Kris Meeke is gearing up for third career outing at Rally Sweden and is anticipating some of the trickiest surface conditions he's ever faced in WRC. The Abu Dhabi Total WRT Citroen driver crashed out of a likely rostrum result 12 months ago at the snowy Scandinavian event to eventually finish seventh and returns to Sweden this year facing a very different set of conditions. Warm weather has seen ice and snow melt in vast volumes and has forced organisers to cancel eight stages which use public roads due to safety concerns. Running on treaded tyres, it is feared without a layer of ice the WRC cars will thrash the asphalt and make it unusable for cars and recovery vehicles. Meeke, who...
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