The Rally Argentina will once again take part in the 2011 FIA World Rally Championship calendar which will be conformed additionally by other 12 contests, as the World Motorsport Council announced at its last meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.

Hereby the Argentinean and South American fanatics will enjoy once more the most important competition of Rally worldwide, which will arrive to our lands between March the 27^th and 29^th, 2011 and it will be the sixth round of a championship which will begin on February 11^th in Switzerland and will finish on November 13^th in Great Britain.

With this announcement the possibility of a fourteenth competition in the season remained rejected since the communication points out: “there will be thirteen events to allow the evolution of rallying worldwide”.

Next season calendar remained ratified as follows:

1º Round               February 11 to 13                         Sweden

2º Round               March 6 to 8                                   Mexico

3º Round               March 27 to 29                             Portugal

4º Round               April 15 to 17                                 Jordan

5º Round               May 6 to 8                                      Italy

6º Round               May 27 to 29                                  Argentina

7º Round               June 17 to 19                                 Greek

8º Round               July 29 to 31                                   Finland

9º Round               August 19 to 21                             Deutschland

10º Round                        September 9 to 11                                   Australia

11ºRound              September 30 to October 2       France

12ºRound              October 21 to 23                          Spain

13ºRound              November 11 to 13                      Great Britain

WRC Regulations amendments and open selection of tyres for 2011

Besides the news concerning the calendar, the World Council also announced the amendments to next season regulations which, among other provisions, make an extension for the teams concerning the selection of any tyre supplier.

According to the FIA, the new regulation will take into account the control of the costs and also clarify that the only category which will continue with a single tyre supplier will be JWRC.

After a research of paddle shift systems suppliers for the next two seasons, the FIA announced that none of them satisfied the criteria, so that such measure won’t be implemented, although “it continue studying the possible introduction of a single paddle shift system in the future, in line with the evolution of road car technology”

As a final point, it was decided that with immediate effect, the name of the co-driver will be included on the rear side windows of competition cars in the World Rally Championship.