2007 Intercontinental Rally Challenge

2007 Intercontinental Rally Challenge

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The 2007 Intercontinental Rally Challenge was the second season of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. The season consisted of nine rounds and began on March 9, with the Safari Rally. The season ended on November 11 with the China Rally. Enrique García Ojeda won the title ahead of Nicolas Vouilloz and Andrea Navarra.

Calendar

Round	Dates	Event title	Surface
1	March 9–3	Safari Rally	Gravel
2	May 11–13	Rally of Turkey	Gravel
3	June 22–24	Belgium Ypres Westhoek Rally	Asphalt
4	July 12–14	Rally Russia	Gravel
5	August 2–4	Rali Vinho da Madeira	Asphalt
6	August 24–26	Barum Rally Zlín	Asphalt
7	September 27–29	Rallye San Remo	Asphalt
8	October 25–27	Rallye International du Valais	Asphalt
9	November 9–11	China Rally	Gravel

Selected entries

Entrant	Constructor	Car	Driver	Co-driver	Rounds
Abarth & Co. Spa	Abarth	Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000	Andrea Navarra	Guido D'Amore	1–4
				Dario D'Esposito	5–8
			Umberto Scandola	Luigi Pirollo	1, 3
				Guido D'Amore	7–8
			Anton Alén	Timo Alanne	2, 4, 6
			Giandomenico Basso	Mitia Dotta	5, 7
Fiat Motorsport Turkey			Volkan Isik	Kaan Özşenler	2–3, 5–6
H.F. Grifone SRL			Corrado Fontana	Renzo Casazza	3, 5–6
Cersanit Rally Team			Michał Sołowow	Maciek Baran	3, 6
Autostal Duindistel			Pieter Tsjoen	Eddy Chevaillier	3
			Freddy Loix		5–8
Fiat Vodafone			José Pedro Fontes	Fernando Prata	5
Island Motorsport			Renato Travaglia	Lorenzo Granai	6–7
Zero4Piu			Philippe Roux	Eric Jordan	8
Ralliart	Mitsubishi Ralliart	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	Hideaki Miyoshi	Hakaru Ichino	1
Island Motorsport			Renato Travaglia	Lorenzo Granai	2–5
Boyla Automotorsport			Dimitar Iliev	Yanaki Yanakiev	2–3, 5–6
Cersanit Rally Team			Michał Sołowow	Maciek Baran	2
Autostal Duindistel			Larry Cols	Filip Goddé	3
			Bob Colsoul	Tom Colsoul	3
			Melisa Debackere	Isidoor Smets	3
			Eddy Snaet	Filip Deplancke	3
Prosport			Andrey Zhigunov	Igor Ter-Oganesiants	4
			Andrey Lagunov	Sergey Grudina	4
			Dmitriy Lagunov	Boris Kostyrko	4
Euro Oil Team			Vaclav Pech	Petr Uhel	6
Mediasport Czezh National Team			Vaclav Arazim	Julius Gal	6
Tescoma Rally Team			Roman Kresta	Petr Gross	6
Ralliart Italy			Paolo Andreucci	Anna Andreussi	7
			Matteo Gamba	Giancarla Guzzi	7
MRF Tyres			Jussi Valimaki	Jarkko Kalliolepo	9
			Katsuhiko Taguchi	Mark Stacey	9
Mitsubishi Lancer Team			Brian Green	Fleur Pedersen	9
			Jixiang Wu	Zhongqi Li	9
			Fenghze Xie	Tsung Yu Hsieh	9
Mitsubishi Lancer Wan Yu Team			David Higgins	Ieuan Thomas	9
			Qingxian Hua	Jian Zhang	9
			Fan Fan	Shu Fan	9
KST Rally Team			Martin Rowe	Dale Moscatt	9
			Hongjie Wei	Hongwei Song	9
Wu Ming Rally Team			Lang Xu	Yu Huang	9
			Qinghong Li	Hongyu Pan	9
Peugeot Sport España	Peugeot	Peugeot 207 S2000	Nicolas Vouilloz	Nicolas Klinger	2–8
			Enrique García Ojeda	Jordi Barrades Costa	2–8
Peugeot Team Belux			Bernd Casier	Frédéric Miclotte	3, 5–8
Racing Lions SRL			Luca Rossetti	Matteo Chiarcossi	3, 7
			Gilles Panizzi	Xavier Panseri	7
Peugeot Total Hungaria			János Tóth	Bea Bahor	3, 6
				Robert Tagai	7
Peugeot Sport Sweden			Jimmy Joge	Mattias Andersson	4
				Mathias Gardman	6
Peugeot Total			Bruno Magalhães	Paulo Grave	5, 7
BSA Team			Brice Tirabassi	Fabrice Gordon	7
			Julien Pressac	Thibault Gorczyca	7
Lugano Racing Team			Christian Jaquillard	Christiane Jaquillard	8
PH Sport	Citroën	Citroën C2 S1600	Simon Jean-Joseph	Jacques Boyere	2–3, 5–6
		Citroën C2 R2			4
			Laurent Viana	Isabelle Galmiche	6
JAS Motorsport	Honda	Honda Civic Type-R R3	Daniel Solà	Oscar Sanchez	2–6
				Carlos Del Barrio	7
			Luca Betti	Simone Cuneo	2
				Giovanni Bernacchini	3–8
Belgian VW Club	Volkswagen	Volkswagen Polo S2000	Freddy Loix	Robin Buysmans	3
ACE Racing			Tomasz Czopik	Glib Zagoriy	3

