Wrc, the 2022 World Rally calendar: here are all the dates

With 13 scheduled dates, and four continents to host the racing cars, the WRC World Rally calendar in the 2022 season will start from Monte Carlo, as usual, on the weekend of 23 January, and will end in Japan on 13 November. Among the novelties the return of New Zealand, on the weekend of 2 October; confirmed the tricolor appointment with the Aci Rally Italia, in Sardinia, in the first weekend of June.

WRC 2022 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: FOUR CONTINENTS

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A program of races that expands after the 2020 and 2021 seasons, conditioned by the pandemic, which forced the organizers to restrict the range of action mainly to Europe. The 2022 season of the WRC, first featuring the cars with hybrid powertrain of the Rally1 class, which combines the current thermal engines with a 100 kW (135 Hp) electric unit, will develop between the Old Continent, Africa (with the Rally of Kenya), Oceania (New Zealand, on dirt, which was missing from the world championship calendar since 2012) and Asia (Japan). Overall, we go from 12 events of the 2021 season to 13 of the 2022 season.

WRC 2022 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: THE CALENDAR

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Here is the World Rally calendar for the 2022 season, with the rounds in order of appearance:

1 Monte Carlo (January 20-23)

2 Sweden (February 24-27)

4 Portugal (May 19-22)

5 Rally Italia in Sardinia (2-5 June)

9 a date pending attribution (18-21 August)

10 Greece (8-11 September)

11 New Zealand (September 29-October 2)

12 Spain (20-23 October)

13 Japan (10-13 November)

Japan has been replaced in the world calendars of both 2021 and 2020 by the second Italian event (Monza) due to the logistical and organizational difficulties caused by the pandemic.