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The 1984 British Open Rally Championship season consisted of six rallies held across the British Isles and was won by the Scot Jimmy McRae. He may have only won the final rally of the season at the Manx Rally to clinch the 1984 title but he got four podium finishes, enough to beat out his rival and triple winner Hannu Mikkola, the defending World Rally Champion from Joensuu, Finland. [1]
| # | Event | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Breakdown Rally (York) | Hannu Mikkola/Arne Hertz | Jimmy McRae/Mike Nicholson | Russell Brookes/Mike Broad |
| 2 | Rothman's Circuit of Ireland (Belfast) | Billy Coleman/Ronan Morgan | Ernest Kidney/Seamus McCanny | Davy Evans/Roy Kernaghan |
| 3 | Castrol Welsh Rally (Llandrindod) | Hannu Mikkola/Arne Hertz | Russell Brookes/Mike Broad | Malcolm Wilson/Nigel Harris |
| 4 | Lloyds Bowmaker Scottish Rally (Glasgow) | Hannu Mikkola/Arne Hertz | Jimmy McRae/Mike Nicholson | Russell Brookes/Mike Broad |
| 5 | Rentatruck Ulster Rally (Belfast) | Walter Röhrl/Christian Geistdörfer | Russell Brookes/Mike Broad | Jimmy McRae/Mike Nicholson |
| 6 | Rothmans Manx International Rally (Douglas) | Jimmy McRae/Mike Nicholson | Bertie Fisher/Austin Frazer | Tony Pond/Rob Arthur |
| Pos | Driver | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Jimmy McRae | 2nd | DNF | 4th | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 57 |
| 2 |  Hannu Mikkola | 1st | 1st | 1st | DNF | 45 | ||
| 3 | Russell Brookes | 3rd | DNF | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | DNF | 44 |
| 4 |  Per Eklund | 4th | 5th | 4th | DNF | 7th | 26 | |
| 5 | Bertie Fisher | DNF | 6th | DNF | 4th | 2nd | 25 | |
| 6 |  Billy Coleman | 1st | 5th | 21 | ||||
| 7 | Ian Tilke | 5th | 7th | 8th | 7th | 17 | ||
| 8 |  Walter Röhrl | 1st | 15 | |||||
| 9 | Davy Evans | 3rd | 14th | 6th | 15 | |||
| 10 | Tim Brise | 7th | 8th | 5th | DNF | 13 | ||
| 11 | Ernest Kidney | 2nd | 12 | |||||
| 12 | Malcolm Wilson | DNF | 3rd | DNF | DNF | 10 | ||
| 13 | Tony Pond | 3rd | 10 | |||||
| 14 | John Price | 4th | 10th | 9 | ||||
| 15 | Ian Corkill | 4th | 8 | |||||
| 16 | Kenny McKinstry | 6th | 8th | 8 | ||||
| 17 | Alan Johnston | 5th | 10th | DNF | 7 | |||
| 18 | Theo Bengry | 5th | 6 | |||||
| 19 | David Mann | 10th | 7th | DNF | 10th | 6 | ||
| 20 | John Weatherley | 6th | 5 | |||||
| 21 | Donald Heggie | 6th | 5 | |||||
| 22 | Cyril Bolton | 6th | DNF | 5 | ||||
| 23 | Vince Wetton | 7th | 4 | |||||
| 24 | Mark Lovell | 9th | 37th | DNF | 9th | 4 | ||
| 25 | Chuck Nicholson | 8th | 3 | |||||
| 26 | Russell Gooding | 8th | 3 | |||||
| 27 | Mikael Sundström | DNF | 8th | 3 | ||||
| 28 | Mike Jackson | 9th | 2 | |||||
| 29 | Warren Craig | 9th | 2 | |||||
| 30 | Chris Lord | DNF | DNF | 9th | DNF | 2 | ||
| 31 | Pat Dunnion | 9th | 2 | |||||
| 32 | Julian Roderick | 10th | 1 | |||||
| 33 | Wilson Girvan | 10th | 1 | |||||
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