World champion Sebastien Ogier blasted Rally of Sweden organisers as "idiots" on Wednesday after the race had eight stages cut due to lack of snow and rising temperatures. The classic winter rally, traditionally fought out over kilometres of deep-lying snow, is this year faced instead with mud and gravel with organisers fearing that the studded snow tyres would severely damage the country's roads. As a result, the 21 planned stages between Thursday and Sunday, have been reduced to 13. "This is of no use to anybody, I don't know what we are going to do here," triple world champion Ogier fumed to the Varmlands Folkblad newspaper. "I don't know who took this decision...
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