| 2021 Rally Estonia | |
| Native Name: | Rally Estonia 2021 |
| Round: | 7 |
| Season No: | 12 |
| Championship: | 2021 World Rally Championship |
| Previous Round: | 2021 Safari Rally |
| Next Round: | 2021 Ypres Rally |
| Rallybase: | Tartu, Tartu County |
| Start: | Tartu, Tartu County |
| Finish: | Tartu Parish, Tartu County |
| Startdate: | 15 |
| Enddate: | 18 July 2021 |
| Stages: | 24 |
| Stagekm: | 319.38 |
| Stagekm Note: | [1] |
| Transportkm: | 933.77 |
| Overallkm: | 1,253.15 |
| Surface: | Gravel |
| Driver1: |  Kalle Rovanperä |
| Codriver1: | Jonne Halttunen |
| Team1: |  Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT |
| Time1: | 2:51:29.1 |
| Driver2: |  Andreas Mikkelsen |
| Codriver2: | Ola Fløene |
| Team2: |  Toksport WRT |
| Time2: | 3:01:59.0 |
| Driver3: | Aleksey Lukyanuk |
| Codriver3: | Yaroslav Fedorov |
| Time3: | 3:01:45.2 |
| Driverj: | Sami Pajari |
| Codriverj: | Marko Salminen |
| Teamj: | Porvoon Autopalvelu |
| Timej: | 3:19:03.2 |
| Powerstage Driver: |  Ott Tänak |
| Powerstage Codriver: | Martin Järveoja |
| Powerstage Team: |  Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT |
| Powerstage Time: | 5:52.2 |
| Crewsreg: | 49 |
| Teamsstart: | 49 |
| Teamsfinish: | 38 |
The 2021 Rally Estonia (also known as the Rally Estonia 2021) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 15 and 18 July 2021.[2] It marked the eleventh running of the Rally Estonia. The event was the seventh round of the 2021 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. It was also the third round of the 2021 Junior World Rally Championship.[3] The 2021 event was based in the town of Tartu in Tartu County and contested over twenty-four special stages totalling 319.382NaN2 in competitive distance.[1]
Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were the defending rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the defending manufacturers' winners.[4] Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen were the defending winners in the WRC-2 category.[5] In the WRC-3 category, Oliver Solberg and Aaron Johnston were the reigning rally winners,[6] but they did not defend their titles as they were promoted to higher classes by Hyundai Motorsport.[7] In the junior category, Mārtiņš Sesks and Renārs Francis were the defending winners.[8]
Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen won the rally, the first of their careers. At the age of twenty, Rovanperä became the youngest driver to win a WRC event. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the manufacturer's winners.[9] Andreas Mikkelsen and Ola Fløene won the World Rally Championship-2 category,[10] while Aleksey Lukyanuk and Yaroslav Fedorov won the World Rally Championship-3 category.[11] The Finnish crew of Sami Pajari and Marko Salminen was the winner in the junior class.[12]
Reigning World Champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia entered the round with a thirty-four-point lead over Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin. Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe were third, a further twenty-two points behind. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT held a massive fifty-nine-point lead over defending manufacturers' champions Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, followed by M-Sport Ford WRT.
In the World Rally Championship-2 standings, Andreas Mikkelsen and Ola Fløene held a two-point lead ahead of Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen in the drivers' and co-drivers' standings respectively, with Marco Bulacia Wilkinson and Marcelo Der Ohannesian in third. In the teams' championship, Movisport and Toksport WRT co-leading the championship, with M-Sport Ford WRT in third.
In the World Rally Championship-3 standings, Yohan Rossel and Alexandre Coria led drivers' and co-drivers' championship respectively. Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Maciek Szczepaniak were second, trailed by Nicolas Ciamin and Yannick Roche.
In the junior championship, Mārtiņš Sesks and Renars Francis led Sami Pajari and Marko Salminen by nine points. Jon Armstrong and Phil Hall were third, four points further back. In the Nations' standings, Latvia held a ten-point lead over Finland, with United Kingdom in third.
