Next year’s season-opening Rallye Monte Carlo will offer a radically different challenge with 85 per cent of the route changed from the 2020 event. The season will start, as usual, with a pair of dark stages on Thursday night. Friday takes crews to the west of Gap for the rally’s longest day at 127.70 kilometres. Three new stages run twice will provide a thrilling first full day of action in the 2021 WRC season. Saturday goes in the opposite direction, east of Gap and starts with the cars heading east for the 20.68-kilometre St Clément – Freissinières stage which first featured this year. Sunday’s final day offers a typical routine of two stages repeated with no service.

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