No, Rim was totally cool in '06 when USFS and BLM shut down all the stage roads and the entire rally was run in the dirt oval section of the Palmdale fairgrounds.
Take the largest (spectator) rally event on the west coast, reward corporate sponsorship with towing 100+ cars leaving spectators freezing in the pouring rain with no cell service in the Angeles mountains, give it a couple years to die, and when people still try to keep it going, restrict it to fairgrounds.
Yup.
I don't know why rally never took off in the US.
My heart goes out to all the guys trying to keep it going in the face of the BS.