2020 Rally Finland

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]

2020 Rally Finland 70. Neste Rally Finland
Part of the 2020 World Rally Championship
Rally Finland was the third event called off due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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
Results
Cancellation	Rally cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

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][lower-alpha 1] 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.[lower-alpha 2] Tom Kristensson and Henrik Appelskog were the reigning rally winners in the Junior World Rally Championship.[7]