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Sébastien Loeb, the defending World Drivers' Champion.[1]

The 2013 World Rally Championship season is the forty-first season of the World Rally Championship, an auto racing championship recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile as the highest class of international rallying. The season will be run over thirteen rallies, starting with the Rallye Monte Carlo on 16 January,[2] and finishing with the Wales Rally of Great Britain on 17 November.[3] Volkswagen entered the series as a constructor with the Polo R WRC,[4] while Ford and Mini ended their factory support for the Fiesta RS WRC and John Cooper Works WRC respectively,[5][6] though both continued to make their cars available to customer teams.

The 2013 season also marks the first appearances of the Super 2000 and Group N replacement category, Group R.[7] As part of this introduction, the support series – Super 2000, Group N Production Cars and the World Rally Championship Academy – were restructured, with the Super 2000, four-wheel-drive Group R and Group N categories reorganised as the FIA World Rally Championship-2, two-wheel-drive Group R categories becoming FIA World Rally Championship-3, and the WRC Academy becoming the FIA Junior World Rally Championship. An FIA Production Car Cup will also be awarded to a registered entrant in WRC-2 who is driving a Group N car.[8]

Sébastien Loeb started the season as the defending World Champion after securing his ninth title at the 2012.[1] However, Loeb will not return to contest the full 2013 season.[9] Citroën are the defending Constructors' Champions. Both Loeb and Citroën secured their titles at the 2012 Rallye de France – Alsace.[10][11]

After five rounds of the championship, Volkswagen Motorsport driver Sébastien Ogier leads the World Championship by 54 points over Sébastien Loeb. Mikko Hirvonen is third in the title chase, 11 points behind Loeb. Volkswagen Motorsport lead the manufacturers' championship by 14 points, with the Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team in second place. The highest-placed Ford team, Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team, sits third, a further 67 points behind Citroën.

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Calendar[edit]

The Citroën DS3 WRC, the car entered by defending World Constructors' Champions, the Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team.[10]

The 2013 calendar was announced at a meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Singapore on 28 September 2012.[3] The season will be contested over thirteen rounds in Europe, North and South America and Australia.

Round Dates Rally name Base Surface
1 16–19 January Monaco 81ème Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo France Valence, Rhône-Alpes Mixed
2 7–10 February Sweden 61st Rally Sweden Sweden Hagfors, Värmland Snow
3 8–10 March Mexico 27º Rally Guanajuato México Guanajuato León, Guanajuato Gravel
4 11–14 April Portugal 47º Vodafone Rally de Portugal Portugal Faro, Algarve Gravel
5 3–5 May Argentina 33º Philips LED Rally Argentina Córdoba Province, Argentina Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba Gravel
6 31 May–2 June Greece 59th Acropolis Rally Greece Loutraki, Corinthia Gravel
7 21–23 June Italy 10º Rally d'Italia Sardegna Sardinia Olbia, Gallura Gravel
8 2–4 August Finland 63rd Neste Oil Rally Finland Finland Jyväskylä, Keski-Suomi Gravel
9 23–25 August Germany 31. ADAC Rallye Deutschland Rhineland-Palatinate Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate Tarmac
10 13–15 September Australia 22nd Coates Hire Rally Australia[12] New South Wales Coffs Harbour, New South Wales Gravel
11 4–6 October France Rallye de France – Alsace 2013 Alsace Strasbourg, Alsace Tarmac
12 25–27 October Spain 49º Rally RACC Catalunya – Costa Daurada Catalonia Salou, Tarragona Mixed
13 14–17 November United Kingdom 69th Wales Rally GB Wales Deeside, Flintshire[13] Gravel

Calendar and event changes[edit]

