(WRC) Rally Sweden 2021

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Originally Posted by abcrally

Plans have been ongoing in Rovaniemi, Finland already two weeks or so for the replacement event. First route version is ready with 16 stages.

Still many matters to be solved like budget and Finland's Covid situation.

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And do they plan on running event on same date or later date I wounder?

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Originally Posted by DocMS

And do they plan on running event on same date or later date I wounder?

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I think the plan is to do the same weekend as original Sweden.

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Originally Posted by DocMS

And do they plan on running event on same date or later date I wounder?

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Same date with what ?

ArcticRally 2021 is one week before Monte so it´s 100% sure it isn´t WRC event.

What they are now planning would be "end of february"

There has been talk of both moving the event to February, but also of running two events in Rovaniemi, one national and one WRC, the latter in February.

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Last weekend of february according to local media.
Would also make sense as the daylight at end of February is already significant longer than on usual Arctic Rally in January.

https://yle.fi/urheilu/3-11699081

Kai Tarkiainen (clerk of the course of Rally Finland) says they've been asked to arrange a snow rally and now they're trying to figure out whether they can do it. Time is limited and lots of bureaucracy to be done. Tarkiainen doesn't want to mention any cities or areas where the rally would be arranged. So it's not automatically Rovaniemi.

Really hope that you Finnish guys can make it happen.. If so, there will be many WRC cars in Arctic Lapland entry :)

What about Rally in Joensuu region or wherever that Itäralli was earlier? Didnt that really get some praise? That incase Rovaniemi cant happen ?

Itäralli would be awesome indeed, rollercoaster roads

https://www.rallit.fi/pystytaanko-su...an-yksi-paiva/

Kai Tarkiainen interviewed again, saying there's not a lot of money within AKK (the Finnish ASN who arranges Rally Finland) because of last summer. They have to look at how the permissions from the authorities start going on before they make any decisions.

And the last paragraph confirms that gravel Rally Finland will be held in Jyväskylä if only the circumstances allow it, whether there's a snow event in Finland or not.

I'd say it is not possible to make winter rally event in Joensuu (Itärally) as that is not scheduled to run this winter. There is not enough time to make an event from scratch.