Quote Originally Posted by linni View Post
Not this. I witnessed when Ogier and Tänak came through , pulling the snow, doing the job of road service they never got. Quite a shame for organisers.
Pretty stupid comment this.

Since we now have Monte coming up should we run a snow plough right before first cars when there is fresh snow? Most people would say no.
Ok should we run it 2 hours before? Evening before? What if it snows again? Salt the road?

(Note that in Monza short while ago they plowed all stages during the night before Saturday and it got some whining here, then they cancelled SS12 when it got 5-10 cm fresh snow on the top and that got massive whining here how it's not a rally any more...)

Now where do you draw the line? Most people would agree that if the road is undrivable for normal cars it should be plowed. But that is almost never the case and wasn't in Sweden 2018 either. The whining was that on some stages there were 5-10 cm of fresh snow instead of say 2-4 cm which is quite normal.

I don't remember the exact details in Sweden 2018 but the problem was that the snow came on the night before and the (last) snow plough drove at midnight or so. Since the first runs were 8-9 in the morning that means you'd need snow plough something like 5-6 in the morning. Also on the stage where drivers complained most, half of the stage was in Norway and the other (less plowed) in Sweden. I guess they couldn't use same plough over the border.

Sure it's still a competition and you want comparable conditions, but it's a rally. Do you want to introduce sweepers for gravel rallies as well?