2021_Rally_Italia_Sardegna

2021 Rally Italia Sardegna

2021 Rally Italia Sardegna

18th edition of Rally Italia Sardegna


The 2021 Rally Italia Sardegna (also known as the Rally d'Italia Sardegna 2021) was a motor racing event for rally cars that held over four days between 3 and 6 June 2021.[2] It marked the eighteenth running of the Rally Italia Sardegna. The event was the fifth round of the 2021 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. The 2021 event was based in Olbia in Sardinia and contested over twenty special stages totalling 303.10 km (188.34 mi) in competitive distance.[1]

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Dani Sordo and Carlos del Barrio were the two-time defending rally winners,[3] but del Barrio did not defend his title with Sordo as del Barrio moved to World Rally Championship-3 to co-drive with Fabrizio Zaldívar.[4] Pontus Tidemand and Patrick Barth were the defending winners in the WRC-2 category, but they did not defend their titles neither as they did not participate in the event.[5] Neither did the WRC-3 title defenders Jari Huttunen and Mikko Lukka,[6] who competed for Hyundai Motorsport in the WRC-2 class.[7]

Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia won the rally. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the manufacturer's winners.[8] Jari Huttunen and Mikko Lukka won the World Rally Championship-2 category,[9] while Yohan Rossel and Alexandre Coria won the World Rally Championship-3 category.[10]

Background

Championship standings prior to the event

Reigning World Champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia entered the round with a two-point lead over Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin. Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe were third, a further twenty points behind. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT held a thirty-seven-point lead over defending manufacturers' champions Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, followed by M-Sport Ford WRT.

In the World Rally Championship-2 standings, Andreas Mikkelsen and Ola Fløene held a nine-point lead ahead of Esapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm in the drivers' and co-drivers' standings respectively, with Marco Bulacia Wilkinson and Marcelo Der Ohannesian in third. In the teams' championship, Movisport lead Toksport WRT by fifteen points, with M-Sport Ford WRT in third.

In the World Rally Championship-3 standings, Yohan Rossel led the drivers' championship, while Maciek Szczepaniak led the co-drivers' championship. Second and third in the driver's championship were Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Nicolas Ciamin, while co-driver's championship were Yannick Roche and Alexandre Coria.

Entry list

The following crews entered the rally. The event opened to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, its support categories, the World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3, and privateer entries that were not registered to score points in any championship. Twelve entries for the World Rally Championship were received, as were twelve in the World Rally Championship-2 and sixteen in the World Rally Championship-3.

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Route

Itinerary

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Report

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World Rally Championship-2

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World Rally Championship-3

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Notes

  1. Under the Sporting Regulations, each car competing in the World Rally Championship-3 is entered under the driver's name.
  2. Nikolay Gryazin is Russian, but he competes as a neutral competitor using the designation RAF (Russian Automobile Federation), as the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a ban on Russia competing at World Championships. The ban was implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency in response to state-sponsored doping program of Russian athletes.
  3. Konstantin Aleksandrov is Russian, but he competes as a neutral competitor using the designation RAF (Russian Automobile Federation), as the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a ban on Russia competing at World Championships. The ban was implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency in response to state-sponsored doping program of Russian athletes.

References

  1. "Itinerary Rally Italia Sardegna 2021". eWRC-results.com. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
  2. "Croatia and Estonia named in 2021 WRC calendar". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 9 October 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  3. "Sunday in Italy: Sordo snatches late win". wrc.com. WRC. June 16, 2019. Retrieved June 17, 2019.
  4. Villarín, Nacho (6 December 2020). "Carlos del Barrio dejará de copilotar en 2021 a Dani Sordo" [Carlos del Barrio will stop co-driving with Dani Sordo in 2021]. marca.com (in Spanish). Marca. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  5. "Tidemand extends championship lead with WRC 2 triumph". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 11 October 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  6. "Huttunen holds on for WRC 3 victory". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 11 October 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  7. "WRC 3 Champion joins Hyundai WRC 2 Squad". Hyundai Motorsport. 12 February 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  8. "Ogier seals surprise Sardinia success". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 6 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  9. "WRC2: Huttunen holds on for win". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 6 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  10. "WRC3: Rossel strengthens championship lead". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 6 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.

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