WRC Calendar 2023

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Originally Posted by Sal yet again

What sort of road miles total do you think the 3 country event in October will have? Appreciate the relative geographic closeness but an interesting choice.

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It's gonna be based in the German city Passau, look up it's location and you know ;)

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Originally Posted by ictus

It's gonna be based in the German city Passau, look up it's location and you know ;)

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Well but the start ceremony and SSS will be in Prague.

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Originally Posted by typhoon

WRC gets a lot of money from Sardinia. The event is backed by the Sardinian tourism authority with almost 1 million euro, plus 200k euros from Alghero City council and about the same money by Alghero's tourism authority. If we consider the private sponsors, you can peek also Qatar's hotels (Smeralda Holding) and you can easily understand why Sardinia can't be actually touched. Don't forget that Italian ASN's President is Angelo Sticchi Damiani, a man that has a great lobby power within the FIA. All that said to underline how Sardinia is strongly backed both on a commercial and sporting pov.

Regarding the event itself, moving the Service Park to Alghero brought a lot of people and tourists to the service park, which was a complaint from the teams in the years back in Olbia. Another "past issue" was the ferry boat cost, which is now 100% free of charge for all the teams and the spectators got advantage of it with the discounts offered by the sponsor (Grimaldi Lines) both from Genoa, Livorno and Barcelona. And Alghero-Olbia are 2 airports with plenty of EasyJet-Ryanair low-cost flights.

Generally Sardinia is a powerhouse in getting worldwide events: other than WRC they got Extreme E, Motocross MXGP, F1H2O and the Aquabike world cup.

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Rally Italia Sardegna confirmed this year for 1-4 June 2023. From my local contacts I heard that WRC will stay in Sardegna until at least the end of 2025. This is not only due to Sardegna being a powerhouse on world events but also because it partially saved the WRC's promotor ass by keeping the event ongoing during the covid years

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Originally Posted by Sergiow

Rally Italia Sardegna confirmed this year for 1-4 June 2023. From my local contacts I heard that WRC will stay in Sardegna until at least the end of 2025. This is not only due to Sardegna being a powerhouse on world events but also because it partially saved the WRC's promotor ass by keeping the event ongoing during the covid years

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Here you go: https://twitter.com/rally_d_italia/s...4cJKByzv_t4Skw

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Originally Posted by Managarium

well it takes only one rally to be canceled :D

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Like this year…no, Ypres handled it

2023. is last year for Croatia. I mean it is a last year of contract with promotor. When they signed in 2021, the contract was 1+1+1 year.
It's my home rally and of course I would like to see it in calendar for many more years, but also I am aware that there are many big rallies eager to come back to WRC.

This kind of roads ?
https://www.rally-maps.com/3-St%C3%A4dte-Rallye-2022

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Originally Posted by traxx

This kind of roads ?
https://www.rally-maps.com/3-St%C3%A4dte-Rallye-2022

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Gallery from this years ADAC 3-Städte Rallye:
https://www.ir7.at/content/fotos_bes...llye_2022.html

Was a very nice and spectacular event. Lots of action on the dirty autumn roads.

I thought Croatia signed for another few years just recently?
Replying to post a few above.

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Originally Posted by J4MIE

I thought Croatia signed for another few years just recently?
Replying to post a few above.

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There is no official info about that, not even any rumours.
In Croatia rally is not big thing.
The organizers are tight lip and when is official by FIA, then they are making an announcement.