Rally Estonia bids for WRC calendar spot

Former Junior World Rally Championship frontrunner Urmo Aava is leading a bid for an Estonian round of the WRC.

Director of Rally Estonia Aava has met with WRC Promoter through this year and has set the event a series of targets to reach the sport’s highest level. Estonia’s fast stages are popular among the drivers who have competed there in the past. The event is also well known to the FIA, having been included as a round of the European Rally Championship.

Aava said: “We want to bring this rally to the next level. It won’t be easy, but we have made a long-term agreement with the Estonian Motor Sports Association with a view to our goal of achieving WRC [status]. The WRC series promoter values our ideas very highly. If we want to join the WRC series, we have to come up with new solutions and ideas.”

Aava will lead the effort to gain support and exposure for Rally Estonia, which runs as a round of the Estonian and Latvian series in July. The Tartubased event includes roads mainly in the south of the country.