Revealed today, the star-studded entry list features 10 top-line Rally1 cars as well as more than 30 registrants in WRC2, the championship’s premier support category.
Series leader Kalle Rovanperä tops the list for the tri-country fixture in a Toyota. The Finn will go head-to-head with team-mate turned title rival Elfyn Evans, who trails Rovanperä by 31 points going into this penultimate round.
Eight-time WRC champion Sébastien Ogier returns to action for Toyota, the newly-crowned manufacturers’ champions. Joining the Munich-based Frenchman in a four-strong GR Yaris attack is Takamoto Katsuta, who hails from Japan.
Thierry Neuville and Esapekka Lappi spearhead Hyundai Motorsport’s line-up while Teemu Suninen, who came agonisingly close to achieving his maiden i20 N Rally1 podium in Chile last time out, makes his asphalt debut in the car.
M-Sport Ford fields three Puma Rally1s for Ott Tänak, Pierre-Louis Loubet and Grégoire Munster. The event, which takes place across Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic, will mark Tänak’s penultimate start with the British team before he re-joins Hyundai in 2024.
WRC2 lovers are in for a real treat with all the main title protagonists set to go head-to-head for victory. They include Andreas Mikkelsen, Yohan Rossel, Gus Greensmith, Nikolay Gryazin and Kajetan Kajetanowicz.
Finland
Italy
Hungary