[WRC] Arctic Rally 2021

[AnttiL]

https://twitter.com/HartusvuoriWRC/s...904897/photo/1

Entry list

In the end only 13 WRC cars (the normal factory cars, plus Bertelli, Tuohino, Loubet, Solberg, Katsuta)

In WRC2 you have Prokop on second M-Sport car and Georg Linnamäe on a VW Polo entered by ALM Motorsport. Otherwise quite like expected. No Östberg though.

[Japé]

Only 3 drivers from Sweden which is not a lot compared to Rally Sweden.

[RS]

Rather surprised about Ostberg, he did a perfect job for Citroen last year.

[AnttiL]

Only 3 drivers from Sweden which is not a lot compared to Rally Sweden.

For obvious reasons...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Strange choice of rally for Bertelli to make his comeback. He didnt have a good run in Sweden 2017 or 2019 either.

Still good to see another WRC car driven in the last season they're allowed.

[Mirek]

Strange choice of rally for Bertelli to make his comeback. He didnt have a good run in Sweden 2017 or 2019 either.

Bertelli hardly drives for other reason than fun. I guess it's fun driving on snow.

[mknight]

Too bad with Østberg.

Still should be a nice WRC2 battle between Lappi, Mikkelsen and Huttunen. Have to say it's very hard to predict how they do compared to one another, each have pros and cons:
Lappi
+ does well on very fast rallies
+ drove R5 Fabia on snow
- last time drove R5 ages ago

Mikkelsen
+ Drives R5 a lot in last months, with a lot of testing
+- used to be a bit weak on very fast rallies, but seemingly got better
- never drove R5 on snow rally

Huttunen
+ Lot of R5 driving, some snow experience with it (yes Sweden last year did have some snow, with Fabia year before)
+- I20 R5 seems to do good on fast rallies lately, maybe not so good if it gets very soft or rutted
- Comparatively lot less experience than the other 2


I don't expect much of Fourmaux here, behind these 3 would be quite good. Gryazin might surprise with Polo.

[AnttiL]

Bertelli hardly drives for other reason than fun. I guess it's fun driving on snow.

The consequences of crashing are not that severe in Finland 2016 he went to the hospital...

[AnttiL]

https://itgetsfasternow.com/2021/02/...ic-rally-2021/

Route preview. Which stage will be the fastest one? Which stage includes driving on frozen swamp? When was the last time the shortest stage of a WRC event was longer than 19.91 km?

[dimviii]

Why Katsuta has high hopes for incredible Arctic Rally

https://rallyinsight.com/2021/02/11/...c-rally-hopes/