2021 Acropolis Rally
The 2021 Acropolis Rally (also known as the EKO Acropolis Rally of Gods 2021) was a motor racing event for rally cars that held over four days between 9 and 12 September 2021. It marked the sixty-fifth running of the Acropolis Rally. The event was the ninth round of the 2021 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. The 2021 event was based in the town of Lamia in Central Greece and contested over fifteen special stages totalling 292.19 km (181.56 mi) in competitive distance.
| 2021 Acropolis Rally EKO Acropolis Rally of Gods 2021 | |||
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Round 9 of 12 in the 2021 World Rally Championship
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The Acropolis Rally of Greece returned to the championship after eight years. | |||
| Host country | Greece | ||
| Rally base | Lamia, Central Greece | ||
| Dates run | 9 – 12 September 2021 | ||
| Start location | Athens, Attica | ||
| Finish location | Lamia, Central Greece | ||
| Stages | 15 (292.19 km; 181.56 miles) | ||
| Stage surface | Gravel | ||
| Transport distance | 993.66 km (617.43 miles) | ||
| Overall distance | 1,253.15 km (778.67 miles) | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Crews registered | 55 | ||
| Crews | 48 at start, 43 at finish | ||
| Overall results | |||
| Overall winner | Kalle Rovanperä Jonne Halttunen Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 3:28:24.6 | ||
| Power Stage winner | Kalle Rovanperä Jonne Halttunen Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 8:34.8 | ||
| Support category results | |||
| WRC-2 winner | Andreas Mikkelsen Elliott Edmondson Toksport WRT 3:37:27.1 | ||
| WRC-3 winner | Kajetan Kajetanowicz Maciej Szczepaniak 3:39:48.2 | ||
Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila were the reigning rally winners. However, they did not defend their titles as Latvala retired from the competition. Volkswagen Motorsport, the team they drove for in 2013, when Acropolis Rally held a World Rally Championship event last time, were the defending manufacturers' winners, but they did not defend their title neither when Volkswagen retired from the championship at the end of 2016. Robert Kubica and Maciek Baran were the reigning rally winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category, but they did not defend their titles since Kubica was competing the 2021 Italian Grand Prix.
Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen were the overall rally winners. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the manufacturer's winners. In the World Rally Championship-2 category, Andreas Mikkelsen won the class with his new co-driver Elliott Edmondson. In the World Rally Championship-3 category, Yohan Rossel and Alexandre Coria finished first in the class. However, they were disqualified from the results after the rally as the front subframe on their Citroën C3 Rally2 was found to be overweight during the post-event scrutineering. The polish crew of Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Maciej Szczepaniak subsequently became the WRC-3 winners.