2021 FIA World Rally Championship Acropolis Rally Greece – Preview

This can even be the field collection’ first discuss over with to Greece since 2013. Sooner than that, the Acropolis Rally had been a fixture nearly yearly since the inaugural season in 1973, and is identified for its incredibly punishing terrain, combining rocky gravel phases with high temperatures.

Sébastien Ogier won the Acropolis Rally in 2011 and takes a championship lead of 38 functions into this year’s match. His Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans, in 2nd web page online, has been joined on the identical collection of functions by Thierry Neuville following the Hyundai driver’s amazing house victory at the outdated round, Ypres Rally Belgium. Kalle Rovanperä (Toyota), Ott Tänak (Hyundai) and Takamoto Katsuta (Toyota) observe in the standings and in the dual carriageway expose for the opening day in Greece.

Dani Sordo returns to motion in the third factory Hyundai, with Pierre-Louis Loubet also entered with a i20 Coupé WRC below the 2C Compétition banner. Gus Greensmith and Adrien Fourmaux will lead the M-Sport attack, with Greek driver Jourdan Serderidis returning to a Ford Fiesta WRC to contest his house match.

Nine autos are entered into FIA WRC2 in Greece, with championship leader Andreas Mikkelsen in a Toksport-entered Škoda Fabia Evo to head head-to-head with his nearest rivals, his teammate Marco Bulacia and TRT WRT’s Mads Østberg in a Citroën C3. Movisport’s Nikolay Gryazin switches to a Ford Fiesta Rally2 for this match. 

Eighteen drivers are entered in FIA WRC3, including functions leader Yohan Rossel from France and his chief rival Kajetan Kajetanowicz from Poland – twice an Acropolis Rally winner in the FIA European Rally Championship. Lambros Athanassoulas, a class winner on the match relief in 2009, leads the native contingent

THE 2021 ROUTE

After Shakedown on Thursday morning shut to the Service Park in Lamia, the rally will inaugurate up in the capital metropolis of Athens with a ceremonial inaugurate up beneath the notorious Acropolis and a gap dual carriageway stage around Syntagma Sq.. On Friday, the rally moves west to the Peloponnese peninsula. Two passes of Aghii Theodori are separated by a single stage shut to Loutraki, the set there can even be a tyre-fitting zone. The Thiva and Elatia tests will then be flee on the approach relief to Lamia. Saturday is the longest day of the match and functions six phases in complete. An initial loop of four phases is split in half by a tyre-fitting zone in Itea, earlier than two of these tests – Pavliani and Eleftherohori – are repeated following carrier in Lamia. Sunday functions the longest stage of the rally, the 33.2-kilometre Pyrgos between two runs of the eminent Tarzan test – the shorter 2nd glide will attend because the rally-ending Power Stage.

RALLY DATA

MEDIA ACCREDITATION

Media accreditation and attendance is precisely managed with modified phrases below COVID-19 guidelines. All attendees are required to conform with the COVID protocol as outlined by the match organisers (please consult with Bulletin 1 and 2 on the Digital Witness Board and in disclose the COVID Delegate notes).

Media accreditation in Lamia

Region:

Media accreditation can even simply nonetheless be nonetheless for my half by current Stream Holders at the Media Accreditation Desk, positioned at in the Media Center constructing, Service Park at the National Exchange Wonderful in Lamia. GPS: N38°53.422 E22°26.929

Opening hours:

Monday 6 September: 14: 00 – 19: 00
Tuesday 7 September: 08: 00 – 21: 00
Wednesday 8 September: 08: 00 – 20: 00
Thursday 9 September: 08h00 – 20: 00
Friday 10 September: 08: 00 – 20: 00

Media accreditation in Athens

Media accreditation can even be doubtless in Athens on Thursday 9 September handiest proper earlier than ceremonial inaugurate up.

Region:

Motorsport Greece – Olympic Athletic Center of Athens 
1 Spyros Louis dual carriageway, 151 23 Maroussi
Entrance 6 (= ΣΤ in Greek letters on predominant entrance).
GPS: https://goo.gl/maps/iYSKvEyQUM69mTXS6

Opening hours: 

Monday 6 September: 10: 00 – 20: 00
Tuesday 7 September: 10: 00 – 20: 00
Wednesday 8 September: 10: 00 – 20: 00
Thursday 9 September: 14: 30 to 16: 00

2021 ACROPOLIS RALLY GREECE TIMETABLE & MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES