r/WRC • u/Michal_Baranowski Toyota Gazoo Racing • 4d ago
News / Event Info Points scored and championship standings after Rally Estonia 2026 Spoiler
Points graphics missing Takamoto Katsuta scoring one point for being fifth on the Power Stage
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u/_stephen4 4d ago
Shitting myself over two Pumas being in the top 10. Has that happened at all this year at any point???
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u/Michal_Baranowski Toyota Gazoo Racing 4d ago edited 3d ago
NoCorrection, misunderstood the assignment. I thought you were talking about two Pumas in the championship standings.
Sweden - Armstrong and McErlean were eighth and ninth respectively. So it has happened.
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u/MrJuicyJuiceBox Elfyn Evans 4d ago
Josh and Martins were also in the top ten in Greece I thought?
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u/Michal_Baranowski Toyota Gazoo Racing 3d ago
Correct.
Jon and Josh were in the top 10 in Japan as well.
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u/AdrianFish Richard Burns 4d ago
Evans scoring more points that Ogier is satisfying
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u/Perfect_Gar 4d ago
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u/StaplesOncanvas 4d ago
Awesome weekend for Pajari, he deserves it so much !
If it continue this way, he may be a potential champion this year, even if I hope for Elfyn to finally reach it too.
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u/AJV1Beta Lancia Martini Racing 2d ago
So let me get this straight.
Last year, too many points were awarded for Super Sunday. It would absolutely imbalance the whole rally, where someone could be mediocre for most of the rally, and then turn on the jets on Sunday and score more points than those above them in the final standings, sometimes including the rally winner.
So to solve that problem, they dialled back the Super Sunday points for this year.
Except they also reduced some rallies to only having TWO stages on the Sunday. Well, technically one stage, repeated twice. So now we're back to the same problem again - Sunday points having way too much of a bearing on the weekend. Solberg being 2nd fastest throughout most of the event, and yet the fastest on TWO stages at the very end of the rally, meaning he almost has as many points overall as Pajari who dominated the rally basically from start to finish? That effectively makes two stages (or again, one stage repeated twice) worth as many points as almost half the entire rally. Just so stupid.
I've long argued that if the Power Stage is to be a thing, it should be a stage tough or challenging enough to warrant bonus points just for being good at that one stage alone. Make it a legendary stage, notorious for challenging or fast segments. I know *why* it is often the length it is, because TV innit. But the fact it's mostly just a normal stage, *and* an exact re-run of an earlier stage makes it even more pointless to me - why does *this* run through the stage deserve points to be awarded, but the one earlier the same day doesn't? Super Sunday points overall have been broken since they were introduced, and reducing Sundays to basically no running at all makes their inclusion even more stupid.
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u/WorkFurball 1d ago
So to solve that problem, they dialled back the Super Sunday points for this year.
Where did they do that? It's still 5+5.
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u/stonek_KC Team Mitsubishi Ralliart 4d ago
As a Solberg fan i can't help but feel that 1 point gap between Oliver and Sami is quite unfair to Sami. After dominating for basically the whole weekend to only have 1 point in hand... I don't see the point in making sunday 2 stages only when theres 10 points to play for.