[WRC] News & Rumours 2021

[Eli]

1 fast snow
2 fast gravel
3 mid-speed technical gravel
1 fast but rough gravel
1 snow/tarmac
4 pure tarmac

A slow technical gravel rally like Turkey is missing altogether although Sardegna has become slower and slower in the last years. And Safari is a bit of an oddball there.

A- at least we're having more tarmac rounds than last year (even if Japan will get the boot which hopefully it won't)
B- we still don't know if Safari will even go ahead and if it doesn't we still don't know which rally will replace it, who knows maybe the FIA will put Monza there instead...
C- I truly hope we'll see more events than last year, fingers crossed.

[AnttiL]

A- at least we're having more tarmac rounds than last year (even if Japan will get the boot which hopefully it won't)
B- we still don't know if Safari will even go ahead and if it doesn't we still don't know which rally will replace it, who knows maybe the FIA will put Monza there instead...
C- I truly hope we'll see more events than last year, fingers crossed.

I didn't make any assumptions of future replacements.

Whether it's Acropolis or Safari, it will be something different to the calendar. Having both Turkey and Acropolis would have been too much of the slow stuff on a 12-round calendar.

Croatia is a big mystery but I would claim Japan and Catalunya have quite similar fast-flowing mountain/countryside roads with good surface. Meanwhile, Ypres is a completely different character with flat surface, ditches and 90 junctions. Maybe Croatia would have some broken tarmac?