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Sébastien Loeb, the defending World Drivers' Champion.[1]
The Citroën DS3 WRC, the car entered by defending World Constructors' Champions, the Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team.[2]

The 2013 World Rally Championship season will be 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, and will start with the Rallye Monte Carlo on 15 January.[3] Volkswagen will enter the series as a constructor with the Polo R WRC,[4] while Ford and Mini will end their factory support for the Fiesta RS WRC and John Cooper Works WRC respectively,[5][6] though both will continue to make their cars available to customer teams.

2013 will also mark 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 – will be 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 N4 car.[8]

Sébastien Loeb will start the season as the defending World Champion after securing his ninth title at the 2012.[1][9] However, Loeb will not return to contest the full 2013 season.[10] Citroën will be the defending Constructors' Champions. Both Loeb and Citroën secured their titles at the 2012 Rallye de France – Alsace.[2]

Calendar

The 2013 calendar was announced at a meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Singapore on 28 September 2012.[11]

Round Dates Rally name Base Road surface
1 16–19 January Monaco 81ème Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo Rhône-Alpes Valence, Rhône-Alpes Tarmac and snow
2 7–10 February Sweden 61st Rally Sweden Sweden Hagfors, Värmland Snow
3 8–10 March Mexico 26º Rally Guanajuato México Guanajuato León, Guanajuato Gravel
4 10–12 April Portugal 47º Vodafone Rally de Portugal Portugal Faro, Algarve Gravel
5 3–5 May Argentina 33º Philips 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 Rally Australia 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 Tarmac and gravel
13 15–17 November United Kingdom 69th Wales Rally GB Wales Cardiff, South Glamorgan Gravel

Calendar and event changes

  • 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 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.[12]
  • Rally de Catalunya, which had been the final event of 2012, was moved back to the final weekend of October become the penultimate event of the season.
  • 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.[13]
  • 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.[14]
  • The route of Rally Sweden will cross over the Norweigan border to include stages previously used in Rally Norway.[15]

Signed teams and drivers

World Rally Championship

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

Manufacturer entries
Constructor Team Tyre No. Drivers Co-drivers Rounds
Citroën
(Citroën DS3 WRC) 		France Abu Dhabi Citroën Total World Rally Team[16][17] M TBA Spain Dani Sordo[18][19] Spain Carlos del Barrio[18] 1
TBA United Arab Emirates Khalid Al Qassimi[20] United Kingdom Scott Martin[21] TBA
France Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team[22] M TBA Finland Mikko Hirvonen[23] Finland Jarmo Lehtinen[23] 1
TBA France Sébastien Loeb[10] Monaco Daniel Elena[10] 1
TBA Spain Dani Sordo[24] Spain Carlos del Barrio[24] TBA
Ford
(Ford Fiesta RS WRC) 		United Kingdom Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team[25] M TBA Russia Evgeny Novikov[26] Austria Ilka Minor[26] 1
TBA Norway Mads Østberg[27] Sweden Jonas Andersson[27] 1
TBA Qatar Nasser Al-Attiyah[25] Italy Giovanni Bernacchini[25] TBA
United Kingdom Qatar World Rally Team[28] M TBA Finland Juho Hänninen[29] Finland Tomi Tuominen[30] 1
TBA Belgium Thierry Neuville[26] Belgium Nicolas Gilsoul[26] 1
Volkswagen
(Volkswagen Polo R WRC)[4] 		Germany Volkswagen Motorsport[4] M TBA Finland Jari-Matti Latvala[31] Finland Miikka Anttila[31] 1
TBA France Sébastien Ogier[32] France Julien Ingrassia[32] 1
Major entries not registered to score manufacturer points
Citroën
(Citroën DS3 WRC) 		France Bryan Bouffier[28] M TBA France Bryan Bouffier[28] France Xavier Panseri[28] 1
Ford
(Ford Fiesta RS WRC) 		Czech Republic Jipocar Czech National Team[33] D TBA Czech Republic Martin Prokop[33] Czech Republic Michal Ernst[33] 1
France Julien Maurin[28] M TBA France Julien Maurin[28] France Nicolas Klinger[28] 1
Mini[34]
(Mini John Cooper Works WRC) 		Italy Bruno de Pianto[28] M TBA Poland Michał Kościuszko[28] Poland Maciej Szczepaniak[28] 1
United Kingdom Prodrive WRC Team[34][35] TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA
TBA TBA TBA TBA
Volkswagen
(Volkswagen Polo R WRC) 		Germany Volkswagen Motorsport[36] M TBA Norway Andreas Mikkelsen[36] Finland Mikko Markkula[36] TBA

