No, it was not. The 70th anniversary event of Rally Finland 2021 was run in the beginning of October, later than it's usual spot in August. Elfyn Evans won. Arctic (WRC) Rally Finland 2021 was held in late February on the spot the Swedish Rally would have been in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Arctic_Rally_Finland). So there were tw…
No, it was not. The 70th anniversary event of Rally Finland 2021 was run in the beginning of October, later than it's usual spot in August. Elfyn Evans won. Arctic (WRC) Rally Finland 2021 was held in late February on the spot the Swedish Rally would have been in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Arctic_Rally_Finland). So there were two WRC events in Finland in 2021. To make things more confusing, there is an Arctic Rally Finland every year, this year it's a week from now, but it is a national event. It was also held last year at the same time in mid-January, but then they gave the same name also to the WRC event. 2022 WRC calendar is pretty clear on this, with the Swedish Rally taking place 24th-27th of February and Rally Finland returning to it's traditional schedule on 4th-7th of August.
I said Finland twice. I meant to say it was a replacement for Sweden. It was a WRC event. It does not matter if it was only once or annually or even if there were two events in the same country - it was a WRC event and points were earned
My original point to the Pacenotes edition was that the 2022 WRC race calendar is not going to take the competitors to "the snow-covered forests of Finland" again. It's either "the snow-covered forests of Sweden" in February, or the "sunny and mosquito-covered forests of Finland" in August. Over and out.
No, it was not. The 70th anniversary event of Rally Finland 2021 was run in the beginning of October, later than it's usual spot in August. Elfyn Evans won. Arctic (WRC) Rally Finland 2021 was held in late February on the spot the Swedish Rally would have been in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Arctic_Rally_Finland). So there were two WRC events in Finland in 2021. To make things more confusing, there is an Arctic Rally Finland every year, this year it's a week from now, but it is a national event. It was also held last year at the same time in mid-January, but then they gave the same name also to the WRC event. 2022 WRC calendar is pretty clear on this, with the Swedish Rally taking place 24th-27th of February and Rally Finland returning to it's traditional schedule on 4th-7th of August.
I said Finland twice. I meant to say it was a replacement for Sweden. It was a WRC event. It does not matter if it was only once or annually or even if there were two events in the same country - it was a WRC event and points were earned
Yes, indeed it was. For 2021.
My original point to the Pacenotes edition was that the 2022 WRC race calendar is not going to take the competitors to "the snow-covered forests of Finland" again. It's either "the snow-covered forests of Sweden" in February, or the "sunny and mosquito-covered forests of Finland" in August. Over and out.