{"id":208674,"date":"2026-02-04T23:21:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208674"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:21:31","slug":"why-wrc-drivers-thought-rally-saudi-arabia-was-too-extreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208674","title":{"rendered":"Why WRC drivers thought Rally Saudi Arabia was too extreme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Rally Championship drivers feel Rally Saudi Arabia\u2019s unique challenges deserve a place on the calendar, but the event is too extreme for the cars and tyres to host a title decider.Saudi Arabia made its WRC debut at the weekend after signing 10-year deal with the championship to host the final round for at least five years of the deal&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/wrc\/news\/was-rally-saudi-arabia-too-extreme-for-wrc\/10781563\/?utm_source=RSS&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=RSS-ALL&#038;utm_term=News&#038;utm_content=www\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Rally Championship drivers feel Rally Saudi Arabia\u2019s unique challenges deserve a place on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208674-why-wrc-drivers-thought-rally-saudi-arabia-was-too-extreme.jpg",1200,799,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208674-why-wrc-drivers-thought-rally-saudi-arabia-was-too-extreme-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208674-why-wrc-drivers-thought-rally-saudi-arabia-was-too-extreme-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208674-why-wrc-drivers-thought-rally-saudi-arabia-was-too-extreme-768x511.jpg",640,426,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208674-why-wrc-drivers-thought-rally-saudi-arabia-was-too-extreme-1024x682.jpg",640,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208674-why-wrc-drivers-thought-rally-saudi-arabia-was-too-extreme.jpg",1200,799,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208674-why-wrc-drivers-thought-rally-saudi-arabia-was-too-extreme.jpg",1200,799,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208674-why-wrc-drivers-thought-rally-saudi-arabia-was-too-extreme-1024x682.jpg",1024,682,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208674-why-wrc-drivers-thought-rally-saudi-arabia-was-too-extreme-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208674-why-wrc-drivers-thought-rally-saudi-arabia-was-too-extreme-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}