WRC
Entry List: Delfi Rally Estonia 2026
A 53-car entry has been confirmed for WRC Delfi Rally Estonia, with 11 Rally1 cars and a stacked Rally2 field ready for the championship’s high-speed gravel return from 16 - 19 July.
The Tartu-based event, round nine of the 2026 FIA World Rally Championship, will be one of the final opportunities for Estonian fans to see the current generation of Rally1 cars at full flight on the country’s fast southern gravel roads before new technical regulations arrive in 2027.
Toyota Gazoo Racing heads the entry with five GR Yaris Rally1 cars and considerable strength in depth. Championship leader Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin are joined by Takamoto Katsuta and Aaron Johnston, Oliver Solberg and Elliott Edmondson, Sami Pajari and Marko Salminen and nine-time world champion Sébastien Ogier with Vincent Landais.
Solberg’s inclusion adds one of the strongest storylines of the entry. The Swede returns to the scene of his breakthrough WRC victory, achieved in spectacular fashion in Estonia last year on his Toyota Rally1 debut. He now heads back to Tartu as a regular part of Toyota’s title-chasing line-up and one of the standout performers of the season so far.
Ogier also brings extra pull to the Toyota line-up as he returns to Estonia for the first time in five years, while Pajari will be another driver expected to feel at home on the type of fast, flowing gravel more commonly associated with the Nordic rounds.
Hyundai Shell Mobis World Rally Team fields three i20 N Rally1 cars. Adrien Fourmaux and Alexandre Coria will line up alongside Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe, with Esapekka Lappi returning to high-speed gravel alongside Enni Mälkönen. Neuville has previously reached the podium three times on Estonia’s WRC roads, while Lappi finished third on the event in 2023.
M-Sport Ford World Rally Team also enters three Puma Rally1 cars. Jon Armstrong and Shane Byrne are joined by Josh McErlean and Eoin Treacy, while Mārtiņš Sesks and Renārs Francis add another Baltic storyline to an event expected to draw strong support from neighbouring Latvia.
The Rally2 field is among the biggest stories of the entry, with 28 cars confirmed and an especially strong Estonian presence. Robert Virves and Jakko Viilo return with Toksport WRT to defend the WRC2 win they claimed on home soil last year, when Virves delivered his first category victory in front of a home crowd.
That home challenge is deep. Romet Jürgenson and Siim Oja, Jaspar Vaher and Rait Jansen, Patrick Enok and Silver Simm, Egon Kaur and Ermo Veltson, Karl Martin Volver and Annika Sõna and Joosep Ralf Nõgene and Aleks Lesk are all listed in Rally2 machinery, while Rally Estonia founders Urmo Aava and Silver Kütt will also take on the event in a Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 prepared by RedGrey.
There is a clear Estonia-versus-Finland flavour to the category too. Roope Korhonen and Anssi Viinikka, Teemu Suninen and Janni Hussi, Emil Lindholm and Gabriel Morales, Lauri Joona and Antti Linnaketo, Mikko Heikkilä and Kristian Temonen and Tuukka Kauppinen and Sebastian Virtanen all strengthen a major Finnish presence in the Rally2 ranks.
Further WRC2 depth comes from Jan Solans and Rodrigo Sanjuan, Yuki Yamamoto and James Fulton, Arthur Pelamourgues and Bastien Pouget, Mille Johansson and Johan Grönvall, Giovanni Trentin and Pietro Elia Ometto, Bernhard ten Brinke and Tom Woodburn, Takumi Matsushita and Pekka Kelander, Shotaro Goto and Jussi Lindberg, Johannes Keferböck and Ilka Minor, Uğur Soylu and Mehmet Yalçın and Jorge Martínez and Marcelo Brizio.
Gus Greensmith and Jonas Andersson are also included among the Rally2 runners in a Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 but are nominated to score points.
WRC3 is represented by 10 crews, with Rio Ogata, Kanta Yanaguida, Tymek Abramowski, Nataniel Bruun, Priit Koik, Kerem Kazaz, Jarkko Nikara, Grzegorz Bonder, Nicolas Otto and André Martínez all entered in Rally3 machinery.
Delfi Rally Estonia 2026 takes place over 18 stages and 301.80 competitive kilometres across southern Estonia, with Tartu again at the heart of the event.
View the full entry list here.
