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Originally Posted by hoffman66
Still do not understand the tyre rules on this event, it is clear a lot of those stages had minimum ice, some were pure gravel on the clips I have seen, surely running studs there is idiotic, and will cut up the road even more?
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Usually studs are the right call for Sweden - but the warm weather this year obviously caused problems. The studded tyres were the only ones available to the teams so they just had to make the best of it. I suspect the tyres were part of the reason the route was changed so much. I do wonder if gravel tyres were a viable option - on the sections where it was ice and snow they'd not have been much use so probably not.