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Originally Posted by Noah930
I understand the speeding between stages mentality. But I speed, too, and I've never comprehensively crashed a car, let alone enough to cause pretty significant personal bodily injury despite wearing full race gear in a race-prepped car. And my driving skills can't hold a candle to those of a professional racecar driver. There's a difference between driving really fast and racing. I can understand crashing while racing. I don't exactly understand it while driving really fast.
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You really oughta see it with your own eyes Noah
Keep in mind that a rally attracts big crowds, these crowds are also traveling from stage to stage, so it get's busy on the roads...
Rally drivers have to deal with this traffic as well, and more often then not, if they do not cut a few corners in between stages, figuratively speaking, they can't make it on time for the start.
If they are tied and late to get to the start, they are driving for the position, for some, that's even if it's in between stages...
Maybe not all of them, may be not all of the time, maybe not all of the distance..
But some really do gun it..and they gun it in a Race prepped car.
That's something different from your average speeder like you or me, that's a lot of extra power, grip, torque, adrenaline, ...
I'm not saying Kubica was doing something bad or whatever, he could have had bad luck at legal speeds.
I'm just pointing out that it's not realistic to assume that they drive slow in between stages... quite often in between stages they are on the clock as well.