Quote Originally Posted by AndyRAC View Post
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.