2021_Rally_de_Espana

2021 Rally Catalunya

2021 Rally Catalunya

56th edition of Rally de Catalunya


The 2021 Rally Catalunya (also known as the RallyRACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada 2021) was a motor racing event for rally cars that held over four days between 14 and 17 October 2021.[2] It marked the fifty-sixth running of the Rally de Catalunya. The event was the tenth round of the 2021 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. It also hosted as the final round of the 2021 Junior World Rally Championship.[3] The 2021 event was based in Salou in the province of Tarragona in Catalonia and was contested over seventeen special stages totalling 280.46 km (174.27 mi) in competitive distance.[1]

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Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the defending rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the defending manufacturers' winners.[4] However, Gilsoul did not defend his title as Neuville changed his co-driver to Martijn Wydaeghe at the start of the season.[5] Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen were the defending winners in the WRC-2 category,[lower-alpha 1] while Eric Camilli and Benjamin Veillas were the defending winners in the WRC-3 category.[lower-alpha 2][6]

Neuville successfully defended his title with his new co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, successfully defended their titles.[7] In the World Rally Championship-2 category, Eric Camilli and Maxime Vilmot won the event, while Andreas Mikkelsen confirmed to win the WRC-2 title.[8] In the World Rally Championship-3 category, Emil Lindholm and Reeta Hämäläinen took back-to-back victory.[9] In the junior championship, the Finnish crew of Sami Pajari and Marko Salminen won the rally and became the junior rally champions.[10]

Background

Championship standings prior to the event

Reigning World Champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia entered the round with a twenty-four-point lead over Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin. Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe were third, a further thirty-six points behind. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT held a massive sixty-one-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 Mads Østberg by eight points in the drivers' championship, with Marco Bulacia Wilkinson in third. In the co-drivers' championship Torstein Eriksen held a fourteen-point lead over Marcelo Der Ohannesian, with Ola Fløene in third.

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

In the junior championship, Sami Pajari and Marko Salminen led Jon Armstrong and Phil Hall by three points. Mārtiņš Sesks and Renars Francis were third, eleven points further back. In the Nations' standings, Finland held an eight-point lead over United Kingdom and Latvia.

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. Twelve entries for the World Rally Championship were received, as were eight in the World Rally Championship-2 and fifteen in the World Rally Championship-3. A further six crews entered the Junior World Rally Championship in Ford Fiesta Rally4s.

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Route

Itinerary

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Report

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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. Under the Sporting Regulations, each car competing in the World Rally Championship-3 is entered under the driver's name.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Gryazin and Aleksandrov are competing only for the Teams' Championship points.

References

  1. "Itinerary RallyRACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada 2021". eWRC-results.com. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  2. "Croatia and Estonia named in 2021 WRC calendar". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 9 October 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  3. "Five rounds named in junior WRC calendar". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 28 January 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  4. "Sunday in Spain: Tänak takes WRC title". wrc.com. WRC. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  5. "Neuville parts ways with Gilsoul in shock move". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  6. "Sunday in WRC 2: Heartbreak for Loubet". wrc.com. WRC. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  7. "Neuville wins in Spain as title fights go to final round". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 17 October 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  8. "WRC2: Camilli clinches victory as Mikkelsen takes". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 17 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  9. "WRC3: Lindholm secures Spain win". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 17 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  10. "Pajari crowned FIA Junior WRC champion". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 17 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.

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