2025 FIA Junior WRC calendar revealed*: Portugal returns, Central European Rally debuts
The FIA Junior WRC calendar for 2025 guarantees one other thrilling season with the return of Vodafone Rally de Portugal and a debut for Central European Rally.
Constructing on the record-breaking entry listing of 2024, the 2025 championship is about to proceed its momentum by providing rising abilities the possibility to showcase their abilities in similar M-Sport Poland Ford Fiesta Rally3 Evo vehicles throughout 5 high-profile rounds of the FIA World Rally Championship.
The season revs into motion in Umeå from 13 – 16 February with Rally Sweden, a high-speed spectacle on snow and ice that serves as the proper season opener. For a lot of Junior WRC crews, it will likely be their first expertise of rallying with studded tyres on winter surfaces, the place common speeds are sometimes among the many highest all 12 months.
From 15 – 18 Could, crews head to Matosinhos for Vodafone Rally de Portugal – a founding spherical of the 1973 WRC season and famend for its passionate fanbase. Final showing on the Junior WRC calendar in 2022, Portugal’s sun-soaked gravel phases have a fame for delivering unforgettable drama.
The long-lasting EKO Acropolis Rally Greece takes centre stage from 26 – 29 June. Already one of the vital gruelling rallies on the planet, its transfer to a summer time date will solely intensify the problem with scorching temperatures and punishing rocky terrain.
After its fashionable return this 12 months, Secto Rally Finland as soon as once more types the fourth and penultimate spherical. Extremely-high speeds and stomach-churning jumps are half and parcel of the gravel-based occasion, which relies in Jyväskylä from 31 July – 3 August.
The season concludes in model at Central European Rally, making its Junior WRC debut from 16 – 19 October. The occasion boasts a novel cross-border format with phases traversing Austria, the Czech Republic, and Germany. As a remaining twist, double classification factors will probably be on supply, including much more pleasure to the championship finale.
FIA Junior WRC championship supervisor Maciej Woda commented: “2025 is shaping as much as be one other landmark 12 months for the FIA Junior WRC. We’ve designed a calendar that may problem our crews throughout quite a lot of terrains, from icy roads in Sweden to the searing warmth of Greece and the changeable Tarmac of Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany.
“I’m notably enthusiastic about returning to Portugal and the introduction of Central European Rally, which provides a recent dimension to the collection. It’s going to be one other thrilling season and I can’t wait to see who rises to the highest.”
* topic to World Motor Sport Council approval
