Värmland roads had more character than in Umeå. There were crests and corners, variations on the roads from wide to narrow. Now we have just endless super fast forest roads - even two 25 km stages made up completely of them - but very little wide roads with crests and flowing bends. There's barely any jumps or crests anywhere. Also Värmland had awesome technical sections like the beginning of Vargåsen, without being super narrow between the trees like most of the technical sections in Umeå. At best, the Umeå roads resemble Arctic Rally Finland.
Yes, but we aren’t sitting here wondering how many stages will be cancelled due to lack of snow/ice.
Ford should certainly be able to afford part of the cost of developing a WRC27-spec car with M-Sport.
The new Cars are considerably cheaper than the Rally1 and sales should be good to privateers....
No it's not obvious. It makes no sense at all which is why I continued to quiz it.
I fully accept you have your position, I just want to understand the reasoning it's based on. With that...
Jurgenson and the team are optimistic about the upgrades for 2026.
Rally2 (ex-R5) News