If I am not mistaken the organisers also do local logistics, housing etc. for the WRC teams so they basically just have to show up. Very convenient.
The event looks like a great substitute to Rally Poland, will probably attend.
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Testing for Finland....yes, you can do that in Estonia but in general our roads have softer surface and tad bit less jumps. Road characteristics are more closer to Polish gravel roads than Finland's. But hey, I'm not complaining when 3 WRC teams show up on our roads :P
I think it just sucks that the events are run on the same weekend. Part of the drivers will still go to Autoglym. Otherwise it's just great for Estonians to have an event with WRC cars, or for anyone to have a non-WRC event with three factory WRC cars
Well, RE is part of Estonian-Latvian national cup and a valued competition so a few big names and teams should be more than sufficient.
Estonia would be the "natural" substitute of Poland. On top of that we have an estonian crew in the WRC which is fighting for the championship and rally is popular over there. There are a lot of reasons to include Estonia in the calendar. Unfortunately there are also politics and money that talks, let's see if they will talk estonian next years.
EstWRC how about Tanak winning the championship in his home rally? Would you survive that?
Umh, no, gravel and relief is more similar to Poland. Finland has more rocky gravel and stronger base, Estonia/Poland clay/sand.