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    I live in Norway, about 1,5 hours from some of the stages running on this side of the border, and where I live we have green grass. As mentioned, things aren't looking good. Right now the organizers of Rally Finnskog (the second round of the Norwegian rally championship) are looking for a plan B to run the event as many of the stages are pure gravel. Part of this event runs in the same area as the Norwegian stages just two weeks before Rally Sweden.

    With no snow or cold temperatures forecasted for the next ten days for a majority of the area where Rally Sweden is to run, I'd say we're in trouble right now.

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    Wouldn't it be more closer to rally gb than just pure gravel rally? Here in neighbour country it just has rained, rained and kept on plus temps for pretty much the whole winter.

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    is it possible to go even more north or it doesnt make a difference?
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    On the long term you can do that, if the possibilities are there. But now you cannot quickly move the rally, there's more work than that...

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    i didnt mean this year

    i mean they have to do something, the situation aint gettin better...
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    It depends on a lot of factors I think. At this moment they are sponsored by the Varmland region, and they are already driving in the Northern part of that region... You need the accommodation, money and roads to organize a rally...

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    Quote Originally Posted by EstWRC View Post
    is it possible to go even more north or it doesnt make a difference?
    Seems every year we are on the edge of the conditions not being suitable...
    Sorry if this has been asked before, but if the rally was moved further North for weather, is there anywhere suitable to base the rally from?

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    I think we could be in a position where this rally is cancelled, and cancelled in decent time (before teams travel to Sweden etc). That's if things don't dramatically improve weather wise.

    Some years we have had stages binned and routes altered at the last minute, but this could be an easy call to cancel the event in advance due to the state of the weather. Would be a disaster to lose another event, but we also don't want a situation of uncertainty where everyone has travelled there in the hope we might get some last minute weather change before Reece begins.

    As for the future, either Sweden finds a way to make this event work further north or it dies (imho).

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    Quote Originally Posted by doubled1978 View Post
    Seems every year we are on the edge of the conditions not being suitable...
    Sorry if this has been asked before, but if the rally was moved further North for weather, is there anywhere suitable to base the rally from?
    From the top of my head I immediatelly think of Östersund or maybe somewhere around Falun.
    Swedish quys would know more.

    They'd loose the benefit of co-arrangement with Norway though, not sure how much that matters.

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    I don't think its suitable to move rally sweden, because all the clubs, people and valenteers live in this area.
    It has been discussed lots of times in both countries and the main problem is to get a new organisation to run the event.
    In the mountains North of Lillehammer it is lots if snow, but we cant even get an organisation to run a smal rally here.


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