has been confirmed news advanced by AS last October 20. The calendar for the World Rally Championship for 2023 has finally been published, and there will be no scoring test in Spain. There will be 13 appointments, among which the return of Mexico and Chile stands out, and the incorporation of a new sleeve in Central Europe. Nothing from Arabia, and also the Ypres Rally in Belgium and the one in New Zealand fall.
The calendar for 2023 has been made to wait. The discrepancies between the different parties involved, the International Automobile Federation, promoter and brands, have forced this long wait. And unfortunately, next season there will be no World Cup rally in Spain. Three new ones enter and three leave.
The season will start as is tradition in the Monte Carlo Rally in January, to give way to the winter event par excellence, Sweden, in February and the return to Mexico in March. Croatia, Portugal and Italy will precede the challenge of Africa, the Kenya Safari Rally, which will give way to the fast roads of Estonia and Finland in summer. On the way back he touches the hardness of the Greek Acropolis and Chile, before facing the final sprint on asphalt in Central Europe and Japan.
If it has taken so long, it is because of the various controversies over some tests. An attempt was made to put Arabia with a ‘horsehorn’ and in the end it has not been achieved. There were also many dissenting voices from the event in Central Europe, an event that will visit Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria. There were complaints about the inclusion of Chile instead of Argentina, a test with greater tradition and more loved by the World Cup colony. Lastly, the Japan Rally has been on the brink of safety failures this year.
World Rally Championship 2023
January 19 to 22: Monte Carlo Rally (asphalt and snow)
February 9-12: Rally Sweden (snow)
March 16 to 19: Rally Mexico (dirt)
April 20-23: Rally Croatia (asphalt)
May 11 to 14: Rally de Portugal (gravel)
June 1 to 4: Rally d’Italia (gravel)
June 22-25: Kenya Safari Rally (dirt)
July 20-23: Rally Estonia (gravel)
August 3-6: Rally Finland (gravel)
September 7 to 10: Acropolis Rally of Greece (dirt)
September 28 to October 1: Rally de Chile (dirt)
October 26-29: Central Europe Rally (asphalt)
November 16-19: Rally Japan (asphalt)