WRC Rally Sweden 2020

[the sniper]

I intended to go this year too, but with the insecurity of the rally taking place at all, and the forecast not looking good, I decided to make other plans instead.

I've wanted to do it for years and this year I'm off work, so could have gone. I didn't commit to it in the end though because there's too much of a risk of a complete non-event. Just another problem for the Rally Sweden organisers, even if they do get some good cold/snowy years in future, increasingly how many foreign spectators (and their money) will they lose because people don't want to take the risk of financially committing to such a vulnerable event.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Unless they can move it north to ensure the weather the future of this WRC event looks really bleak. In its current location its another victim of climate change.

[AnttiL]

So, according press-conference depending on the weather we will have 12 SS or cancellation.

I hope you're not reading this 2016 news article which is circulating today https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artike...rtikel=6363601

Media literacy, people...

AFAIK no decision has been made yet

[Alex009]

So, according press-conference depending on the weather we will have 12 SS or cancellation.

Where did you find this info?

[Aquagen]

Oh my. Sorry

[masa90]

I intended to go this year too, but with the insecurity of the rally taking place at all, and the forecast not looking good, I decided to make other plans instead.

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The same decision here.

But surely that 4 stage rally cant be real? What a joke that would be, especially to wait one full day and then just one stage on Sunday?

[AnttiL]

The same decision here.

But surely that 4 stage rally cant be real? What a joke that would be, especially to wait one full day and then just one stage on Sunday?

It is not. Do not believe everything you see on random websites.

[KKS]

If I remember correctly, they picked the tyres a long while before the event, which ran in early December. So when the snow arrived in the week before, the tyres allocated were unsuitable - a lot of the first day was cancelled, though Sweetlamb was run, and Ogier set his first WRCar fastest time. I was at Hafren, it was quite icy and they came past in the morning as a 'road section'....
Saying that, it wasn't just the wrong tyres that caused the cancelled stages - the various safety vehicles were unable to get through the stage because of ice. The Sat & Sun were a lot better and ran okay.

So we have an example of using gravel tyres in frozen condition with temp around 0C. So for warm Sweden with +5C...+10C it must be quite OK. I don't know how it will be from regulation side, but from promoter and spectator side it better run warm Rally Sweden with gravel tyres rather than cancel it all.

[masa90]

So we have an example of using gravel tyres in frozen condition with temp around 0C. So for warm Sweden with +5C...+10C it must be quite OK. I don't know how it will be from regulation side, but from promoter and spectator side it better run warm Rally Sweden with gravel tyres rather than cancel it all.

The roads would be utterly destroyed. It has been said here already. Same gravel based roads here have gone completely mudlike on these temps already. And that is under normal cars and normal speeds. Under rallying they would be completely gone and propably everyone would not even make it trough.

[Rallyper]

I guess the meeting is still going on...