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5 km of snow and Ice at the Sisteron stage :)
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Next stage dry again, so 59 km stage and 5 km of that full of snow :)
It is good you wrote the explanation. Some people just repost the picture and make us imagine it is all a snowy tale over there.
It can and for sure it will change till the start.
Julian Porter @The_Rally_Guru
SS11-33.19 kms, it has 17kms of snow/slush in it, really difficult stage. First 13 kms is clear as is the last 2kms, the rest, bloody scary!
SS11 is St. Jean en Royans. That stage was decisive in last editions with always crazy weather (last year the last third was pure ice with heavy rain on it; a year before it was that famous sudden heavy snowfall). You don't need to know what is there now. It changes in half an hour from dry to complete snow etc. and even info from gravel crews might be completely inaccurate. The stage itself is in my opinion most boring of all RMC stages but with the weather of Vercors mountains... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by makinen_fan
Bad weather is expected for the rally, very low temperatures and some snow, for sure not a boring weather ;)
The stage which turned around the 2011 Monte. Everybody thought Delecour was mad for picking snow tyres - and Skoda messed it up, costing Hanninen the win. Classic Monte tyre choices.....
We haven't had a very snowy WRC Monte for quite a while, I wonder if that is to change.