[WRC] News & Rumours 2021

[AnttiL]

6 gravel rallies,5 asphalt,1 snow.

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.

[dimviii]

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.

big possibilities to have one,if Acropolis will happen.

[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.

[EstWRC]

i really like this calendar, and i will love it when they add Acropolis instead of Safari.

3 fast rallies which i have always wanted and also more tarmac rounds which i also have talked for years.

[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?

[AnttiL]

https://twitter.com/thierryneuville/...97206762356736

Neuville changes co-driver to Martijn Wydaeghe. Previously co-driven for Guillaume de Mevius, Tamara Molinaro and Chewon Lim.

[Jewy46]

https://twitter.com/thierryneuville/...97206762356736

Neuville changes co-driver to Martijn Wydaeghe. Previously co-driven for Guillaume de Mevius, Tamara Molinaro and Chewon Lim.

Big surprise! And so close to the first event.

Would make you wonder was this a quick decision and did something happen

[EstWRC]

what the? that came out of nowhere

anybody knows why?

for MOnte he did all the tests with Gilsoul IMO

[Francis44]

https://twitter.com/thierryneuville/...97206762356736

Neuville changes co-driver to Martijn Wydaeghe. Previously co-driven for Guillaume de Mevius, Tamara Molinaro and Chewon Lim.

Quite surprising. On Facebook he thanks Nicolas for 10 years of hard work, so it looks like he is not coming back.

[TypeR]

I hope it's not because of the slow time of the blindfolded i30N challenge between the cones...