  • The route of the Acropolis Rally will be heavily revised; where the 2012 event was run over 409 km (254 mi), the 2013 rally route will be cut back to just 190 km (120 mi), held over two days of competition.[14]
  • Rally Australia is scheduled to return to the calendar, replacing the Rally New Zealand as part of the event-sharing agreement established between the two events in 2008. The route for the event was adjusted from that used n 2011, with existing stages variously merged and trimmed down to make way for new stages and create a compact route that was as long as possible.[15]
  • The route of the Rallye Deutschland will change for 2013, with the start moving from Trier to Cologne. The first leg of the event will include a series of brand-new stages between the two cities that will form the first leg of the event before the competitors arrive in Trier, which will continue to serve as the base for the rally.[16]
  • Rally de Catalunya, which had been the final event of 2012, was moved back to the final weekend of October to become the penultimate event of the season. The rally will feature a revised route for 2013, with the introduction of night stages and a more even split between tarmac and gravel roads than in previous years.[17]
  • The Rally d'Italia Sardegna was brought forward, from October to June.
  • The Wales Rally GB will return to its traditional end-of-season date, having been brought forward to September for the 2012 season in a failed bid to promote tourism in the region.[18] The event was relocated from Cardiff to Deeside in the County of Flintshire.[13] This move enabled event organisers to introduce a brand-new route for the 2013 event, the rally run through the regions of Snowdonia and Denbighshire. More than half the stages will either be brand-new or returning after an absence of over twenty years, and will include a return to Gwydyr, a stage which has not featured in the route since the 1960s.[19]
  • The Rally Mexico will feature a heavily revised route, which will see the introduction of several brand-new stages and the reconfiguration of older ones.[20]
  • The route of Rally Sweden will cross over the Norwegian border to include stages previously used in Rally Norway.[21]

Signed teams and drivers[edit]

World Rally Championship[edit]

The following teams and drivers are scheduled to compete in the World Rally Championship during the 2013 season:

World Rally Car entries eligible to score manufacturer points
Constructor Team Tyre No. Drivers Co-drivers Rounds
Citroën
(Citroën DS3 WRC)		 France Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team[22] M 1 France Sébastien Loeb[9] Monaco Daniel Elena[9] 1–2, 5
2 Finland Mikko Hirvonen[23] Finland Jarmo Lehtinen[23] 1–7
3 Spain Dani Sordo[24] Spain Carlos del Barrio[24] 3–4, 6–7
France Abu Dhabi Citroën Total World Rally Team[25][26] M 10 Spain Dani Sordo[27][28] Spain Carlos del Barrio[27] 1, 5
United Arab Emirates Khalid Al Qassimi[29] United Kingdom Scott Martin[30] 2, 4, 6–7
Australia Chris Atkinson[31] Belgium Stéphane Prévot[31] 3
Ford
(Ford Fiesta RS WRC)		 United Kingdom Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team[32] M 4 Norway Mads Østberg[33] Sweden Jonas Andersson[33] 1–7
5 Russia Evgeny Novikov[34] Austria Ilka Minor[34] 1–7
United Kingdom Qatar World Rally Team[35] M 6 Finland Juho Hänninen[36] Finland Tomi Tuominen[37] 1
Qatar Nasser Al-Attiyah[32] Italy Giovanni Bernacchini[38] 3, 6
11 Belgium Thierry Neuville[34] Belgium Nicolas Gilsoul[34] 1–7
Czech Republic Jipocar Czech National Team D 21 Czech Republic Martin Prokop[38] Czech Republic Michal Ernst[38] 2–4
M 5–7
Poland Lotos Team WRC[39] M 12 Poland Michał Kościuszko[35] Poland Maciek Szczepaniak[35] 7
Mini
(Mini John Cooper Works WRC)		 Italy Lotos Team WRC[40] D 12 Poland Michał Kościuszko[35] Poland Maciek Szczepaniak[35] 1–5
Volkswagen
(Volkswagen Polo R WRC)[4]		 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport[4] M 7 Finland Jari-Matti Latvala[41] Finland Miikka Anttila[41] 1–7
8 France Sébastien Ogier[42] France Julien Ingrassia[42] 1–7
Germany Volkswagen Motorsport II[43] M 9 Norway Andreas Mikkelsen[44] Finland Mikko Markkula[44] 4–7

Team changes[edit]

