Quote Originally Posted by Eli View Post
Østberg already said last month I think (does feel like a long time since Estonia), that he'll go to Greece, Finland & Spain so obviously that meant skipping Ypres. I'm also guessing they might already know that Ypres definitely won't be in next year's calendar so they rather skip this one and save some of their budget for another event.
Yes, but as I wrote he picked Greece (which is on gravel and he drove there before) over Ypres which is on tarmac that he is historically not so good at.

As a sidenote I didn't see he plans Spain, the WRC2 rules are a bit unclear to me on the "overseas" rally requirement. It seems that it might only apply to those that compete in WRC2 "teams" competition in which case it wouldn't apply to Østberg.

Picking Spain over Ypres is easy since he has driven in Spain multiple times.