Check my other comment in this thread

Not sure I’d agree with that. I can think of quite a few places I’ve been in the States where the paved roads could rival European stage roads if an event was organized there. Hell, check out this stage from Rally Tennessee

You should’ve seen the 1,000 mailboxes rally (AKA ESPR Tarmac AKA Rally New York USA). There was a section that ran parallel to the highway on a level access road, and at the one end there was actually a highway off ramp that they closed for the rally by parking a couple fire trucks in it.

To add to what Downunder said, residents of the community get to weigh in at town meetings and voice/vote whether the event should be allowed in the first place. It happening there means the vast majority of his neighbors, fellow farmers/landowners, and the rest of the community he lives in wanted it.

There are roughly 30 stage rallies in the United States this year

I hope you’re not implying the U.S./North America rallies don’t have corners. Our main roads may be straight as an arrow, but our rally stages can rival anything in Europe for corners.

It needs to be stated because of things like this.

Indeed. And this is a job where negligence/incompetence could put hundreds of lives and millions of dollars of aircraft at risk.

Yep, we were trained to start it so one of us could be at the controls in case of an emergency (like a coupling failure) when planes are being towed in and out of overnight storage. That's why it was called brakeriding. If anything went wrong there was someone there to get on the brakes. We didn't start the engines,…

At a lot of airports airlines have more planes on the ground overnight than they have gates at the terminal. So the surplus planes need to be taken over to the airport’s overnight holding area every evening and back to the gates in the morning. Cheaper and easier to have the baggage handlers do it than the higher train…

I got out of there twelve years ago

I was a baggage handler. I was trained how to start all three planes our airline flew out of the airport I worked at, and on multiple occasions I would go into the cockpit solo so I could start it up to brakeride it.

Ground agents are taught how to start the planes as part of the process of moving them on the ground.

I briefly worked as a ground agent back in 2006 (same job as him). I don't know if pay has improved since, but my starting pay was $9.25/hr, with union dues coming out of that along with the standard taxes and social security stuff. At least one airline started even lower than that. 

Very well said

This bit of audio was extremely sobering

For one summer I drove a literal rally car around the area, roll cage, eye-catching graphics and all. You can’t even imagine.

Co-drive Rally Finland, win a rally overall (came so close), win a national title, race the Baja 1000, compete in an R5/S2000/WRC car (current or former spec), co-drive an unlimited class truck, finish Vegas to Reno as a driver, race Dakar...

We have actual rally in the US. Raph even mentioned in the article he's competed in some of them