| 2021 Rally Italia Sardegna | |
| Native Name: | Rally Italia Sardegna 2021 |
| Round: | 5 |
| Season No: | 12 |
| Championship: | 2021 World Rally Championship |
| Previous Round: | 2021 Rally de Portugal |
| Next Round: | 2021 Safari Rally |
| Start: | Oschiri, Sassari |
| Finish: | Santa Teresa Gallura, Sassari |
| Rallybase: | Olbia, Sardinia |
| Startdate: | 3 |
| Enddate: | 6 June 2021 |
| Stages: | 20 |
| Stagekm: | 303.10 |
| Stagekm Note: | [1] |
| Transportkm: | 995.93 |
| Overallkm: | 1,514.07 |
| Surface: | Gravel |
| Driver1: |  Sébastien Ogier |
| Codriver1: | Julien Ingrassia |
| Team1: |  Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT |
| Time1: | 3:19:26.4 |
| Driver2: |  Jari Huttunen |
| Codriver2: | Mikko Lukka |
| Team2: |  Hyundai Motorsport N |
| Time2: | 3:28:58.1 |
| Driver3: | Yohan Rossel |
| Codriver3: | Alexandre Coria |
| Time3: | 3:30:04.1 |
| Powerstage Driver: |  Thierry Neuville |
| Powerstage Codriver: | Martijn Wydaeghe |
| Powerstage Team: | Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT |
| Powerstage Time: | 5:33.4 |
| Crewsreg: | 58 |
| Teamsstart: | 55 |
| Teamsfinish: | 40 |
The 2021 Rally Italia Sardegna (also known as the Rally d'Italia Sardegna 2021) was a motor racing event for rally cars that held over four days between 3 and 6 June 2021.[2] It marked the eighteenth running of the Rally Italia Sardegna. The event was the fifth round of the 2021 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. The 2021 event was based in Olbia in Sardinia and contested over twenty special stages totalling 303.12NaN2 in competitive distance.[1]
Dani Sordo and Carlos del Barrio were the two-time defending rally winners,[3] but del Barrio did not defend his title with Sordo as del Barrio moved to World Rally Championship-3 to co-drive with Fabrizio Zaldívar.[4] Pontus Tidemand and Patrick Barth were the defending winners in the WRC-2 category, but they did not defend their titles neither as they did not participate in the event.[5] Neither did the WRC-3 title defenders Jari Huttunen and Mikko Lukka,[6] who competed for Hyundai Motorsport in the WRC-2 class.[7]
Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia won the rally. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the manufacturer's winners.[8] Jari Huttunen and Mikko Lukka won the World Rally Championship-2 category,[9] while Yohan Rossel and Alexandre Coria won the World Rally Championship-3 category.[10]
Reigning World Champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia entered the round with a two-point lead over Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin. Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe were third, a further twenty points behind. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT held a thirty-seven-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 nine-point lead ahead of Esapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm in the drivers' and co-drivers' standings respectively, with Marco Bulacia Wilkinson and Marcelo Der Ohannesian in third. In the teams' championship, Movisport lead Toksport WRT by fifteen points, with M-Sport Ford WRT in third.
In the World Rally Championship-3 standings, Yohan Rossel led the drivers' championship, while Maciek Szczepaniak led the co-drivers' championship. Second and third in the driver's championship were Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Nicolas Ciamin, while co-driver's championship were Yannick Roche and Alexandre Coria.
The following crews entered the rally. The event opened to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, its support categories, the World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3, and privateer entries that were not registered to score points in any championship. Twelve entries for the World Rally Championship were received, as were twelve in the World Rally Championship-2 and sixteen in the World Rally Championship-3.
