Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
I think the point is that without the national rally in between, the road opener has it bad only for half of the day, it should be better on the repeat of the stages, but then it's even worse. But Ogier's stage times on the first runs of stages didn't differ much apart from the 3rd on Vargåsen 1 and and 6th on Likenäs 1.

Also, the historics did not run on Torsby between Saturday evening's Torsby Sprint and the power stage. Kris said the road was plowed and all the loose snow pulled into the ruts, making it just worse.
Again - look at Likenäs 2, it's not better than Likenäs 1 for the early guys. I can see that without JWRC, non-championship runners etc. it will be "easier" for the second run. But then you are left with, what? 12 WRC cars and 7-8 WRC-2 cars. A 20 car rally at max.