[WRC] Rally Sweden 2026

[becher]

Strange tyre issues for M-Sport. I'd think a good pressure would press the studs into the ice more.

That's not how tyres work, not at all.

High pressure means the tyre can not "adjust" to the road surface in a malleable manner but rather looses contact to the surface here and there.

Try it with a bicycle and take a bumpy corner with different tyres.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

That's not how tyres work, not at all.

High pressure means the tyre can not "adjust" to the road surface in a malleable manner but rather looses contact to the surface here and there.

Try it with a bicycle and take a bumpy corner with different tyres.

Spiked ice tyres must be different.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Bertelli
After 8kms, a delaminated tyre on the straight out of nowhere, I was cruising without pushing...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Sesks is still moving to start SS4.

[becher]

Spiked ice tyres must be different.

Not in the way you are thinking. The car and therefore the four tyres are pressed into the ground by gravitational force, if that force is applied to a soft object (low tyre pressure) or hard object (high tyre pressure) doesn't change the force with which the spikes are pressed into the surface. Of course this is a static thought experiment only and dynamically (movement through corners) things are different.

[Rallyper]

Maybe MSport has faulty gauges?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Glad for Sesks he got through.

[drive]

Milner confirmed in the interview that they had low pressure, which worked fine during tests... and now they would 'rethink'...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

There is cold-induced contraction which had to be factored in for the tyre pressures.

Maybe its colder at the rally than at M-Sport's test. Or when testing the tyres were warmer due to more short runs and less waiting before starting the runs.

[PLuto]

Sesks retired after regrouping (after SS 4)