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Rally Sweden 2026 counts for:
2026 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2026 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2026 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers/Co-drivers)
2026 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Teams and Drivers/Co-drivers)
2026 FIA Junior Championship for Drivers
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| 670th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 2 of 14 |
| Official name: | Rally Sweden |
| Edition: | 73rd |
| Date: | from Thursday 12-Feb-2026 to Sunday 15-Feb-2026 |
| Rally HQ: | Umea, Vasterbotten; Sweden |
| Clerk of the Course: | Stig Rune Kjernsli |
| Surface: | Snow |
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| Entries: | 59 | |
| Starters: | 57 | |
| Finishers: | 48 | (84.2% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 18 | |
| Shortest: | 5.70 | km | (SS8 Umea Sprint 1) |
| Longest: | 27.55 | km | (SS5 Bygdsiljum 2) |
| Slowest: | 89.57 | km/h | (SS8 Umea Sprint 1) |
| Fastest: | 129.95 | km/h | (SS2 Bygdsiljum 1) |
| Planned stage distance: | 300.66 | km | (28.1% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 300.66 | km | (28.1% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 768.78 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,069.44 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 12th win and 47th podium for Elfyn Evans. |
| Second place was 8th podium for Takamoto Katsuta. |
| Third place was 2nd podium for Sami Pajari. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 107th win and triple win were 293rd to 295th podiums for Toyota. |
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Sweden saw another podium lock-out for Toyota. Solberg led for the first stage but he went into a bank on SS3. Evans (pictured) had taken lead after SS2 and seemed to hold off opposition. However, both Katsuta and Pajari were fired up and Katsuta even had lead for two stages at the final stages of Friday. Evans recaptured it and controlled his lead until finish.
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Pre-event, Hyundai spoke confidently about having a car on podium as they fielded previous winner Lappi. For much of the rally, he was fastest Hyundai despite complaining about lack of grip but surprisingly on penultimate stage Lappi was slow (or slowed down) and it made Fourmaux (pictured) the fastest Hyundai over the finish line, albeit behind four Toyotas.
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M-Sport was where they nowadays always are, behind. Team's newcomer Armstrong (pictured) put on surprisingly strong showing, posting some respectable times and mainly staying out of trouble with just initial hassle on SS1 snowbank incident and overshooting junction on SS7. Team-mate McErlean was one position behind all the way, suffering tyre pressure alert without any visible reason.
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Related links
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Monte Carlo 2026
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Safari 2026
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