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Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

That's the experience and the rest of Britain.
Can only say about Finnish, Swedish, French Italian from the coverage adn second hand !!
Finnish surfaces are a little smoother than SCottish and less muddier than Welsh and most British. Scottish forest tracks have a lot of hard rock/gravel and can be quite large with smaller infill. So it can get VERY rough.
Finnish looks more smaller rocks and 'dustier'.

The deserts of UAE are real killers. A true test of keeping your car in control in some of the most slippery (and most of the times deep!!) terrain in the world. A shame they never have WRC here. It would be an ideal place, with lots of sand, lots of money and lots of fans

Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

Skill for sure comes into it.
A lesson I learned quite early on with the Escort was I didn't have the outright skill and speed to be in the top 10 as a driver - lack of experience, I made this call when I was 17 ( shoudl have waited longer )
BUT moeny also has a large part and a lot of drivers switch to nav as they can't fund their own car. THEN they find they are bloody good navs and stick with it as "career".
Many do both at clubman level.

Atleast you got to rally
Just as a side note, how much are WRC Navs paid considering how much the driver is paid?

Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

What -- there is another form of motorsport ? where ??

Other forms of 'wannabe' motorsport sure. But nothing just like or close to rally