Ford and Mini have ended their support programmes for the Fiesta RS (top) and John Cooper Works (bottom) WRC cars.
  • Citroën will expand its works team, the Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team, to become a three-car operation,[29] with the team's third car to be run part-time.[60] The Abu Dhabi Citroën Total World Rally Team will run two additional cars as a satellite team of the works outfit which is eligible to score manufacturers' points independently of the works team.[35]
  • Ford will no longer provide manufacturer support to its teams in 2013.[5] The M-Sport Ford World Rally Team will still operate as a WRC team and be eligible to score World Championship points, with the team having acquired backing from Qatar to run three cars.[32] Like Citroën, M-Sport's entries were structured into two teams that are able to score points independently of one another; in the absence of a Ford factory team, the Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team became the de facto lead team, and the Qatar World Rally Team was set up as a satellite operation.[35]
  • Hyundai will return to the series in 2014 as a manufacturer after an eleven-year absence. The company has announced plans to compete with the i20 WRC at selected events in 2013, ahead of a full championship campaign in 2014.[61] Hyundai had previously competed in the WRC from 2000 to 2003 with the Accent WRC.
  • In October 2012, Mini formally terminated their factory-supported WRC programme, but stated that as the John Cooper Works WRC had met the FIA's homologation requirements for World Rally Cars, they would make the car available to customer teams who wished to compete with it.[6] Prodrive announced their intentions to continue campaigning with cars,[57] but Team Mini Portugal, Palmeirinha Rally and the Armindo Araújo World Rally Team were closed down.[35]
  • Following the closure of Team Mini Portugal, several members of Motorsport Italia—the organisation that prepared and managed the Team Mini Portugal entries in 2012—formed a new team with the backing of Polish oil conglomerate Grupa Lotos, to be known as Lotos Team WRC.[40] The team later switched to competing with a Ford Fiesta RS WRC.[39]
  • Volkswagen will enter the championship as a manufacturer team, entering two Polo R WRCs for a full-season campaign[4] – to be headed by Sébastien Ogier and co-driver Julien Ingrassia – who contested the 2012 season with a Škoda Fabia S2000.[42][62]

Driver changes[edit]

Sébastien Ogier – seen here at the 2011 Rallye Deutschland – will lead Volkswagen's foray into the World Rally Championship.[42]

Changes[edit]

Class changes[edit]

The 2013 season will see the introduction of a new rally category, Group R.[71] No new cars will be homologated under the Group A and Group N regulations for production cars, and will instead be reclassified under Group R before being phased out of competition.[72] With the introduction of Group R, the rules for the feeder categories re-written in a bid to boost entries:[8]

  • In the WRC Championship, entries registered as manufacturers must enter all thirteen rounds of the championship with a minimum of two cars. These teams may score drivers' and manufacturers' championship points at every round they enter.[73]
  • Major entries that are registered as WRC teams but not as manufacturers must take part in at least seven events – including at least one outside Europe – with a one or two-car team. These teams are eligible to score manufacturers' points if the cars entered meet the homologation of those cars that are entered by teams registered as manufacturers.[73]
  • In the WRC-2 Championship – open to R5, R4, Super 2000 and N4 cars – teams must contest at least seven events, with their best six results from the first seven events they enter being counted towards their final points tally. There will be no penalty for missing rounds.[73]
  • In the WRC-3 Championship – open to two-wheel-drive cars conforming to the FIA's R1, R2 and R3 technical regulations – teams must contest at least six events, with their best five results from the first seven events they enter being counted towards their final points tally. There will be no penalty for missing rounds.[73]
  • The Junior WRC Championship will be open to drivers under the age of twenty-six. All teams will contest the same six events—the Rallies of Portugal, Greece, Finland, Germany, France and Catalunya—with their five best results counting towards their final score.[73][74]

Organisational structure[edit]

After the collapse of promoter North One Sport and parent company Convers Sports Initiatives in early 2012,[75][76] and being forced to arrange event coverage on an event-by-event basis for most of the 2012 season, the World Rally Championship sought out a new promoter for 2013 in Red Bull House Media.[77]

At the end of the 2012 season, the FIA elected not to renew their contract with British firm Stage One Technology to provide timing services for stages. They were replaced by Spanish outfit Sistemas Integrales de Telecomunicacion.[78]

Rally summaries[edit]

Round 1 — 81ème Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo[edit]

