The rally would be based out of southeast Germany, in the city of Passau in Bavaria, and is set to run on tarmac. Central Europe Rally, a tri-nation event running a day each in Germany, Austria and Czech Republic, was introduced into the championship, replacing Rally de Catalunya.Rally Chile would rejoin the calendar after the Chilean protests and COVID-19 pandemic respectively ruled out the event in 20.The organizers of the rally had previously held a national event in 2022 in the bid of a 2023 return. Rally Mexico returned to championship after missing the 20 championships.The anticipated rally based in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia was absent from the calendar. However, the number of the events was reduced to thirteen following a lengthy delay of the calendar. The championship was expected to be expanded to fourteen rounds, with eight Europe-based rallies and six fly-away events covering the season. The 2023 season is scheduled to be contested over thirteen rounds crossing Europe, Africa, North and South America and Asia. Event headquarters are marked with black dots. Electing to push and cement his second place, the Spaniard managed to score his second stage win of the event and pipped Rovanpera by 0.7s.Class=notpageimage| A map showing the locations of the rallies in the 2023 championship. Sordo ended Rovanpera’s streak of stage wins on the 37.24km Amarante test.
In the battle between the three chasing Hyundais, Sordo was a tenth faster than Lappi, who in turn managed to pull 4.9s on Neuville in the battle for third. Rovanpera completed the second pass of Vieira do Minho, which he blitzed in the morning, with a 2.8s margin over nearest rival Sordo and admitted that he was now managing his pace. Rovanpera was once again the driver to beat when action resumed in the afternoon, as the Finn extended his perfect start to Saturday by scoring his fourth consecutive stage win on the event's 12th test. M-Sport’s Ott Tanak ended Saturday in a lonely fifth driving the sole remaining Ford Puma after team-mate Pierre-Louis Loubet retired on stage 10. Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville leapfrogged team-mate Esapekka Lappi to claim third, with 2.3s splitting the duo.
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