2021 Croatia Rally

2021 Croatia Rally
Rally Croatia 2021
Round 3 of 12 in the 2021 World Rally Championship
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Croatia became the 34th country to host a World Rally Championship round.
Host country Croatia
Rally baseZagreb, City of Zagreb Region
Dates run22 – 25 April 2021
Start locationSamobor, Zagreb County
Finish locationKumrovec, Krapina-Zagorje
Stages20 (300.32 km; 186.61 miles)[1]
Stage surfaceTarmac
Transport distance979.55 km (608.66 miles)
Overall distance1,279.87 km (795.27 miles)
Statistics
Crews registered68
Crews65 at start, 55 at finish
Overall results
Overall winnerFrance Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia
Japan Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT
2:51:22.9
Power Stage winnerFrance Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia
Japan Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT
8:14.0
Support category results
WRC-2 winnerNorway Mads Østberg
Norway Torstein Eriksen
Hungary TRT World Rally Team
3:01:23.7
WRC-3 winnerPoland Kajetan Kajetanowicz
Poland Maciej Szczepaniak
3:03:23.8
J-WRC winnerUnited Kingdom Jon Armstrong
United Kingdom 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]

  1. ^ a b "WRC CR2021 – Overview rally maps" (PDF). rally-croatia.com. Croatia Rally. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Croatia and Estonia named in 2021 WRC calendar". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 9 October 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Five rounds named in junior WRC calendar". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 28 January 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Ogier clinches stunning Croatia Rally win in nail-biting finale". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 25 April 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  5. ^ "WRC2: Østberg makes dream return". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 25 April 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  6. ^ "WRC3: Kajetanowicz arrives in style". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 25 April 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Junior WRC: Armstrong seals maiden victory". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 25 April 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2021.