Drivers standings

• The best seven scores from each driver count towards the championship.

Pos Driver SAF TUR YPR RUS MAD ZLI SAN VAL CHN  Pts  1 Enrique García Ojeda 3 2 2 4 2 6 2 47 2 Nicolas Vouilloz 1 Ret 3 10 1 3 1 42 3 Andrea Navarra 3 2 3 4 Ret 7 10 Ret 32 4 Luca Rossetti 1 1 20 5 Giandomenico Basso 1 2 18 6 Umberto Scandola Ret 5 4 3 15 7 Anton Alén 4 1 Ret 15 8 Bernd Casier 4 6 5 14 Ret 13 9 David Higgins 2 10 10 Bruno Magalhães 3 Ret 8 11 Lang Xu 3 8 12 Hideaki Miyoshi 4 8 13 Václav Pech 3 6 14 Martin Rowe 6 6 15 Asad Answar 7 6 16 Freddy Loix Ret Ret Ret 11 4 5 17 Roman Kresta 4 5 18 José Pedro Fontes 5 5 19 Brian Green 7 5 20 Sammy Aslam 8 5 21 Renato Travaglia 5 13 Ret Ret 8 Ret 5 22 Marco Cavigioli 16 21 5 15 Ret 20 4 23 Paolo Andreucci 5 4 24 Luca Betti 21 Ret Ret Ret 22 30 9 4 25 Qingxian Hua 9 4 26 Robert Gow 19 4 27 Simon Jean-Joseph 8 10 11 8 10 4 28 Volkan Isik 6 Ret 14 13 3 29 Václav Arazim 6 3 30 Corrado Fontana Ret 7 Ret 3 31 Patrick Snijers 7 3 32 Andrey Zhigunov 7 3 33 Philippe Roux 10 3 34 Shinichiro Karakama 10 3 35 Navraj Hans 25 3 36 Tomasz Czopik 7 11 Ret 2 37 Dimitar Iliev Ret 8 Ret Ret 2 38 Boris Fedotov 8 2 39 Gilles Panizzi 8 2 40 Jean-Philippe Radoux 11 2 41 Chunlei Shi 11 2 42 Gergely Szabo 9 17 1 43 Alexandre Camacho 9 1 44 Devis Cremona 12 1 45 Fenghze Xie 12 1 Pos Driver SAF TUR YPR RUS MAD ZLI SAN VAL CHN  Pts

Key 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) Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Cancelled (C) Blank Withdrew entry from the event (WD)