We preach rally safety a lot here on World Rally Blog, and we will continue to do so as long as people keep doing silly things. However, at times, there's being safe, and then there's going a bit too overboard. I'm afraid that we saw this today on the Chirk Castle spectator stage on Wales Rally GB. In defense of the MSA, the tragic events on the 2014 Jim Clark Rally are still fairly fresh in the memory. With that in mind, I hesitated to write this piece, and I don't want to be too harsh on the organizers. However, I couldn't help but feel that from the TV camera angles on the broadcast, it looked like the spectator areas were excessively far away from the stage. In addition, several...
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