2021 ERC News and Rumors

[Sulland]

Maybe Huttunen will try to win ERC for Hyundai, and fill with some WRC runs in wrc and wrc2/3?

[dimviii]

Huttunen with Luky would be perfect!

[Jarek Z]

This is a list of all ERC1-J 2020 competitors.

Munster, Solberg, Llarena, Cais, Marczyk, Dinkel, Devine, Lindholm, Tempestini, Batistolli, Kreim

Tell me which one will stay and switch to Rally3 car? IMHO probably noone. So what will be left of a very competitive championship? A ruin which has to start from zero. Is that worth of making Malcolm Wilson happy?

You are right. Maybe someone read your words, because it seems that those drivers are going to get some kind of a "compensation" from Eurosport Events:
https://www.fiaerc.com/incentive-pla...n-rally2-cars/

[Andre Oliveira]

Same news of first arcticle. Thet splited the infos. Soon we get more info about that compensation.

[dimviii]

any news about Luky?

[Andre Oliveira]

FIA Regional Rally Championships Regs

https://www.fia.com/sites/default/fi...2020-12-17.pdf

[Fast Eddie WRC]

can definitely be and sure is at least a part, but for me main reason is trying to convince other manu to commit to rally 3 and not repeatthe bad result of r4 kit, giving them a concrete horizon on why build a rally3 car. r5 was initially more or less the same scheme. everyone but m-sport waited to see if the investment was worth.

This sounds spot-on.

The FIA want a full 'ladder' and M-Sport have been the first to commit and create a Rally 3, thus they deserve the reward. Other Manus are also going to be encouraged to join in.

The next-gen of young driver's will also go this route. This is a future long-term plan. The current Rally2 guys are not the target.

[Luis Pacheco]

Azores could be postponed.

" The uncertainty regarding the evolution of the pandemic depends on the holding of the Azores Rally next year, scheduled for the 25th, 26th and 27th of March.
Without public there is no Rallye.
Who says it is Rui Moniz, president of Grupo Desportivo Comercial.
If that cannot happen, the 2021 race will be canceled or postponed, just as it was this year.
Rui Moniz understands that there are conditions for this to happen, in conjunction with health authorities.
The defense of the president of Desportivo Comercial, after having met with the President of the Government. "

(Antena 1 Açores newspaper from 18h on the 21st of December 2020)

[PLuto]

Azores could be postponed.

" The uncertainty regarding the evolution of the pandemic depends on the holding of the Azores Rally next year, scheduled for the 25th, 26th and 27th of March.
Without public there is no Rallye.
Who says it is Rui Moniz, president of Grupo Desportivo Comercial.
If that cannot happen, the 2021 race will be canceled or postponed, just as it was this year.
Rui Moniz understands that there are conditions for this to happen, in conjunction with health authorities.
The defense of the president of Desportivo Comercial, after having met with the President of the Government. "

(Antena 1 Açores newspaper from 18h on the 21st of December 2020)

I think this is no surprise. All events could be postponed. Or cancelled. In ERC, in WRC, in national championships... Nobody knows, what will happen next week, so difficult to predict, what will happen in 3-4 months. Lets wait how will the situation evolve.

[Andre Oliveira]

Azores doesn’t looking good. It seems that it is out of national championship calendar.