Round Rally name Podium finishers Statistics
Pos. No. Driver Team Time Stages Length Starters Finishers
1 Monaco 81ème Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo
(15–20 January) — Results and report		 1 1 France Sébastien Loeb
Monaco Daniel Elena		 France Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT
(Citroën DS3 WRC)		 5:18:57.2 (18)†
16		 (478.42 km)†
436.02 km		 73 45
2 8 France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia		 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport
(Volkswagen Polo R WRC)		 5:20:37.1
3 10 Spain Dani Sordo
Spain Carlos del Barrio		 France Abu Dhabi Citroën Total WRT
(Citroën DS3 WRC)		 5:22:46.2

The opening event of the season was run in difficult conditions, with heavy snowfalls recorded the length of the route. In his final appearance at the Monte Carlo Rally, Sébastien Loeb secured a record seventh victory on the event, winning by over a minute and a half. The World Champion took the lead during the first day and quickly established a one-minute margin to his former team-mate, Sébastien Ogier. Ogier went on to finish second in the Volkswagen Polo R WRC's debut, having set the fastest time on the opening stage of the rally.[79] Team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala was less-fortunate, sliding off the road on the fourth leg of the rally and retiring. Despite beating Loeb's times on several stages, Ogier was quoted as saying he had no intention of challenging Loeb's lead as it was "never a part of the plan", whilst team principal Jost Capito stated that it was more important for the team to secure a strong result than it was to challenge for outright victory.[80] Nevertheless, some observers admitted that Loeb was untouchable, regardless Ogier's motivation.[81] Dani Sordo secured third place after spending most of the rally trading place with Qatar M-Sport's Evgeny Novikov until the Russian crashed out of the event on the Col de Turini. The event was ultimately cut short when rally organisers cancelled the final two stages in the face of overwhelming spectator numbers that blocked access to the stages.[82] As a result, no points were offered for the power stage.

Round 2 — 61st Rally Sweden[edit]

Round Rally name Podium finishers Statistics
Pos. No. Driver Team Time Stages Length Starters Finishers
2 Sweden 61st Rally Sweden
(8–10 February) — Results and report		 1 8 France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia		 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport
(Volkswagen Polo R WRC)		 3:11:41.9 22 297.78 km 43 35
2 1 France Sébastien Loeb
Monaco Daniel Elena		 France Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT
(Citroën DS3 WRC)		 3:12:23.7
3 4 Norway Mads Østberg
Sweden Jonas Andersson		 United Kingdom Qatar M-Sport WRT
(Ford Fiesta RS WRC)		 3:13:06.4

Sébastien Ogier secured the Volkswagen Polo R WRC's maiden victory in Sweden, winning the rally by forty seconds ahead of Sébastien Loeb. Ogier took the lead of the rally early on the first day,[83] and steadily built up a thirty-second lead over the rest of the field. After struggling with a poor set-up early in the rally, Sébastien Loeb steadily began to recover, and eventually launched a final assault as the rally crossed over the border into Norway.[84] Loeb successfully took ten seconds away from Ogier as he won three consecutive stages until made a mistake on the penultimate stage and hit a snowbank, at which point he decided to back off.[85] Ogier and team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala went on to set the two fastest times on the Power Stage, with the three bonus World Championship points giving Ogier the lead in World Drivers' Championship.[86] Mads Østberg completed the podium, narrowly beating Latvala. Mikko Hirvonen lost twenty minutes in an accident on the first day and ultimately went on to finish seventeenth,[83] whilst Evgeny Novikov rolled on the final day and fell from fifth to ninth overall.[85]

Round 3 — 27º Rally Guanajuato México[edit]

Round Rally name Podium finishers Statistics
Pos. No. Driver Team Time Stages Length Starters Finishers
3 Mexico 27º Rally México
(8–10 March) — Results and report		 1 8 France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia		 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport
(Volkswagen Polo R WRC)		 4:30:31.2 23 396.82 km 25 20
2 2 Finland Mikko Hirvonen
Finland Jarmo Lehtinen		 France Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT
(Citroën DS3 WRC)		 4:33:58.0
3 11 Belgium Thierry Neuville
Belgium Nicolas Gilsoul		 United Kingdom Qatar World Rally Team
(Ford Fiesta RS WRC)		 4:34:50.8

