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Incredible that was the first post in the Rally Sweden thread. I think this shows we need a major change in WRC!
Lindholm remains in Hyundai. Suninen absent.
Yeah. I just tried to watch the page ahead, but there wasn´t any... :(
No Suninen in Sweden ? Probably no deal and career is over for him. If he can deliver somewhere, then it is here - Sweden.
56 cars in total in Sweden!!!
3 swedish crews, no norwegians, a few finns.
Exspensive periode, but still!!
A bad Entry List! It shows everything of the current situation of the WRC.
Three Swedish and no norwgian drivers at all!
Very sad that Huttunen career is over and maybe Suninen also.
Regarding Huttunen and Suninen I must say, even though they are good, their chances have been so many. Without much success.
Now a new bunch of brilliant Finnish drivers are waiting for results. I believe strongly Finland will have a few more guys in Rally1 cars within a couple of years.
I can’t help but feel that is a disappointing entry list, particularly Rally2.
Sweden is do specific rally that no many drivers want to be there. It is always like this
Agree that driving on snow and ice is for most people very special and rare.
But for many of us up here asphalt rally is about as cool as watching paint dry. Reason, we drive very few rallies on the black stuff, and most on snow and gravel.
Rally Sweden used to be the highlight for many locals. They worked on getting together the budget to drive our local world championship round. Swedes, Finns and Norwegians got more km in one rally than all the nationlal series in total.
Then it came more and more regulations on tyres, petrol, much higher entry fee and so on.
Now with european economies struggeling, less and less people have the possibility.
With few locals driving, you loose a lot of spectators wanting to watch a friend or one or more local boys and girls.
Maybe FIA need to cut entry fees for locals, so more local drivers can drive their rally!
Can anybody tell me what "authorised neutral athlete" (the asterisk) means?
Just checked the itinerary and nice long stages every day. Two times 28km on Friday and Saturday and two times 25km on Sunday.
One thing is money and regulations, but you also see where the most Norwegian drivers are located. That's also where their sponsors were located. Doing Rally Sweden in Värmland&Norway, getting the biggest sponsors to their service park, VIP'ing them around (as VIP as you can make it as a Rally2/Rally3/Rally4 privateer), it gave the sponsors a reason to chip in a little bit extra. It was worth it. They could drive up after work on Friday, either do a full party on Saturday and sleep of the alcohol on Sunday, or watch rally and service on Saturday, go home again and sleep in their own bed on Saturday night. Perfect.
In Umeå... that's not the case. Solberg in WRC2, Johansson in JWRC. Then there is Reiersen as a one off. That's it with Norwegian-Swedes/Swedes (I claim both Solberg and Reiersen as Norwegians!). With 4 Finns (Manufacturer-drivers in Rally1 not included) it's not really much more Finns than usual either.
It's just not worth it. It takes a lot more time for everyone involved. It takes 12 hours to drive, in perfect conditions, with no stop from where I live and up to Umeå, and I live closer than many of the Norwegian privateers that have showed up now and again.
1550nok if you want a physical pass 1250 for e-ticket, that's crazy with the itinerary this year.
The same with spectating: to drive from Stockholm - too long, to fly or train - too complicate on the place; roads are far far away from Varmlads and Nor border roller coasters. At the same time, just 2h drive from Stockholm, near Gavle is real winter wonderland this year. Umea has no USPs.
Do you need to buy the rally passes well in advance or can you purchase in petrol stations etc just before the rally, like Finland?
Strange the physical passes are so much more expensive
Seems like only e-ticket from today onwards, nothing at Coop this year.
You can still get the physical pass but they won't send by mail anymore, you order online and then pick it up at Rally HQ at Umeå Service Park Nolia it says on their FB.
I'Il just get an e-ticket and make myself a fake pass as a souvenir, i save all my passes.
One problem is expensive rental cars, i don't know what people have been able to get but I don't dare driving a 2WD up there at least.
The Audi A4 quattro I've had the last two years was now 13.000kr, in 22 i was 6000kr. Saw a Volvo XC60 at 7000kr
Flight from Oslo-Stockholm-Umeå 3500kr.
So I'm driving 10-11 hours starting on Monday night, so had to take next Monday off also, 5 days off work.
(100 euro = 1135kr)
You have to be creative: fly or take a train to, e.g., Luleå or Sundsvall, take a car there, 3:20 drive and you are in Umeå. I am sure that as these cities are not close to rally, prices have more sense.
So this year there wont be possibility to buy rally-pass at the gas stations or Umea service park? So i wont be able to attend stages if I want to pay in cash? Meanwhile they prefer ONLY cash for the parking? Confusing.
And I have to agree, price this year is really high...
EDIT: And how will they check those e-tickets at the stages? With scanners? I can imagine how long this process will take, for everyone to take out the mobile phone, find a wallet, open the file, scan it ... I think it that will undoubtedly create jams at stage entrencies.
I think you need the e-ticket either way yes. No reception and Swish only works for Swedish people.
I guess so, wasn't it scanners they had issues with at CER?
No magazine so all stage info is here btw
https://rallysweden.com/program/
Is there anyway to get into the start of the Umea stage? Both the short and full version. Thanks 👍🏻 PM if easier
Quote from the Finnish forum. Organizer had listed these Coops when asked if the rally passes are available this year.
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City Umeå, Stora Coop Tomtebo, Stora Coop Ersboda, Coop Haga, Coop Teg, Coop Ålidhem, Coop Mariehem, Coop Grisbacka, Coop Bjurholm, Coop Holmsund, Coop Hörnefors, Coop Lycksele, Coop Nordmaling, Coop Robertsfors, Coop Röbäck, Stora Coop Norrböle, Stora Coop Sörbole, Coop Vilhelmina, Coop Vindeln, Coop Vännäs, Coop Vännäsby, Stora Coop Örnsköldsvik
Two nights stay if you want to watch 1 day of rally/service etc. Travel up on Friday, mid-day, and back home mid-day Sunday.
It's a lot higher cost, and while one can say "big sponsors". It's not really that much big sponsors around on the local drivers here. I think it's quite telling that neither Johan Kristofferson or OC Veiby are bothering.
A bit of snow in the forecast for Sweden
https://www.yr.no/en/forecast/daily-...mmun/Ume%C3%A5
In that case, Late runners will have a lot of advantage
Yeah, good luck Thierry.
But pretty sure its gonna change. Forecast been fluctuating from one side to another lately.
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That will needs to be rolled up by a roll, can forecast change too much in 5 days? I don't think so..
Only 10-15cm from Wednesday to Friday morning on Yr, it's usually correct, less on the northern stages, depends how close they manage to plow the snow on Friday morning before stage start
It is funny, same like last year - really low temperatures in the weekend before and during rally week the temperature is almost around zero...