WRC Rally Sweden 2020

[sghiwosh81]

it arrived Friday afternoon ... we cross our fingers

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[masa90]

Let's hope for the best but to have the rally properly would need a miracle. When is the date in which the final decision is made?

[AnttiL]

I can see both sides of it. On one side I agree with what you say that sponsors/TV-companies, teams, specators can't be let down and etc. However if you look upon it from the other side, if the roads gets too damaged
the likely hood of being allowed to used those roads next year will become slimmer (even if the rally pays for restoration of the roads). That said I really don't see them cancelling. Step 1 is to cancel the stages that are in
the worst condition and then if needed and if possible a stage could be rerun once on another day just to get the necessary KM. Step 2 would be to cancel the historic class either completely or on some stages.

It's quite clear the Saturday stages (Hagfors, Torntorp and Vargåsen) are in the worst condition. I haven't seen pictures of Torsby stage. Likenäs, Nyckelvattnet, Hof-Finnskog and Finnskogen could possibly be run. Could they fill Saturday with third runs of those stages? Maybe one run of Torsby for the power stage, no matter what conditions? That would make 255 km. The rules say the rally must have 75% of its route to award full points. 75% of the route is 225 km, so they would still have a bit of reserve.

Simply cancelling all Saturday stages would be 183 km, which would only award half points.

However, it's worth considering that if Vargåsen, the Karstad super special and Torsby are all cancelled, the rally loses three of its most important spectator areas.

[EstWRC]

man those pics are just plain awful

lets see what they decide tomorrow....

[KKS]

It's not gonna be happen. 1.5weeks of warm weather require now a lot of snow, that not all melt before a rally. Now we see thin layer of snow at north stages, which will melt by one sunny day with +5 temp. Now we have continues plus degree weather all 1.5 weeks in Sweden. In Norway it colder by 1 or 2 deg, but without huge amount of snow. It's not enough (((

For me it's decision to cancel only Sweden part and hope that Norway stages probably could be driven, or cancel all event now.

No snow predicted here. How it gonna be driven?



No fresh snow here, and they must keep for 1.5 of warm week :/

[linni]

Snow is not the main issue here.
Icy roads are. The ones in north from Torsby look pretty solid, but Saturday loop looks bad. However you can see ice banks floating in the lake on Vargasen picture so we can assume the road base might be fifty - sixty, frozen.

[tc10a]

Quite sure they wait at least until next weekend for a final decision. I still see a revised route as the most likely option.

[KKS]

Snow is not the main issue here.
Icy roads are. The ones in north from Torsby look pretty solid, but Saturday loop looks bad. However you can see ice banks floating in the lake on Vargasen picture so we can assume the road base might be fifty - sixty, frozen.

You think it's still possible to run event only on frozen gravel? Not good idea IMHO.

[Tauri_J]

The'll run 100% if the ground is frozen. But not a chance with such a warm weather coming in.

[mknight]

You think it's still possible to run event only on frozen gravel? Not good idea IMHO.

If it's cold they can make an ice layer by watering, problem is that the long term forecasts now predict no minus degrees from Saturday on. Yes predictions for 6 days ahead are hardly accurate, but they certainly don't look good atm.

IMO it is entirely possible to cancel it. But with Australia and Chile recently cancelled there surely is some pressure on the promoter to deliver "product" that manus, media, sponsors etc. pay for. Therefore they will not cancel it tomorrow, but wait until at least end of the week.