Rally Sweden 2016

[Fast Eddie WRC]

DMACK Tyres ‏@DMACK_Tyres
Busy fitting this morning, lots of studded tyres to go on rims. @RallySweden organisers given everyone 4 more tyres.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

‏@RallySweden
These roads/stages are fixed tonight: Vargåsen, Värmullåsen, Torsby and Fredriksberg.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Colin Clark report:

https://www.periscope.tv/w/aYxP5jE1O...qk8HLEo1W3TG60

[EstWRC]

Meeting this afternoon (17.30) with @fia, teams and @RallySweden to take a decision #wrc #RallySweden

[sindroms]

But you know, statistics is average...

"Hospital patients average body temperature is normal (morgue included)"

[Franky]

Why propose such a small change in the time of the event, when you can go extreme. Run Sweden and Finland back to back in the summer. Sweden runs late into the night (not much midnight sun in July) and Finland runs like it usually does. And then you can find some other place for winter rally.

[Luijbregts]

Breathing :-) and alive... I responded in a new comment! But anyway, if they will go on with all ''newly planned'' stages they have some big balls regarding the budget & safety... but great for the spectators :-)

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Maybe grading the roads with fresh gravel will work and save the damage being too bad...

[Lundefaret]

February it is, the coldest month. The rally is exactly at the right time. But you know, statistics is average, but you rarely have average condititions. Most of Estonia and this part of Sweden has two patterns of wetaher in winter. It is really cold (high pressure area) and some snow just before it gets cold or it is warm and rainy (cyclones from ocean). Average weather (statistical average temperatures) is actually not common at all Climatologists have been thinking that weather depndent events should be somehow flexible.. so you should be able to shift these events couple of days back and forth, usually it is enough

Thanks for the answer, a pleasure having a weather expert on the forum. Okay, then I guess the only "guarantee" is to have it higher up north, or higher in altitude, or at least have a "Plan B" set of stages to use if the conditions are troublesome. This Plan B-solution may be the best?

[Rallyper]

I will be very pleasantly surprised if this dont end in a canselation...

What cant surely be seen on this picture is how loose the clay on the surface is and how hard the ground is. I´ve been told there´s frozen road in the bottom.