WRC Rally Sweden 2020

[Tarmop]

If it gets cold like like promised, it will be ok....that mud freezes quite quickly. Not ideal, but...like winter nowadays.

[er88]

Hard on the organisers and fans but if they want to be on the calendar in future, I'd tell them to either move the itinerary/base further north, or have a ready made backup plan/ itinerary so things can be switched with more ease to other stages (stages possibly in reserve where snow is more of a guarantee?).

[masa90]

Wow things went depressing in a weekend. Really gonna need a miracle now.

[Meekefan]

If it is going to cancellation, please do it before people travel to Sweden on order to avoid throw more money to the garbage!!!

[Meekefan]

It's finally in my hands.

I hope everyone of us could give the best usage to the tickets.

[mknight]

Recce is on Wednesday, stages are closed now before they freeze. (think they were close pretty much all day today)

Weather forecast is for freeze from now (already freezing right now), with only afternoon temps going above 0.

The big question as it looks right now is Sunday.

[Myrvold]

Hard on the organisers and fans but if they want to be on the calendar in future, I'd tell them to either move the itinerary/base further north, or have a ready made backup plan/ itinerary so things can be switched with more ease to other stages (stages possibly in reserve where snow is more of a guarantee?).

Fair enough, Torsby have issues as well this year, but it shouldn't be much more complicated (if you don't include the money-factor), than skipping Karlstad, and spending that 205km road section on going north/higher up, but you could still have service on the airfield in Torsby. We've seen it from testing that there are roads with snow in the area.

With that being said, I am on the fence if I should drop this or not. Been going for years and years, but not sure it's worth it this year.

[bluuford]

Recce is on Wednesday, stages are closed now before they freeze. (think they were close pretty much all day today)

Weather forecast is for freeze from now (already freezing right now), with only afternoon temps going above 0.

The big question as it looks right now is Sunday.

For all long stages, ground temperatures dropped below zero at around 15:30-16:00 today, gravel road does not need too much minus degrees to freeze. just some time and few degrees. I have lived in a small village for 18 years and basically you need one night with 1-2 degrees below zero and then you have only puddles that need a bit more time, otherwise it was OK to go with 5-6 tonnes tractor without any marks on surface. To make sure the road last, was the reason why stages are closed today and tomorrow.

For Likenäs they have built every year very thick layer of ice. With spikes and plus degrees they turn it to a slush from the top, but road should stay OK. It will be just very tricky end of rally for the drivers. And there is still some time to go, so, I would not take precipitation forecasts so granted yet

One of my work fields at the university is adaptation to the changing climate. One way is to run away, the other way is to find solutions for staying. I dont want to run away, I like to find solutions This is what Rally Sweden is doing right now and the best we can do right now is to support their adaptation

[RS]

Hard on the organisers and fans but if they want to be on the calendar in future, I'd tell them to either move the itinerary/base further north, or have a ready made backup plan/ itinerary so things can be switched with more ease to other stages (stages possibly in reserve where snow is more of a guarantee?).

Where/when would WRC need to go to in order to stronger guarantee a winter rally? Even if it means a different country and holding a summer rally in Sweden instead maybe..

[PLuto]

This rally should be cancelled.

This rally should have been cancelled a week ago.