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Against the odds, following the cancellation of Rally Sweden, the 2021 World Rally Championship gets underway this week with its traditional curtain raiser in Monte Carlo.
After the 2020 season was heavily disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a six-month gap between rounds three and four, there is much hope that 2021 can bring a return of some form of normality in which the main talking points come from action on the stages rather than case numbers in service park localities.
With the WRC's benchmark driver taking on each event for the final time, the introduction of a new spec tyre set to spice up the competitive order and intra-team rivalries bubbling under the surface, there ought to be no shortage of plot lines when the season bursts into life on the Monte's icy Tarmac.
