Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019

https://rallysweden.com/wp-content/u...letin-no-2.pdf
Bulletin 2

All P1 and P2P will be required to complete their first passage of Shakedown in order of classification in the Championship.
(WRC + WRC2PRO drivers)

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Originally Posted by cali

Myrvold, I have been many times in Rally Sweden and visited those arena stages. Maybe it is just me and my friends but we're never going back to those "Arena places". Just horrible.

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Agreed, However, while I'm usually several KM's from the end of the stage, I've seen more and more people around "my" spot as the of the stage gets more and more "arena"-like.

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Originally Posted by AnttiL

Likenäs has also the rallycross part in the beginning, that counts as an arena, right?

In Finland we also have these large official spectator areas which an be considered as arenas, the most famous of them the Kakaristo junction. For sure it's nice for the casual fan or a tourist, but for the hardcore fans it's better to pick a quieter place in the forest. Like cali said, it's more of a festival, lots of drunk people who don't even care so much for the competition...

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Seemingly not, at least it hasn't before, and isn't this year.

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Originally Posted by AnttiL

The long term forecasts are still to be changed, but let's speculate. Right now it looks like there won't be snowfall during the whole rally week, especially not during Friday. If we assume we get some plus degrees and rain on the weekend, then some -8°C days before the rally and no fresh snow, that would mean a good ice base for the roads. This would favour the first car on the road, right? The studs would have a direct contact to the ice, whereas all the next cars would have to deal with various amounts of loose snow/slush on top of the ice?

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I'll admit, I don't hope for -8 during Thursday and Friday night... I plan to sleep outside in a hammock, so I would prefer the temperatures to be closer to 0 :D

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Originally Posted by tpt010

I have not received mine. I sent query about that today, but no reply yet.

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Received week ago. Estonia.

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Originally Posted by linni

Received week ago. Estonia.

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Not in Belgium!

They told me:

I’m really, really sorry for this but we seems to have messed this up a little bit.

I have two solutions to offer by now:

Either we send the package to where you are staying in Sweden

or I’ll add you to the list which allow you to pick them up at any of the Rally-sites from our staff.

What would you prefer?

https://www.yr.no/place/Sweden/V%C3%...rsby/long.html

Now the forecasts are again giving more plus degrees, for all of Thursday and for the warmest points of Friday and Saturday.

Disclaimer: I'm not afraid they will cancel the rally. It will just affect the conditions. If it's like this then we'll see more gravel on the second runs.

We didn't receive the rally guide either, but called two days ago and apparently it will arrive now on Monday due to an error. Very apologetic, let's see if it arrives.

Does anyone know if the lake near Colin's Crest will be open for cars this year?

Well, beacuse of the thick snowlayer, cold can`t reach the ice/water and it`s quite thin this season. i`d guess no.

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Originally Posted by AnttiL

https://www.yr.no/place/Sweden/V%C3%...rsby/long.html

Now the forecasts are again giving more plus degrees, for all of Thursday and for the warmest points of Friday and Saturday.

Disclaimer: I'm not afraid they will cancel the rally. It will just affect the conditions. If it's like this then we'll see more gravel on the second runs.

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Perfect weather for sleeping in a hammock though!

Previews

Citroen https://media.citroenracing.com/en/c...k=6824dbbb7069
Toyota https://toyotagazooracing.com/wrc/re...2/preview.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrUAfnwtazE
Hyundai https://motorsport.hyundai.com/snow-...-rally-sweden/
M-sport - TBA