2020 Rally Finland | |
Native Name: | 70. Neste Rally Finland |
Championship: | 2020 World Rally Championship |
Rallybase: | Jyväskylä, Keski-Suomi |
Start: | Jyväskylä, Keski-Suomi |
Finish: | Jyväskylä, Keski-Suomi |
Startdate: | Scheduled for 6–9 August 2020 |
Stages: | 24 |
Stagekm: | 321.87 |
Stagekm Note: | [1] |
Surface: | Gravel |
Cancel1: | Rally |
Reason1: | COVID-19 pandemic |
The 2020 Rally Finland (also known as the Neste Rally Finland 2020) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was scheduled to be held over four days between 6 and 9 August 2020,[2] but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] It was set to mark the seventieth running of Rally Finland and planned to be the eighth round of the 2020 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. It was also planned to run as the third round of the 2020 Junior World Rally Championship. The 2020 event was scheduled to be based in Jyväskylä in Keski-Suomi and consisted of twenty-four special stages covering a total competitive distance of 321.872NaN2.[1]
Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were the defending rally winners. The team they drove for in 2019, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the defending manufacturers' winners.[4] Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen were the defending winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category,[5] but they would not defend their titles as they were promoted to the higher class.[6] In the World Rally Championship-3 category, Nikolay Gryazin and Yaroslav Fedorov were the reigning rally winners,[5] but they would not defend their titles either as they were promoted to WRC-2 class. Tom Kristensson and Henrik Appelskog were the reigning rally winners in the Junior World Rally Championship.[7]
All dates and times are EEST (UTC+3).