Sports Telegram Swedish Rally will of after all. It does not like the world champion Sébastien Ogier.
the Frenchman was not pleased after his Wednesday tested the rally roads in Norway and Värmland.
– We saw the two best stretches of the rally in Norway. But that’s all. The rest of the rally is not possible to run under me. I do not even understand why we conduct reconnaissance. We are destroying the roads for no reason at all, he tells VF.
The hot weather has shortened the Swedish rally sharply. Hopefully – if the cooling meteorologists say should come really will – they can run 240 km rally of the original 321. It would mean that there are still awarded full World Cup points, and that it is possible to run a worthy winner.
But Sébastien Ogier questioning including the security of the competition. He thinks that the most reasonable would be to set up the rally.
– I know it’s a very difficult decision for all ?? | But it’s simply not possible to run this time . I’m sorry for all the trouble it would mean but it would be too dangerous to try to drive on gravel roads. Studded tires are not suited for it.
Tight last year
However, all indications that it shortened the rally carried out according to plan and will begin on Friday.
– We are running as scheduled. We have already been working for a few days to try to resolve the situation and we remain positive, says Jarmo Mahonen, rally director of the International Automobile Federation FIA, the New People’s Blade.
Last year’s rally was the densest in modern times.
It differed only 4.6 seconds – converted to 162.84 meters – between the three lead cars before the final short distance. In the end, it was precisely Sébastien Ogier won, before the Belgian Thierry Neuville and Norwegian Andreas Mikkelsen.
Last year’s World Championship runner-up Jari-Matti
– I love to drive on snow. There is no doubt that it is harder to go to Sweden without credit than it would have been after a good performance in Monte Carlo. But there is nothing to do about it now. The positive thing is that I now have a better starting position, said Latvala.
Tideman årsdebuterar
The competition from the Swedes is marginal.
It completely missing Swedes in the big WRC class, motor sports profiles that Pontus Tidemand and Johan Kristoffersson down into smaller classes.
Tidemand begins its WRC2-season in Sweden.
– It is of course sad that we probably will not get a classic Rally Sweden with snow banks and a white landscape, but the weather we can not influence. No disrespect to the organizers who work hard that it actually will be a rally, now it is up to the competitors and spectators to make the best of it and make it become a popular festival, as usual, he says on his website.
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