2021 Croatia Rally Rally Croatia 2021 | |||
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Round 3 of 12 in the 2021 World Rally Championship
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Host country | Croatia | ||
Rally base | Zagreb, City of Zagreb Region | ||
Dates run | 22 – 25 April 2021 | ||
Start location | Samobor, Zagreb County | ||
Finish location | Kumrovec, Krapina-Zagorje | ||
Stages | 20 (300.32 km; 186.61 miles)[1] | ||
Stage surface | Tarmac | ||
Transport distance | 979.55 km (608.66 miles) | ||
Overall distance | 1,279.87 km (795.27 miles) | ||
Statistics | |||
Crews registered | 68 | ||
Crews | 65 at start, 55 at finish | ||
Overall results | |||
Overall winner | Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 2:51:22.9 | ||
Power Stage winner | Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 8:14.0 | ||
Support category results | |||
WRC-2 winner | Mads Østberg Torstein Eriksen TRT World Rally Team 3:01:23.7 | ||
WRC-3 winner | Kajetan Kajetanowicz Maciej Szczepaniak 3:03:23.8 | ||
J-WRC winner | Jon Armstrong Phil Hall 3:15:07.6 |
The 2021 Croatia Rally (also known as the Rally Croatia 2021) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 22 and 25 April 2021.[2] It marked the forty-fifth running of the Croatia Rally, and the first time the event has been run as a round of the World Rally Championship. The event was the third round of the 2021 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. It was also the first round of the 2021 Junior World Rally Championship.[3] The 2021 event was based in Zagreb in the City of Zagreb Region and was contested over twenty special stages totalling 300.32 km (186.61 mi) in competitive distance.[1]
Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia won the rally with a 0.6-second advantage over teammate Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin, which was the third closest winning margin overall after the 2011 Jordan Rally and the 2007 Rally New Zealand.[4] Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen won the World Rally Championship-2 category,[5] while Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Maciej Szczepaniak won the World Rally Championship-3 category.[6] The British crew of Jon Armstrong and Phil Hall was the winner in the junior class.[7]