The following crews were set to enter the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, its support categories, the World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3, Junior World Rally Championship and privateer entries that were not registered to score points in any championship. Ten entries for the World Rally Championship were received, as were ten in the World Rally Championship-2 and fourteen in the World Rally Championship-3. A further eight crews were set to enter the Junior World Rally Championship in Ford Fiesta Rally4s.
| 20 | nowrap | Andreas Mikkelsen | Ola Fløene | Toksport WRT | nowrap | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | |
| 21 | Mads Østberg | Torstein Eriksen |  TRT World Rally Team | Citroën C3 Rally2 | |||
| 22 |  Marco Bulacia Wilkinson |  Marcelo Der Ohannesian | Toksport WRT | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | |||
| 23 |  Adrien Fourmaux |  Renaud Jamoul |  M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II | |||
| 24 | Jari Huttunen | Mikko Lukka | Hyundai Motorsport N | Hyundai i20 R5 | |||
| 25 | Nikolay Gryazin | Konstantin Aleksandrov |  Movisport | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | |||
| 26 |  Sean Johnston | Alex Kihurani | Saintéloc Junior Team | Citroën C3 Rally2 | |||
| 27 |  Oliver Solberg |  Aaron Johnston | Hyundai Motorsport N | Hyundai i20 R5 | |||
| 28 | Georg Linnamäe | James Morgan | ALM Motorsport | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | |||
| 29 | Tom Kristensson | David Arhusiander | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II | |||
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| 30 |  Kajetan Kajetanowicz | Maciej Szczepaniak | Kajetan Kajetanowicz | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 31 | Egon Kaur | Silver Simm | Kaur Motorsport | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | ||
| 32 | Fabrizio Zaldívar |  Carlos del Barrio | Fabrizio Zaldívar | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 34 | Emil Lindholm | Reeta Hämäläinen | Emil Lindholm | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 35 | Pepe López | Borja Odriozola | Pepe López | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 36 | Mikko Heikkilä | Topi Luhtinen | Mikko Heikkilä | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 37 |  Emilio Fernández | Ruben Garcia | Emilio Fernández | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 38 | Aleksey Lukyanuk | Yaroslav Fedorov | Aleksey Lukyanuk | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 39 | Raul Jeets | Andrus Toom | Raul Jeets | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 40 | Priit Koik | Kristo Tamm | Priit Koik | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II | ||
| 41 |  Vladas Jurkevičius | Aisvydas Paliukėnas | Vladas Jurkevičius | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 43 |  Rakan Al-Rashed | Antti Haapala | Rakan Al-Rashed | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | ||
| 45 | Radik Shaymiev | Maxim Tsvetkov | Radik Shaymiev | Hyundai i20 R5 | ||
| 46 | Miguel Díaz-Aboitiz | Diego Sanjuan de Eusebio | Miguel Díaz-Aboitiz | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
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| 47 | Mārtiņš Sesks | Renārs Francis | LMT Autosporta Akademija | Ford Fiesta Rally4 | ||
| 48 | Sami Pajari | Marko Salminen | Porvoon Autopalvelu | Ford Fiesta Rally4 | ||
| 49 | Jon Armstrong | Phil Hall | Jon Armstrong | Ford Fiesta Rally4 | ||
| 50 |  Martin Koči |  Petr Těšínský | Styllex Motorsport | Ford Fiesta Rally4 | ||
| 51 | Lauri Joona | Mikael Korhonen | Team Flying Finn | Ford Fiesta Rally4 | ||
| 52 | Robert Virves | Sander Pruul | Autosport Team Estonia | Ford Fiesta Rally4 | ||
| 53 | Raul Badiu | Rareș Fetean | Raul Badiu | Ford Fiesta Rally4 | ||
| 54 | William Creighton | Liam Regan | Motorsport Ireland Rally Academy | Ford Fiesta Rally4 | ||
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| 56 |  Molly Taylor | Sebastian Marshall | M-Sport Poland | Ford Fiesta Rally3 | ||
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All dates and times are EEST (UTC+3).