2021 Rally Catalunya
The 2021 Rally Catalunya (also known as the RallyRACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada 2021) was a motor racing event for rally cars that held over four days between 14 and 17 October 2021. It marked the fifty-sixth running of the Rally de Catalunya. The event was the tenth round of the 2021 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. It also hosted as the final round of the 2021 Junior World Rally Championship. The 2021 event was based in Salou in the province of Tarragona in Catalonia and was contested over seventeen special stages totalling 280.46 km (174.27 mi) in competitive distance.
| 2021 Rally Catalunya RallyRACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada 2021 | |||
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Round 11 of 12 in the 2021 World Rally Championship
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Rally Catalunya returned to the championship as a full tarmac event. | |||
| Host country | Spain | ||
| Rally base | Salou, Tarragona | ||
| Dates run | 14 – 17 October 2021 | ||
| Start location | Vilaplana, Tarragona | ||
| Finish location | Riudecanyes, Tarragona | ||
| Stages | 17 (280.46 km; 174.27 miles) | ||
| Stage surface | Tarmac | ||
| Transport distance | 1,129.83 km (702.04 miles) | ||
| Overall distance | 1,410.29 km (876.31 miles) | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Crews registered | 83 | ||
| Crews | 83 at start, 50 at finish | ||
| Overall results | |||
| Overall winner | Thierry Neuville Martijn Wydaeghe Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT 2:34:11.8 | ||
| Power Stage winner | Dani Sordo Cándido Carrera Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT 10:09.3 | ||
| Support category results | |||
| WRC-2 winner | Eric Camilli Maxime Vilmot Sports & You 2:44:01.2 | ||
| WRC-3 winner | Reeta Hämäläinen Emil Lindholm 2:44:31.9 | ||
| J-WRC winner | Sami Pajari Marko Salminen Porvoon Autopalvelu 2:58:02.5 | ||
Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the defending rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the defending manufacturers' winners. However, Gilsoul did not defend his title as Neuville changed his co-driver to Martijn Wydaeghe at the start of the season. Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen were the defending winners in the WRC-2 category, while Eric Camilli and Benjamin Veillas were the defending winners in the WRC-3 category.
Neuville successfully defended his title with his new co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, successfully defended their titles. In the World Rally Championship-2 category, Eric Camilli and Maxime Vilmot won the event, while Andreas Mikkelsen confirmed to win the WRC-2 title. In the World Rally Championship-3 category, Emil Lindholm and Reeta Hämäläinen took back-to-back victory. In the junior championship, the Finnish crew of Sami Pajari and Marko Salminen won the rally and became the junior rally champions.