[WRC] 2025 News & Rumours

[deephouse]

Could it be Spain in the fall 2026? Wasn't there news that Spain wanted to explore the possibility of switching between Canary Islands and the Mainland, Salou area? Salou has the proven and good area for rally.

The sad part is the tarmac rounds only replace tarmac ones, so we can assume that either Canary will lost a place for Croatia or they will stay and CER will be gone. Japan, have new contract until 2028 but they don't run that event in april time usualy. Maybe they will finaly put another tarmac event in the middle of season to break that gravel dominance of events, but we can just hope of that happening.

[Eli]

Could it be Spain in the fall 2026? Wasn't there news that Spain wanted to explore the possibility of switching between Canary Islands and the Mainland, Salou area? Salou has the proven and good area for rally.

Yes since the Canary Islands have a contract in place for 2025-2026 it would make sense they’d take up that slot, and then come 2027 they’d go back to Salou like it was (almost) always in October. However, it would mean the layout would still be, Tarmac event in April and then nothing in-between for 6 months…but who knows, 2027 is a long way a away, and a lot can change until then. It’s purely speculative at this point.

[Sal yet again]

Who knows. If they listen to Kalle all the events will be held in field in Tuscany over one day...