Team changes

Ford and Mini will 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.[20] 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.[28]
  • 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.[25] 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.[28]
  • 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.[37] 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,[34] but Team Mini Portugal, Palmeirinha Rally and the Armindo Araújo World Rally Team were closed down.[28] Remnants of Team Mini Portugal submitted an entry for the Rallye Monte Carlo.[28]
  • 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.[32][38]

Driver changes

Sébastien Ogier – seen here at the 2011 Rallye Deutschland – will lead Volkswagen's foray into the World Rally Championship.[32]

WRC-2

The following teams and drivers are scheduled to compete in the WRC-2 championship during the 2013 season. With the formation of Group R and the restructuring of support categories, Group N Production Cars will also be run in the WRC-2 championship. Drivers competing in these cars will be eligible for the Group N Cup.[45]

Constructor Team Tyre No. Driver Co-driver Class Rounds
Mini
(Mini John Cooper Works S2000) 		Ukraine Mentos Ascania Racing[46] TBA TBA Ukraine Valeriy Gorban[46] TBA S TBA
TBA TBA Ukraine Oleksiy Kikireshko[46] TBA S TBA
Mitsubishi
(Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X) 		Mexico Ricardo Triviño[28] TBA TBA Mexico Ricardo Triviño[28] Spain Alex Haro[28] N 1
Škoda
(Škoda Fabia S2000) 		United Arab Emirates Rashid al Ketbi[28] TBA TBA United Arab Emirates Rashid al Ketbi[28] Germany Karina Hepperle[28] S 1
Germany Škoda Auto Deutschland[28] TBA TBA Germany Sepp Wiegand[47] Germany Frank Christian[28] S 1
Czech Republic Škoda Motorsport[48] TBA TBA Finland Esapekka Lappi[48] Finland Janne Ferm[48] S 1
Subaru
(Subaru Impreza WRX STi) 		Italy Lorenzo Bertelli[28] TBA TBA Italy Lorenzo Bertelli[28] Italy Lorenzo Granai[28] N 1
Austria Stohl Racing[28] TBA TBA Germany Armin Kremer[28] Germany Klaus Wicha[28] N 1
Belgium Symtec Racing[28][45] TBA TBA Ukraine Yuriy Protasov[28][45] Ukraine Kyrylo Nesvit[28][45] N 1
Icon Class
R4 Classification
within Group R
R5
S Super 2000
N Group N

Driver changes

WRC-3

The following teams and drivers are scheduled to compete in the WRC-3 championship during the 2013 season:

Constructor Team Tyre No. Driver Co-driver Class Rounds
Citroën
(Citroën DS3) 		France Sébastien Chardonnet[28] TBA TBA France Sébastien Chardonnet[28] France Thibault de la Haye[28] R3T 1
Icon Class
R1 Classification
within Group R‡
R2
R3

Notes:

  • ^‡ — Additional letters refer to the specific designation of a car within each class under Group R rules.

Driver changes

Changes

Class changes

The 2013 season will see the introduction of a new rally category, Group R.[50] 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.[51] 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. Major entries that are not registered as manufacturers must contest at least seven events – including at least one outside Europe – with a one or two-car team. These entries may only score points in a maximum of seven rounds.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.[52]

Rule changes

In December 2012, the FIA approved the development of special models of selected World Rally Cars that broke the homologation of the base model.[53] Under the rules governing the development of the category, a manufacturer must produce a minimum number of the road-going variant of a World Rally Car per year before that car is allowed compete.[54] If the manufacturer makes changes to its cars, the World Rally Car must be re-submitted for homologation. As a result of the December verdict, manufacturers would be permitted to make approved changes to their cars without the need to re-submit the car. These changes specifically relate to the positioning of the gear shift; as World Rally Cars are left-hand drive, the gear shift is located on the right hand side of the steering column. However, manufacturer may now build competition models of their cars with the gear shift located on the right hand side of the steering column.[53]

Event promoter

After the collapse of promoter North One Sport and parent company Convers Sports Initiatives in early 2012,[55][56] 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,[57] though as of December 2012, no contract had been signed as all parties were still in the process of securing the long-term future of the category.[58]

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