| 1 | Sébastien Ogier | Julien Ingrassia | Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT | Toyota Yaris WRC | |||
| 2 |  Oliver Solberg |  Aaron Johnston | Hyundai 2C Competition | nowrap | Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC | ||
| 3 | Teemu Suninen | Mikko Markkula |  M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta WRC | |||
| 6 |  Dani Sordo | Borja Rozada | Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT | Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC | |||
| 7 | nowrap | Pierre-Louis Loubet | Florian Haut-Labourdette | Hyundai 2C Competition | nowrap | Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC | |
| 8 |  Ott Tänak | Martin Järveoja | Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT | nowrap | Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC | ||
| 11 | Thierry Neuville | Martijn Wydaeghe | Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT | Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC | |||
| 18 | nowrap | Takamoto Katsuta | Daniel Barritt | nowrap | Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT | Toyota Yaris WRC | |
| 33 | Elfyn Evans | nowrap | Scott Martin | Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT | Toyota Yaris WRC | ||
| 44 | nowrap | Gus Greensmith | Stuart Loudon | M-Sport Ford WRT | nowrap | Ford Fiesta WRC | |
| 50 | Cyrille Féraud | Benoît Manzo | Cyrille Féraud | Citroën DS3 WRC | |||
| 69 | Kalle Rovanperä | nowrap | Jonne Halttunen | Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT | Toyota Yaris WRC | ||
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| 20 | nowrap |  Andreas Mikkelsen | Ola Fløene |  Toksport WRT | nowrap | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 21 | nowrap |  Marco Bulacia Wilkinson | nowrap |  Marcelo Der Ohannesian | Toksport WRT | nowrap | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | |
| 22 | Mads Østberg | Torstein Eriksen |  TRT World Rally Team | Citroën C3 Rally2 | ||||
| 23 | Adrien Fourmaux | Renaud Jamoul | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II | ||||
| 24 |  Enrico Brazzoli | Danilo Fappani | Movisport | nowrap | Škoda Fabia R5 | |||
| 26 |  Sean Johnston | Alex Kihurani | Saintéloc Junior Team | Citroën C3 Rally2 | ||||
| 27 | Ole Christian Veiby | Jonas Andersson | Hyundai Motorsport N | Hyundai i20 R5 | ||||
| 28 |  Martin Prokop | Zdeněk Jůrka | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II | ||||
| 29 | Georg Linnamäe | Tanel Kasesalu | ALM Motorsport | nowrap | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | |||
| 30 | Jari Huttunen | Mikko Lukka | Hyundai Motorsport N | Hyundai i20 R5 | ||||
| 31 | Andrea Crugnola | Pietro Ometto | Hyundai Motorsport N | Hyundai i20 R5 | ||||
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| 32 | Yohan Rossel | Alexandre Coria | Yohan Rossel | Citroën C3 Rally2 | ||
| 34 | Nicolas Ciamin | Yannick Roche | Nicolas Ciamin | Citroën C3 Rally2 | ||
| 35 |  Kajetan Kajetanowicz | Maciej Szczepaniak | Kajetan Kajetanowicz | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 36 | Egon Kaur | Silver Simm | Kaur Motorsport | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | ||
| 37 | Emil Lindholm | Reeta Hämäläinen | Emil Lindholm | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 38 | Chris Ingram | Ross Whittock | Chris Ingram | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 39 | Fabrizio Zaldívar | Carlos del Barrio | Fabrizio Zaldívar | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 40 | Mauro Miele | Luca Beltrame | Mauro Miele | Škoda Fabia R5 | ||
| 41 | Alberto Battistolli | Simone Scattolin | Alberto Battistolli | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 42 | Jan Solans | Rodrigo Sanjuan de Eusebio | Jan Solans | Citroën C3 Rally2 | ||
| 43 | Pepe López | Diego Vallejo | Pepe López | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 45 |  Alberto Heller | Marc Martí | Alberto Heller | Citroën C3 Rally2 | ||
| 46 | Armin Kremer | Ella Kremer | Armin Kremer | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | ||
| 47 | Emilio Fernández | Ruben Garcia | Emilio Fernández | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
| 48 | Pablo Biolghini | Stefano Pudda | Pablo Biolghini | Škoda Fabia R5 | ||
| 49 | Maurizio Morato | Enrico Gallinaro | Maurizio Morato | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | ||
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| 25 | Nikolay Gryazin | Konstantin Aleksandrov | Movisport | nowrap | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | |
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All dates and times are CEST (UTC+2).