[WRC] News & Rumours 2021

[BleAivano]

New host town for Sweden;
https://twitter.com/OfficialWRC/stat...28312681435143

Umeå is good choice IMO, relatively big city with good transportation connections (train, airplane and by road as well as a ferry to Vasa in Finland) and should be able to offer
a fairly good amount of hotel rooms. The area around Vännäs west of Umeå have hosted many successful rounds in the Swedish rally championship.
The disadvantage is the distance from South East Norway with the Oslo-Hamar region.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/va...ttas-till-umea
https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/jus...k-gar-i-graven

Two stages with Ekström from last year's SM-round in Umeå. Some of them will surely be used in next year's WRC round.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHmYBlAA8Ms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UPVtG00rrQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qBR1BDIlm8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXqLiInMWBI

[Sulland]

Looking forward to the new stages in Sweden.
If Corona is under control by then, maybe I will go to the new round in Mid-Sweden!

[Rallyper]

Hotelprices in Umeå went crazy for the expected dates of rally, just an hour after official.

[SubaruNorway]

If they start to take advantage of the event like they did in Estonia last year with insane prices I will miss it for sure, enough other events that will be easier and cheaper to travel to. Even I live in Norway total travel time to Jyväskylä for example is about 4 hours less than Umeå.

[bomber21]

Mikkelsen would like to drive for M-Sport in 2022
https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2021/wrc...-m-sport-ford/

[DocMS]

Hotelprices in Umeå went crazy for the expected dates of rally, just an hour after official.

Absolute joke some of the prices.

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[lmmjvss]

Wait.. WHAT??? 19k euros?????????????????? Five nights????
Dude... in live in south america and our minimum wage (converting to euros) is 2.4k euros.

>> per year!!!!

I'd have to work for yeeeeears to spend 5 nights on that hotel hahaha
This is just crazy. Hope its just a late april's fool prank.

[ictus]

Absolute joke some of the prices.

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I take it you found the most expensive one... Scandinavian prices were allways higher than most other european countries. And You do know the shown price is for 8 adults? I am also guessing breakfast and dinner are included, so for a fancy 4 star hotel....

[cali]

I take it you found the most expensive one... Scandinavian prices were allways higher than most other european countries. And You do know the shown price is for 8 adults? I am also guessing breakfast and dinner are included, so for a fancy 4 star hotel....

Well it's 2430 €/person making it 486 €/night which still is a quite expensive

Fortunately there will be cheaper ways as was in Rally Estonia when all the expensive offers got the coverage but there was a lot of affordable or cheaper ways.

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[DocMS]

I take it you found the most expensive one... Scandinavian prices were allways higher than most other european countries. And You do know the shown price is for 8 adults? I am also guessing breakfast and dinner are included, so for a fancy 4 star hotel....

This may be one of the more expensive ones yes and it's only for bed & breakfast. It's 8 Adults as that is how many in my group. The same hotel is €14,000 cheaper for 5 nights outside of Rally week so my point is they are trying to be extortionate

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