The 2023 Rally Finland was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held from 3 August to 6 August 2023. It marked the seventy-second running of the Rally Finland, and was the ninth round of the 2023 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. The event was based in Jyväskylä in Central Finland, and was contested over twenty-two special stages covering a total competitive distance of 320.56 km (199.19 mi).
Rally Finland has the fastest average speed of any event on the calendar.
2023 World Rally Championship
The 2023 FIA World Rally Championship was the fifty-first season of the competition organised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) as the highest class of international rallying. Teams and crews competed for the World Rally Championships for Drivers, Co-drivers and Manufacturers. Crews were free to compete in cars complying with Groups Rally1 to Rally5 regulations; however, only manufacturers competing with Rally1 cars homologated were eligible to score points in the manufacturers' championship. The championship began in January 2023 with the Monte Carlo Rally and concluded in November 2023 with the Rally Japan. The series was supported by the World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3 categories at every round of the championship and by the Junior World Rally Championship at selected events.
Rally Mexico returned to the calendar.
Ott Tänak (left) and Martin Järveoja (right) left Hyundai and returned to M-Sport.
Craig Breen was killed in an accident ahead of the 2023 Croatia Rally.
Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen driving a Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 at the shakedown of the 2023 Rally Finland.