The 2021 FIA World Rally Championship is the forty-ninth season of the World Rally Championship, an auto racing competition recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) as the highest class of international rallying. The Japanese manufacturer's party was further flourished by the dominance at the Power Stage, which saw them build a twenty-two-point lead over the reigning manufacturers' champions Hyundai. The category is open to cars entered by manufacturers and complying with Rally2 regulations. There were also five bonus points awarded to the winners of the Power Stage, four points for second place, three for third, two for fourth and one for fifth. Keep up-to-date with the latest news, rally results, WRC standings, calendar updates, video highlights and schedules from every rally. [31] Sordo will be partnered with new co-driver Borja Rozada after the Monte Carlo Rally as Carlos del Barrio is due to partner Fabrizio Zaldívar in the WRC-3 category. [50] The M-Sport crew of Teemu Suninen and Mikko Markkula also retired from the rally when they crashed out at the very first stage of the event. 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The Ypres Rally Belgium will … In the manufacturers' championship, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT holds a twenty-two-point lead over reigning manufacturer champion Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, with M-Sport Ford WRT in third. Welcome! M-Sport Ford WRT will enter a Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. [30] The team's third entry will be shared between crews led by Dani Sordo and Craig Breen. Keep up-to-date with the latest news, results, highlights Croatia will host one of the world's most attractive sports events from April 22 to 25, 2021. Loubet and Landais had previously contested three events with the team in 2020. He came close to the title last year, and now Toyota's Elfyn Evans gives his verdict on what to expect from 2021 as the World Rally Championship … Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe are third, a further four points behind. 2021 will see the creation of the World Rally Championship for Teams, a new championship title that will exist alongside the World Rally Championships for Drivers, Co-drivers and Manufacturers. WRC adds Arctic Rally Finland to 2021 calendar. FIA World Rally Championship 2021 Final Round. [1] Crews are free to compete in cars complying with Rally1 and Rally2 regulations;[a] however, only manufacturers competing with Rally1 cars homologated under regulations introduced in 2017 are eligible to score points in the Manufacturers' championship. The World Rally Championship-3 crew of Marco Bulacia Wilkinson and Marcelo Der Ohannesian joined the WRC-2 with defending champions Toksport WRT. 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These events include rallies in Greece, Turkey, Argentina, Monza and Latvia. [40] Former driver Jari-Matti Latvala was named to succeed Mäkinen's role. [27], Hyundai retained the line-up of Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja. 2021 WRC final round will be held in Japan [24], M-Sport Ford WRT will only enter two full-time entries in 2021. [51] Local heroes Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were the favourites for the weekend. Jan Solans and Mauro Barreriro were the reigning drivers' and co-drivers' champions. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic meant that only seven of the thirteen events planned for the 2020 championship took place, the World Motorsport Council passed a resolution declaring that for the drivers', co-drivers' and manufacturers' championship titles to be awarded a minimum of six rallies must be held. The championship begins with the season-opening Monte Carlo Rally, the most unpredictable WRC event of the year. The following teams and crews are under contract to contest the 2020 World Rally Championship-2: Hyundai Motorsport N plan to introduce an updated version of the Hyundai i20 R5 known as the Hyundai i20 N Rally2 during the season. Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo 2021", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2021_World_Rally_Championship&oldid=1002843254, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports, Pages using multiple image with auto scaled images, Articles with French-language sources (fr), Articles with Spanish-language sources (es), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 26 January 2021, at 08:16. [30] Under the terms of the agreement, Pirelli will supply tyres to all teams entering World Rally Cars and R5 cars. [49] The Estoinan pair's rally was further hampered by two punctures, which meant that they did not have enough rubber on one of their wheels for the car to be considered road legal. SC Movisport will join the championship, entering a Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 for Nikolay Gryazin and Konstantin Aleksandrov. Unable to complete the liasion between special stages, Tänak and Järveoja were ruled out for the second consecutive year in Monte-Carlo. The Hyundai crew of Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja took an early lead,[48] but their lead was wiped out when they were comprised by lost of power in hairpins. The World Rally Championship (WRC) is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver, co-driver and manufacturer.The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers in each event. The series currently consists of 14 three-day events driven on surfaces ranging from gravel and tarmac to snow and ice. As the 2021 World Rally Championship prepares to launch amid tight COVID-19 restrictions in Monte Carlo, here are the eight things unrelated to … All crews use tyres provided by Pirelli. [32][33] Nine-time World Champion Sébastien Loeb left Hyundai to join Bahrain Raid Xtreme team in the 2021 Dakar Rally and Team X44 in the Extreme E electric rally raid series. [34][35] Hyundai's second team, Hyundai 2C Competition, will enter an i20 Coupe WRC for Pierre-Louis Loubet and Vincent Landais at every round of the championship. Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo | The world's largest repository of motor racing results and statistics from F1 to WRC, from MotoGP, covering 50 events every weekend with stats dating back to 1894 | Motorsport Stats The 2021 World Rally Championship has got off to a complicated start even before the first stage of the Monte Carlo Rally.Rally Sweden is gone, replaced by the Arctic Rally… The category is open to cars entered by manufacturers and complying with Rally2 regulations. [53] They also became the first crew to win the rally with five different manufacturers. [53] Last year victor Thierry Neuville joined them on the podium with his new co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe, whose first ever podium in the championship. Crews are free to compete in cars complying with Rally1 and Rally2 regulations; however, only manufacturers competing with Rally1 cars ho… [43] Ogier explained that his decision to stay in the sport was because the shortened 2020 championship was not how he wanted his career to end. [10] Three events were successful,[b] but the championship was affected by a series of cancellations in 2019 and 2020 that necessitated changes to the 2021 calendar: In light of the disruption caused by the pandemic in 2020 and in anticipation of further delays, the calendar included an additional six reserve rounds that could be included in the event of rallies being cancelled. 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