| 2020 Rally Finland 70. Neste Rally Finland | |
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| Part of the 2020 World Rally Championship | |
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| Host country |  Finland |
| Rally base | Jyväskylä, Keski-Suomi |
| Held on | Scheduled for 6–9 August 2020 |
| Start location | Jyväskylä, Keski-Suomi |
| Finish location | Jyväskylä, Keski-Suomi |
| Stages | 24 (321.87 km; 200.00 miles) [1] |
| Stage surface | Gravel |
| Statistics | |
| Cancellation | Rally cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic. |
The 2020 Rally Finland (also known as the Neste Rally Finland 2020) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was scheduled to be held over four days between 6 and 9 August 2020, [2] but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] It was set to mark the seventieth running of Rally Finland and planned to be the eighth round of the 2020 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. It was also planned to run as the third round of the 2020 Junior World Rally Championship. The 2020 event was scheduled to be based in Jyväskylä in Keski-Suomi and consisted of twenty-four special stages covering a total competitive distance of 321.87 km (200.00 mi). [1]
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Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were the defending rally winners. The team they drove for in 2019, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the defending manufacturers' winners. [4] Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen were the defending winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category, [5] [a] but they would not defend their titles as they were promoted to the higher class. [6] In the World Rally Championship-3 category, Nikolay Gryazin and Yaroslav Fedorov were the reigning rally winners, [5] but they would not defend their titles either as they were promoted to WRC-2 class. [b] Tom Kristensson and Henrik Appelskog were the reigning rally winners in the Junior World Rally Championship. [7]
