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2021 Rally Finland

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2021 Rally Finland
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The 2021 Rally Finland (also known as the Secto Rally Finland 2021) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over three days between 1 and 3 October 2021.[2] It marked the seventieth running of the Rally Finland. The event was the tenth round of the 2021 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. The 2021 event was based in Jyväskylä in Central Finland and was contested over nineteen special stages totalling 287.11 km (178.40 mi) in competitive distance.[1]

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Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were the defending rally winners. The team they drove for in 2019, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the defending manufacturers' winners.[3] Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen were the defending winners in the WRC-2 category,[4][a] but they did not defend their titles, as they were promoted to the top class by Toyota.[5] In the WRC-3 category, Tom Kristensson and Henrik Appelskog were the reigning rally winners,[4][b] but they did not defend their titles neither, as Kristensson was promoted to the WRC-2 class by M-Sport Ford World Rally Team.[6]

Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin won the rally for the first time and their second of their season. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, successfully defended their titles.[7] In the World Rally Championship-2 category, Teemu Suninen and Mikko Markkula won the event.[8] The local crew of Emil Lindholm and Reeta Hämäläinen took their maiden victory in the World Rally Championship-3 category.[9]

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Championship standings prior to the event

Reigning World Champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia entered the round with a forty-four-point lead over Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin. Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe were third, a further six points behind. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT held a massive fifty-seven-point lead over defending manufacturers' champions Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, followed by M-Sport Ford WRT.

In the World Rally Championship-2 standings, Andreas Mikkelsen led Marco Bulacia Wilkinson by twenty-two points in the drivers' championship, with Mads Østberg in third. In the co-drivers' championship Marcelo Der Ohannesian held a six-point lead over Ola Fløene, with Torstein Eriksen in third.

In the World Rally Championship-3 standings, Yohan Rossel led Kajetan Kajetanowicz by fifteen points in the drivers' championship, with Nicolas Ciamin in third. In the co-drivers' championship Maciek Szczepaniak held a thirteen-point lead over Alexandre Coria, with Yannick Roche in third.

Entry list

The following crews entered the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, its support categories, the World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3, and privateer entries that were not registered to score points in any championship. Nine entries for the World Rally Championship are received, as were eight in the World Rally Championship-2 and fourteen in the World Rally Championship-3.

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All dates and times are EEST (UTC+3).

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World Rally Championship-2

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World Rally Championship-3

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Notes

  1. The championship was known as the World Rally Championship-2 Pro in 2019.
  2. The championship was known as the World Rally Championship-2 in 2019.
  3. Nikolay Gryazin is Russian, but he competes as a neutral competitor using the designation RAF (Russian Automobile Federation), as the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a ban on Russia competing at World Championships. The ban was implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency in response to state-sponsored doping program of Russian athletes.
  4. Konstantin Aleksandrov is Russian, but he competes as a neutral competitor using the designation RAF (Russian Automobile Federation), as the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a ban on Russia competing at World Championships. The ban was implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency in response to state-sponsored doping program of Russian athletes.
  5. Under the Sporting Regulations, each car competing in the World Rally Championship-3 is entered under the driver's name.

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