Traditionally the WRC has factored a snow event into its calendar with Sweden the spiritual home of the winter rally, having only be absent from the schedule on four occasions since the championship’s inception in 1973.
Sweden returned to the WRC calendar this season, in a new location of Umea, 800km north east of its previous home in Karlstad, following a COVID-19 induced lay off last year.
The new-look Rally Sweden guaranteed snow conditions ticking the boxes for WRC, earning a new two-year deal which was announced at the end of the event last Sunday.
In announcing the agreement, the WRC also revealed its intentions to add further snow events to future calendars. The last time the championship experimented with two snow events was in 2007 when it ran rounds in Norway and Sweden back-to-back.
Arctic Rally Finland could be the most likely option for the WRC after adding it to the calendar last year following Sweden’s absence.
“We think a snow rally and particularly what we…
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