The route of the 2021 Monte-Carlo Rally is revealed

Le Rally Monte Carlo 2021, which will be contested from January 21 to 24 as the expected opening of the World Rally Championship, was presented this Friday and will offer a route 85% modified compared to the previous edition.

Still structured around Gap (Hautes-Alpes) for the first stages, this route will offer, after the usual shakedown of Gap (3,35 km), two special stages on Thursday evening as is tradition.

Saint-Disdier – Corps (20,58 km) and Saint-Maurice – Saint-Bonnet (20,84 km) will thus be on the program with the usual possible pitfalls that this type of nighttime ES can contain.

Friday will include several new features with the new sections against the clock of Aspremont – La Bâtie-des-Fonts (19,72 km), Chalancon – Gumiane (21,69 km) and Montauban-sur-l’Ouvèze – Villebois- les-Pins (22,44 km). Note that the connections will be substantial between each special.

On Saturday, the Saint-Clément – ​​Freissinières special (20,68 km), contested this year during Friday, will return before a passage in Saint-Apollinaire – Embrun (21,43 km), then a second passage in Saint-Clément – ​​Freissinières. The end of the day will pass by the known route of La Bréole – Quellenet (18,37 km) before returning to the Principality, without assistance.

Le Col de Turini will indeed be there on Sunday January 24, with a special design, once again unpublished, between La Maïris (coming from Peira Cava) and Moulinet over 16,70 km.

The ES Col Saint-Jean – Col de l'Orme (13,10 km) will also be new, a second loop including these two ES following in the wake, the second passage in Col Saint-Jean – Col de l'Orme serving as Power Stage.

A course largely reworked to designate who will succeed on the list of winners Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul, winners in 2020 with Hyundai Motorsport.