https://www.iol.co.za/motoring/motor...frica-14073358
This is a very good development, and Tunisia does have a point, it is a lot of money to support the logistics and the security of the race.
I also wish they would go back to the full stage of racing, not drive a couple of hundred miles on the liaison parts of the stage, and then have the racing stage, this was one of the hallmarks of the race back in the 1980s, long hard stages, with teams at times arriving mere hours or minutes before the start of the next stage.
There was also a time where the support teams would have to run the same stages, and not just drive a support route to the next bivouac.
Ah, one can wish