How Rally Italy got it wrong
When a rally route has so much downtime crews can have a midday snooze, something's not quite right. DAVID EVANS outlines why Rally Italy has plenty of room for improvement
The noise was not one normally associated with the service park. It ranged from the gentle exhaling of breath to a cacophonous crescendo not dissimilar to the audible effect of a cat being strangled.
Snoring.
Sleeping was going on across the service park, in the middle of the afternoon on Saturday. The top of one of the M-Sport trucks had been converted to a dorm containing 28 shut-eyed mechanics.
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