The World Rally Championship will persist with winter rallies, and look to add more, despite last week's dramas in Sweden.The second round of the 2016 season was in severe doubt last week, when unseasonably warm weather and a lack of snow sparked safety concerns. A shortened rally was ultimately run,...

Hayden Paddon has retained his Rally Sweden second-place finish after successfully returning to the service park.The Hyundai driver had been in a comfortable second place behind Sebastien Ogier heading onto Sunday's final stage, Varmullsasen, but clipped marker posts on his run through the powerstage.Paddon completed the stage but his New...

World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier believes Rally Sweden should be cancelled.Talking to local newspaper Varmlands Folkblad after the opening day of the recce for the Karlstad-based event, the Volkswagen driver said he did not understand why they had started reconnaissance.While recent warm weather has left the roads clear of snow...

A decision on whether to cancel this week's Rally Sweden is likely to be made on Monday.The second round of the 2016 World Rally Championship has been hit by warmer than expected temperatures, melting away snow and ice on the roads around Karlstad. Ironically, a freeze is forecast for the...

Rally Sweden will feature a new shakedown stage after protestors stood in the way of the original road on the outskirts of host city Karlstad.Local residents close to the planned shakedown stage were unhappy with the location and forced the organizers of next weekend's second round of the 2016 World...

World Rally crews fear warm conditions could threaten some stages at this week's Rally Sweden.Plans for the crews to recce this evening's Karlstad spectator stage in their rally cars have been shelved – the crews will now use pre-running cars, with smaller studs which will cause less damage to the...

The Rally Sweden shakedown stage was halted on Thursday morning after an incident in which a photographer was injured.Czech privateer Michal Solowow lost control of his Ford Fiesta RS WRC (pictured) over the first of two consecutive jumps on the stage. The car traveled for some distance before coming to...

RALLY SWEDEN The second round of the FIA World Rally Championship is one of the fastest and most spectacular events on the calendar and is set in the snowy forests of Sweden and Norway. Beautiful scenery abounds, but competing in sub-zero temperatures requires specific preparation for both man and machinery....

Citroen team principal Yves Matton has praised Kris Meeke's Rally Sweden debut, pointing out that he fared better than Sebastien Loeb on his first snow events.Meeke was running sixth for much of last weeke's event before an error dropped him to 10th on the final morning."He did a very good...