2020 Rally Estonia


The 2020 Rally Estonia is a motor racing event for rally cars that is set to hold over three days between 4 and 6 September 2020. It marks the tenth running of Rally Estonia and is the fourth round of the 2020 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. The 2020 event is based in the town of Tartu, Tartu County and consists of seventeen special stages. The rally covers a total competitive distance of.

Background

Championship standings prior to the event

Six-time world champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia enter the round with an eight-point lead over Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin.
Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul are third, a further twelve points behind. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT hold a twenty-one-point lead over defending manufacturers' champions Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, following by M-Sport Ford WRT.
In the World Rally Championship-2 standings, Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen hold a nine-point lead ahead of Nikolay Gryazin and Yaroslav Fedorov in the drivers' and co-drivers' standings respectively, with Pontus Tidemand and Patrick Barth in third. In the manufacturer' championship, Hyundai Motorsport N lead M-Sport Ford WRT by twenty-two points. PH-Sport sit in third, a slender two points behind.
In the World Rally Championship-3 standings, the crew of Eric Camilli and François-Xavier Buresi, Jari Huttunen and Mikko Lukka, and Marco Bulacia Wilkinson and Giovanni Bernacchini all hold twenty-five points in the standings.

Schedule changes and event inclusion

Following the impact of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic on the championship, a number of events were cancelled or postponed indefinitely for health and safety grounds, with Rally Mexico abridged to give time for crews to head home due to lockdowns being implemented across the world. It was then announced in 2 July 2020 that the season would return with an updated calendar, with Rally Estonia hosting the resuming round between 4 to 6 September. The country will become the thirty-third nation to stage a championship round in the WRC.

Route

The rally features a short format schedule, which lasts only three days. This leads to the change of road order rules—Saturday's first loop would start as championship order, while the second loop would revert to the standard reversed order, which usually comes into effect on the second leg.

Itinerary

All dates and times are EEST.