"I wouldn't imagine it was great fun standing in those conditions [in December in Wales], but the atmosphere you have with night rallying probably made it a little bit easier for spectators to be stood out there.
"Yes it was very difficult, but I enjoyed it myself, even though I did lose my light pod on one of the night stages! I really do like night rallying."
"Anything that is a challenge is good," Higgins continued. "We need challenges in rallying. It is no point having it all the same. The WRC has got very samey and when you look at it all the gravel rallies are very similar - they are mainly dry, dusty gravel events. So I think to get the night stages back in and to get the conditions changeable, it makes it more of a lottery, so things can happen because it has just got very, very predictable.
"Also if you have any problems you just haven't got the time to get anything back, whereas if you look at those stages in the dark and when the weather is bad, if you do make a charge or something happens, you have actually got a chance. It makes the whole event more unpredictable."
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