Transcontinental Race No. 8 - TCR8 - #TCRN08 - 2022

Ah right I see! So would one solution be banning more of these roads in the rule book? But then does that force the route down to being nearly prescribed?

They tried that this year in Romania by banning all the E-roads. But that still left roads like this little beauty, a three-lane road where you have two lanes uphill and one downhill, with concrete blocks in the middle. It was very scary as, when you only had one lane, there was no way for anything to get past. Some drivers were patient but some just forced their way through anyway.

One guy was knocked off on this bit of road. He was able to finish, but had a few injuries. I remember being on this stretch with a truck behind leaning on his horn, clearly not wanting to slow down, and trying to balance on the white line, not daring to look back. It's scary!

I think it is a lot harder to find all the potentially dangerous roads across Europe than it is to identify some reasonably safe roads.