There is nothing good about supermassive special stages. They have no meaning and no purpose. They do not add any extra challenge. They also do not posses any sporting and, more importantly, commercial value. They're pointless. And if you think they could be good for that holy 'endurance' factor, nope, that's sufficiently 'covered in the WRC as it is'. I wonder what FIA's president Jean Todt thinks about it, but I am sure he will, at some point, reiterate his desire to bring endurance back to the WRC. How, when and in what way, well, that's not really important, is it. After reading that article on Autosport, and promoter's and rally director's comments, I wonder why did they decide to run...
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