Next season’s Rally Sweden (11 – 14 February) will be the most northerly for years in a move to secure perfect conditions for the WRC’s only pure winter fixture. Although the second round of the 2021 FIA World Rally Championship remains based in Torsby, a raft of new snow-safe speed tests have been introduced in a bid to avoid the weather problems that truncated this year’s event. “We don’t want to be in the situation that we found ourselves in last winter, even if that was really extreme. “Even during the most extreme conditions last winter these northerly stages had snow.

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