Orikoru
Tour Winner
May have misunderstood but it looked as if he went straight back in line with the flag, which took him to where the trucks were, so then he knew if he dropped it there, he would then get a free drop as relief from the trucks being in his way, and the nearest point of relief then was the practise area as you say. So he had to take the first drop behind the trucks for that to come into play. (Sure I saw him physically drop it by the truck and then pick it up again to reinforce that theory.)I thought he was just making sure he dropped far enough back so that npr would be on the range. not sure he was dropping between the trucks at all.