With Sébastien Loeb contesting just four events in 2013, the Rally of Mexico became the first rally since the 1992 Rallye Côte d'Ivoire to start without a World Champion driver taking part. The first leg of the rally was marked by a three-way battle, with Thierry Neuville, Sébastien Ogier and Mads Østberg all holding the lead of the rally. As Ogier gradually established a lead over Østberg as Neuville fell behind until a mechanical issue forced Østberg into a premature retirement. Østberg was able to re-enter the rally the next day under "Rally 2" regulations, but the accompanying five-minute penalty put him out of contention and Mikko Hirvonen emerged as Ogier's closest challenger; Østberg ultimately finished eleventh, but scored two bonus world championship points on the Power Stage. Ogier went on to win his second rally in succession by three and a half minutes, with Hirvonen second and Neuville completing the podium. Dani Sordo—driving for the Citroën works team in Loeb's absence—was fourth, while Nasser al-Attiyah, Chris Atkinson and Ken Block all marked their return to the WRC with fifth, sixth and seventh place respectively.

Round 4 — 47º Rally de Portugal[edit]

Round Rally name Podium finishers Statistics
Pos. No. Driver Team Time Stages Length Starters Finishers
4 Portugal 47º Rally de Portugal
(11–14 April) — Results and report		 1 8 France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia		 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport
(Volkswagen Polo R WRC)		 4:07:38.7 15 386.73 km 70 38
2 2 Finland Mikko Hirvonen
Finland Jarmo Lehtinen		 France Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT
(Citroën DS3 WRC)		 4:08:36.9
3 7 Finland Jari-Matti Latvala
Finland Miikka Anttila		 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport
(Volkswagen Polo R WRC)		 4:11:43.2

Sébastien Ogier took his third consecutive win in Portugal. Mads Østberg took an early lead, but rolled his Ford Fiesta RS WRC when he mis-heard a pace note on the first day, and he was forced to retire. Dani Sordo emerged as Ogier's next challenger, but his bid to win the rally came to an abrupt end when he was similarly forced to retire after crashing. Ogier and team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala built up a lead over third-placed Mikko Hirvonen until disaster struck the two Volkswagen Polo R WRCs on the final day. Ogier lost thirty seconds on a single stage with a mechanical problem, whilst the same fate befell Latvala, who subsequently lost second place to Hirvonen. The Volkswagens recovered quickly, and Ogier went on to win the power stage and the rally, but the damage had been done and Latvala finished three minutes behind Hirvonen. Evgeny Novikov recovered from a slow start to his season to finish fourth, the highest-placed Ford driver, with Nasser Al-Attiyah in fifth and Andreas Mikkelsen sixth in the third Volkswagen. Østberg re-entered the rally after his roll and went on to finish eighth, picking up two extra World Championship points on the power stage.

Round 5 — 33º Rally Argentina[edit]

Round Rally name Podium finishers Statistics
Pos. No. Driver Team Time Stages Length Starters Finishers
5 Argentina 33º Rally Argentina
(3–5 May) — Results and report		 1 1 France Sébastien Loeb
Monaco Daniel Elena		 France Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT
(Citroën DS3 WRC)		 4:35:56.7 14 407.64 km 32 24
2 8 France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia		 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport
(Volkswagen Polo R WRC)		 4:36:51.7
3 7 Finland Jari-Matti Latvala
Finland Miikka Anttila		 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport
(Volkswagen Polo R WRC)		 4:37:57.5

After missing the rallies of Mexico and Portugal to compete in the FIA Grand Touring Series, Sébastien Loeb marked his return to rallying with first place in the Rally Argentina. Sébastien Ogier took the lead early on, but made a mistake whilst driving in heavy fog. He lost forty seconds, allowing Loeb to seize the advantage. Jari-Matti Latvala and Mikko Hirvonen fought over the final podium position until Hirvonen's Citroën DS3 WRC developed an electrical problem. Latvala could not afford to rest, as he found himself fighting with Evgeny Novikov. A late charge on the final day—including the fastest time on the power stage—was enough for Latvala to secure third place and his first podium in Argentina. Hirvonen recovered to finsh sixth overall, finishing third on the power stage to score an additional World Championship point.

