Hankook Tire To Support Racers at WRC Rally Estonia 2025

Hankook Tire & Technology says that it is set to support Round 8 of the 2025 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC)—Delfi Rally Estonia—which will take place from July 17 to 20 across Tartu and the surrounding southern region of Estonia. Hankook Tire serves as the exclusive tire supplier to the WRC, organized by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA).

First added to the official WRC calendar in 2020, Rally Estonia has established itself as the country’s largest motorsports event. This year’s rally will start from Estonia’s second-largest city, Tartu, and cover a total of 20 special stages (SS) spanning approximately 190 miles. The course is designed with high-speed straights and narrow, fast corners across the southern region’s undulating terrain.

Rally Estonia is known for having the highest average speeds among all WRC stages, with competing vehicles averaging around 75 mph. Rallying on rough gravel surfaces with constant jump sections and other harsh conditions at such high speeds requires precise vehicle speed control, intense concentration and reliable rally tire performance for agile response, stated Hankook Tire company officials in a press release.

Hankook Tire will once again support this year’s rally with its Dynapro R213. Offered in both hard and soft compounds, the Dynapro R213 has been used in previous rounds held in Portugal and Italy, among other Mediterranean coastal regions, taking on sharp rocks, rough gravel and hard dirt terrain.

Current Leaders of the 2025 WRC Season

With Rally Estonia marking the halfway point of the 2025 WRC season, Elfyn Evans of the Toyota GAZOO Racing World Rally Team currently leads the Drivers’ World Championship standings with 150 points, followed closely by teammate Sébastien Ogier with 141 points and Hyundai Shell Mobis World Rally Team’s Ott Tänak with 138 points. The championship competition among these drivers is expected to become a major viewing highlight for the second half of the season, noted the press release.

As the exclusive tire supplier across all categories of the WRC starting in the 2025 season, Hankook Tire says that it continues to demonstrate its top-tier technological capabilities and product quality. The company is leveraging data gathered through both supplying racing tires to over 70 global motorsport competitions—including the WRC—and sponsoring participating teams, channeling these insights into the development of its ultra-high-performance tires.