What happens when the frozen roads start defrost is that the top layer becomes very saturated with water so the road becomes very very soft, almost like a floating surface.
see this picture below (
source). Now imagine 20-30 rally cars + other official vehicles to drive on a road like this. How many cars would be able to pass before they would get stuck?
Then next question would be how you would remove the cars being stuck (as you cannot drive a heavy vehicle on the road)?

Munster loosing 2s per km in rally Estonia is just nothing more than a simple joke
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