Round 6 — 59th Acropolis Rally[edit]

Round Rally name Podium finishers Statistics
Pos. No. Driver Team Time Stages Length Starters Finishers
6 Greece 59th Acropolis Rally
(31 May–2 June) — Results and report		 1 7 Finland Jari-Matti Latvala
Finland Miikka Anttila		 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport
(Volkswagen Polo R WRC)		 3:31:01.2 14 306.53 km 49 38
2 3 Spain Dani Sordo
Spain Carlos del Barrio		 France Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT
(Citroën DS3 WRC)		 3:32:51.2
3 11 Belgium Thierry Neuville
Belgium Nicolas Gilsoul		 United Kingdom Qatar World Rally Team
(Ford Fiesta RS WRC)		 3:33:15.3

Jari-Matti Latvala took his first win of the 2013 season, and his first win for Volkswagen on the Acropolis Rally. The opening forty-seven kilometre stage proved to be difficult, claiming three high-profile victims in Sébastien Ogier, Mads Østberg and Mikko Hirvonen in short order, and Evgeny Novikov emerged as the surprise early leader, building up a thirty-second advantage at the end of the first leg. The Russian's lead was short-lived, as he developed a puncture early in the second leg and was forced to limp back to the service park. Latvala took control of the rally while Andreas Mikkelsen in the third factory-supported Polo R began to work his way up through the points-paying positions. He ultimately missed out on a podium finish of his own, as Dani Sordo and Thierry Neuville each took their second podium finish of the season with second and third place respectively. Latvala's result was briefly challenged by Citroën, who believed his car was in violation of the technical regulations, but the protest was dismissed and Latvala's result was confirmed, allowing him to secure second place in the drivers' championship standings behind team-mate Ogier.


Notes:

  • ^†  — Rally was shortened after stages were cancelled.

Results and standings[edit]

FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers[edit]

Points are awarded to the top 10 classified finishers.

Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th 
Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1
Pos. Driver MON
Monaco		 SWE
Sweden		 MEX
Mexico		 POR
Portugal		 ARG
Argentina		 GRE
Greece		 ITA
Italy		 FIN
Finland		 GER
Germany		 AUS
Australia		 FRA
France		 ESP
Spain		 GBR
United Kingdom		 Points
1 France Sébastien Ogier 2 11 11 11 22 101 126
2 Finland Jari-Matti Latvala Ret 42 163 33 31 1 74
3 France Sébastien Loeb 1 2 1 68
4 Finland Mikko Hirvonen 4 17 2 2 63 8 61
5 Belgium Thierry Neuville Ret 5 3 17 5 3 50
6 Spain Dani Sordo 3 Ret 4 12 9 2 47
7 Norway Mads Østberg 6 33 112 82 7 6 46
8 Russia Evgeny Novikov Ret 9 10 4 4 92 31
9 Qatar Nasser Al-Attiyah 5 5 5 30
10 Czech Republic Martin Prokop 7 7 9 7 10 7 27
11 Norway Andreas Mikkelsen 6 8 43 25
12 France Bryan Bouffier 5 13 10
13 Finland Juho Hänninen Ret 6 WD 8
14 Australia Chris Atkinson 6 8
15 United States Ken Block 7 6
16 Germany Sepp Wiegand 8 13 14 4
17 Norway Henning Solberg 8 4
18 Mexico Benito Guerra WD 8 4
19 Switzerland Olivier Burri 9 2
20 United Arab Emirates Khalid Al Qassimi Ret 9 Ret 2
21 Poland Michał Kościuszko 10 14 Ret Ret Ret WD 1
22 Saudi Arabia Yazeed Al-Rajhi 10 WD 1
23 Finland Esapekka Lappi Ret 10 1
Pos. Driver MON
Monaco		 SWE
Sweden		 MEX
Mexico		 POR
Portugal		 ARG
Argentina		 GRE
Greece		 ITA
Italy		 FIN
Finland		 GER
Germany		 AUS
Australia		 FRA
France		 ESP
Spain		 GBR
United Kingdom		 Points
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Did not finish (Ret)
Black Excluded (EX)
White Did not start (DNS)
Blank Withdrew entry before the event (WD)

Notes:
1 2 3 – Indicate position on Power Stage

FIA World Rally Championship for Co-Drivers[edit]

