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Old 11-23-2011, 07:43 PM   #28
exsmoker

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What a bunch of wowsers and sanctimonious do gooders you people are.
One of the attractions of attending and watching the WRC rounds is the ability to get right up close to the action.
Herding spectators like sheep into pens is simply not the name of the game and likely does more to drive people away than anything else.
In fact, in nearly 40 years involvement in the sport, by far the majority of incidents I've seen involving spectators being hit by rally cars have ocurred in organised areas or areas where there are large numbers of people gathered together.
Indeed I cannot recall such an incident involving a lone spectator at all.
The freedom to move about and react quickly is the adventurous spectators security blanket. Long may it be so!
I don't actually see any sanctimony here at all. I agree totally that spectator pens are a bad thing, but this does not mean that everyone is going to behave sensibly when allowed to roam freely, nor that those who take advantage of the ability to do so are somehow immune from criticism if they choose to stand in an unsafe place. By your reckoning, it would be sanctimonious to criticise the behaviour of spectators on the Sintra stages in Portugal in the 1980s.
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