WRC Rally Sweden 2020

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Originally Posted by BleAivano

Åre are not interested because hotels would be occupied but much less people would by access to the alpine ski systems = less income.

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Is it the same situation for them during the whole snowy season? Might it be that Alpine skiing has only some high season weeks and for less crowded weeks WRC would be welcome?

Or it could skip Are for being 1 day in just in Trondheim and 1,5 days in Ostersund and more far away from Are.

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Originally Posted by BleAivano

Vännäs yes. However if you look at the snow depth maps very little snow in Umeå. Granö which is 50 km noth-northwest of Vännäs (which is 30 km west of Umeå) only have 38 cm and Vännäs have 24.
So it's not huge amounts of snow there either. It's quite dire along the entire Norrland coastline.

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However current conditions around Umeå/Vännäs probably well enough for a WRC winterrally.

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Originally Posted by Crazy J

Is it the same situation for them during the whole snowy season? Might it be that Alpine skiing has only some high season weeks and for less crowded weeks WRC would be welcome?

Or it could skip Are for being 1 day in just in Trondheim and 1,5 days in Ostersund and more far away from Are.

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I would assume highs during christmas-new year+ during sportloven (weeks 7-10)+ easter breaks. So the rally weekend conflicts with the weekend at the start of the first sportlovet week.

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

However current conditions around Umeå/Vännäs probably well enough for a WRC winterrally.

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Agreed for Vännas (and further in lands) but probably not Umeå though.

I only think UMeå as host city and possible SP/HQ location. Stages could be wherever in a radius of 150K.

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Originally Posted by Alex009

Interesting. Whats difference between this and other spring or autumn rallies driving in wet conditions?

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Roads are really soft for a month or two and that can create big holes like where drainage pipes are, Aurskog Høland rally just east of Oslo in Norway which runs in start of June of all things had stages cancelled a few years ago because of it

Google Earth Map Rally Sweden 2020 is now online ► http://bit.ly/317psHe

New start of Hagfors today, frozen gravel and -3
https://twitter.com/TorAndreBorrese/...97092208775168

Sorry to say, but up to 29th of January there´s not even many nights with minusdegrees... (In Torsby area)

I´m not pessimist, but I think RS is in real danger...

It will be sad for Latvala, who had planned a private entry for this rally. Hopefully the rally is cancelled early enough so he won't have to pay for shipments and other arrangements like Paddon for Australia (although shipping from Finland to Sweden will be cheaper anyway)