Pos. Driver MON
Monaco		 SWE
Sweden		 MEX
Mexico		 POR
Portugal		 ARG
Argentina		 GRE
Greece		 ITA
Italy		 FIN
Finland		 GER
Germany		 AUS
Australia		 FRA
France		 ESP
Spain		 GBR
United Kingdom		 Points
1 France Julien Ingrassia 2 11 11 11 22 101 126
2 Finland Miikka Anttila Ret 42 163 33 31 1 74
3 Monaco Daniel Elena 1 2 1 68
4 Finland Jarmo Lehtinen 4 17 2 2 63 8 61
5 Belgium Nicolas Gilsoul Ret 5 3 17 5 3 50
6 Spain Carlos del Barrio 3 Ret 4 12 9 2 47
7 Sweden Jonas Andersson 6 33 112 82 7 6 46
8 Austria Ilka Minor Ret 9 10 4 4 92 31
9 Italy Giovanni Bernacchini 27 5 5 5 30
10 Czech Republic Michal Ernst 7 7 9 7 10 7 27
11 Finland Mikko Markkula 6 8 43 25
12 France Xavier Panseri 5 13 10
13 Finland Tomi Tuominen Ret 6 WD 8
14 Belgium Stephane Prévot 6 8
15 Italy Alex Gelsomino 7 6
16 Germany Frank Christian 8 13 14 4
17 Sweden Emil Axelsson 8 4
18 Spain Borja Rozada WD 8 4
19 France Guillaume Duval 9 2
20 United Kingdom Scott Martin Ret 9 Ret 2
21 Poland Maciej Szczepaniak 10 14 Ret Ret Ret WD 1
22 United Kingdom Michael Orr 10 WD 1
23 Finland Janne Ferm Ret 10 1
Pos. Driver MON
Monaco		 SWE
Sweden		 MEX
Mexico		 POR
Portugal		 ARG
Argentina		 GRE
Greece		 ITA
Italy		 FIN
Finland		 GER
Germany		 AUS
Australia		 FRA
France		 ESP
Spain		 GBR
United Kingdom		 Points
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Did not finish (Ret)
Black Excluded (EX)
White Did not start (DNS)
Blank Withdrew entry before the event (WD)

Notes:
1 2 3 – Indicate position on Power Stage

FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers[edit]

Pos. Manufacturer No. MON
Monaco		 SWE
Sweden		 MEX
Mexico		 POR
Portugal		 ARG
Argentina		 GRE
Greece		 ITA
Italy		 FIN
Finland		 GER
Germany		 AUS
Australia		 FRA
France		 ESP
Spain		 GBR
United Kingdom		 Points
1 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport 7 Ret 4 10 3 3 1 180
8 2 1 1 1 2 10
2 France Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team 1 1 2 1 162
2 4 9 2 2 6 8
3 4 9 2
3 United Kingdom Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team[N 1] 4 5 3 9 7 7 6 83
5 Ret 7 8 4 4 9
4 United Kingdom Qatar World Rally Team 6 Ret 5 5 71
11 Ret 5 3 10 5 3
5 France Abu Dhabi Citroën Total World Rally Team 10 3 Ret 6 8 9 Ret 29
6 Czech Republic Jipocar Czech National Team 21 6 7 6 10 7 29
7 Germany Volkswagen Motorsport II 9 5 8 4 26
8 Italy Lotos Team WRC[N 2] 12 6 8 Ret Ret Ret WD 12
Pos. Manufacturer No. MON
Monaco		 SWE
Sweden		 MEX
Mexico		 POR
Portugal		 ARG
Argentina		 GRE
Greece		 ITA
Italy		 FIN
Finland		 GER
Germany		 AUS
Australia		 FRA
France		 ESP
Spain		 GBR
United Kingdom		 Points
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Did not finish (Ret)
Black Excluded (EX)
White Did not start (DNS)
Blank Withdrew entry before the event (WD)

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ Following Ford's withdrawal from the category as a manufacturer team, the FIA recognised Qatar M-Sport as the de facto manufacturer team, subjecting them to the same rules as other manufacturer teams.[87]
  2. ^ Although Lotos Team WRC is recognised by the FIA as a manufacturer team, only their best eight results from thirteen rallies will be counted towards the team's final points tally.[87]

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