World Rally Championship-3 (2013–2018)

The FIA World Rally Championship-3, or WRC-3 (formerly known as Production World Rally Championship, or PWRC), is a companion rally series to the World Rally Championship, and is driven on the same stages. WRC-3 is limited to production-based cars homologated under the R1, R2 and R3 rules. The series began in 2002, replacing the FIA Group N Rally Championship and it was for Group N cars. The cars used were modified road cars, often based on turbocharged, four wheel drive versions of standard small cars such as the Subaru Impreza WRX and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, although a wide range of vehicles is homologated by the FIA for use in Group N. Apart from FIA sanctioned events, a lot of rallies at national levels are run under Group N.

Calendar

Until 2012 PWRC was support series to the WRC in selected rounds. Like S-WRC, the PWRC calendar consisted of 8 races(as of 2012) with 2 rallies outside Europe. For 2013 the fixed calendar was scrapped. Instead, teams and drivers competing in the series are free to contest any of thirteen rallies that form the 2013 World Rally Championship. They must nominate up to six events to score points in, and their best five results from these six events will count towards their final championship points score.

Changes for 2013

From 2013, the Production WRC was renamed WRC-3. With the introduction of Group R the new WRC-3 was to be for 2WD production based cars from Group R1, R2 and R3. As a result no other cars under Group N and A were to be homologated. The current N4 cars were supposed to compete instead in WRC-2, alongside the current S2000, R4 and R5 cars.

Champions

Nasser Al-Attiyah driving a Subaru Impreza WRX STI at the 2006 Acropolis Rally.

Season	Champion	Car
WRC-3
2014	Stéphane Lefebvre	Citroën DS3 R3T
2013	Sébastien Chardonnet	Citroën DS3 R3T
PWRC
2012	Benito Guerra	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
2011	Hayden Paddon	Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2010	Armindo Araújo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
2009	Armindo Araújo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
2008	Andreas Aigner	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
2007	Toshi Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2006	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2005	Toshi Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2004	Niall McShea	Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2003	Martin Rowe	Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2002	Karamjit Singh	Proton Pert
FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers
2001	Gabriel Pozzo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 6
2000	Manfred Stohl	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 6
1999	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6 / Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 5
1998	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 4 / Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 5
1997	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 3
1996	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 3
1995	Rui Madeira	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 2
1994	Jesús Puras	Ford Escort RS Cosworth
1993	Alex Fassina	Mazda 323 GTR
1992	Grégoire De Mévius	Nissan Sunny GTI-R
1991	Grégoire De Mévius	Mazda 323 GTX
1990	Alain Oreille	Renault 5 GT Turbo
1989	Alain Oreille	Renault 5 GT Turbo
1988	Pascal Gaban	Mazda 323 4WD
1987	Alex Fiorio	Lancia Delta HF Integrale

1	France	4	-	1
1	Uruguay	4	-	-
2	Belgium	3	-	-
2	Portugal	3	-	-
3	United Kingdom	2	1	-	-
4	Japan	2	-	-	-
4	Italy	2	-	-	-
4	Austria	2	-	-	-
6	Mexico	1		-	-
6	Qatar	1	-		-
6	Spain	1	-		-
6	Malaysia	1	-		-
6	Argentina	1	-		-
7	Ireland	-	1		-
8	Slovakia	-	-	1	-
Total		-	-	-	-

Statistics

Drivers with most race wins

Driver	Titles	Wins
Gustavo Trelles	4	24
Toshihiro Arai	2	14
Manfred Stohl	1	9
Ed Ordynski	0	8
Nicolas Fuchs	0	6
Patrik Flodin	0	6
Gabriel Pozzo	1	6
Nasser Al-Attiyah	1	5
Gregoire de Mevius	2	5
Alex Fiorio	1	5
Alain Oreille	2	5
Hayden Paddon	1	5
Jorge Recalde	0	5

See also

• Junior World Rally Championship
• Super 2000 World Rally Championship

External links

• PWRC at WRC.com