David Evans was not impressed with the World Rally Championship's visit to Bulgaria. He explains why it isn't deserving of an event at this level

Bulgaria, hmmm, where to start? Let's dive straight in: I didn't enjoy it and didn't think it worthy of a round of the World Rally Championship.

I'm still waiting for somebody to come up with a coherent reason as to why we were there in the first place. All I've been told is that it performed reasonably well as a candidate event and, as one member of the sporting establishment put it, "they paid their money for the candidate round, didn't they?"

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