wrong roads for miles!!), Rally until only very very recently, maybe the last 7-9 years has encompassed a huge variety of formats from blind rally to Safari-on-the-clock-the-whole-time to regs-and-route-book-sent-out-a-month-ahead-of-time-and-you-can-and-do-practice-each-stage-10-times.
So while I personally think blind rally shows who knows how to drive best, and seems you do too, I think you might be a bit narrow there.
I mean if the Italians and French want to do like they used to no skin off my nose.
Thankfully someplaces still think driving skills are developed when the driver has to look and make judgements about gassing and braking, rather than listen to some dictation from a tape recorder operator.
And they seem to still produce more world class drivers than the rest of the world put together.
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