2019 Rally Sweden 67. Rally Sweden | |||
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Round 2 of 14 in the 2019 World Rally Championship
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Host country | Sweden | ||
Rally base | Torsby, Värmland | ||
Dates run | 14 – 17 February 2019 | ||
Start location | Karlstad trotting track, Karlstad | ||
Finish location | Torsby, Värmland | ||
Stages | 19 (316.80 km; 196.85 miles) [1] | ||
Stage surface | Snow | ||
Transport distance | 1,141.42 km (709.25 miles) | ||
Overall distance | 1,460.59 km (907.57 miles) | ||
Statistics | |||
Crews registered | 62 | ||
Crews | 61 at start, 55 at finish | ||
Overall results | |||
Overall winner | Ott Tänak Martin Järveoja Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 2:47:30.0 | ||
Power Stage winner | Ott Tänak Martin Järveoja Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT | ||
Support category results | |||
WRC-2 winner | Ole Christian Veiby Jonas Andersson Ole Christian Veiby 2:54:04.0 | ||
J-WRC winner | Tom Kristensson Henrik Appelskog Tom Kristensson 3:14:48.9 |
The 2019 Rally Sweden (also known as the Rally Sweden 2019) (Swedish : Svenska Rallyt 2019) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 14 and 17 February 2019. [2] It marked the sixty-seventh running of Rally Sweden and was the second round of the 2019 World Rally Championship. It was also the second round of the World Rally Championship-2 and the newly created WRC-2 Pro class, and the first round of the Junior World Rally Championship. The 2019 event was based in the town of Torsby in Värmland County and consists of nineteen special stages. The rally covered a total competitive distance of 319.17 km (198.32 mi).
Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the defending rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the defending manufacturers' winners. [3] Takamoto Katsuta and Marko Salminen were the defending winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category. [4] Denis Rådström and Johan Johansson were the reigning World Rally Championship-3 and defending Junior World Rally Championship winners, but didn't defend their WRC-3 title as the category was discontinued in 2019. [5]
Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja became the fourth non-Nordic crew to win the event. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the manufacturers' winners. [6] The Citroën Total crew of Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen took the victory in the WRC-2 Pro category, while Ole Christian Veiby and Jonas Andersson won the wider WRC-2 class, finishing first in the combined WRC-2 category. This marked the first R5 class victory in the WRC for the new Volkswagen Polo GTI R5. [7] The first round of the J-WRC championship was taken by Tom Kristensson and Henrik Appelskog crew in their maiden appearances. [8]
Jari-Matti Latvala surpassed the record for most starts in the history of the World Rally Championship with his 197th start. The previous record was set by Carlos Sainz, with 196 starts. [9]
Defending world champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia entered the round with an eight-point lead over the defending rally winners Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul. Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were third, a further four points behind. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT held a five-point lead over Citroën World Rally Team and the defending manufacturers' champions Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT. [10]
In the newly created World Rally Championship-2 Pro standings, Gus Greensmith and Elliott Edmondson held a seven-point lead ahead of Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen in the drivers' and co-drivers' standings respectively. In the teams' championship, M-Sport Ford WRT led Škoda Motorsport by seven points. [11]
In the World Rally Championship-2 standings, Yoann Bonato and Benjamin Boulloud led the drivers' and co-drivers' standings by seven points respectively. Adrien Fourmaux and Renaud Jamoul were second, with Ole Christian Veiby and Jonas Andersson in third in each standings, another slender three points behind. [11]
The following crews were entered into the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and WRC-2 Pro, the Junior World Rally Championship, and privateer entries not registered to score points in any championship. A total of sixty-two entries were received, with fourteen crews entered with World Rally Cars and twenty-three entered the World Rally Championship-2; of these, five were nominated to score points in the Pro class. A further thirteen entries were received for the Junior World Rally Championship.
The route of the 2019 rally is made up of 319.17 km (198.32 mi) in competitive stages, some 4.92 km (3.06 mi) longer than the 2018 event. [13] The Rämmen stage will return replace the Torntorp stage. Rämmen is due to be run as SS9 and SS12 and will run in the opposite direction to previous years. [14]
All dates and times are CET (UTC+1).
Date | Time | No. | Stage name | Distance |
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14 February | 9:00 | — | Skalla [ Shakedown ] | 6.86 km |
Leg 1 — 139.31 km | ||||
14 February | 20:08 | SS1 | Karlstad SSS 1 | 1.90 km |
15 February | 7:55 | SS2 | Hof-Finnskog 1 | 21.26 km |
9:08 | SS3 | Svullrya 1 | 24.88 km | |
9:59 | SS4 | Röjden 1 | 18.10 km | |
13:54 | SS5 | Hof-Finnskog 2 | 21.26 km | |
15:17 | SS6 | Svullrya 2 | 24.88 km | |
16:08 | SS7 | Röjden 2 | 18.10 km | |
17:04 | SS8 | Torsby 1 | 8.93 km | |
Leg 2 — 126.18 km | ||||
16 February | 7:44 | SS9 | Rämmen 1 | 23.13 km |
8:35 | SS10 | Hagfors 1 | 23.40 km | |
9:37 | SS11 | Vargåsen 1 | 14.21 km | |
13:02 | SS12 | Rämmen 2 | 23.13 km | |
13:53 | SS13 | Hagfors 2 | 23.40 km | |
15:08 | SS14 | Vargåsen 2 | 14.21 km | |
17:45 | SS15 | Karlstad SSS 2 | 1.90 km | |
19:30 | SS16 | Torsby Sprint | 2.80 km | |
Leg 3 — 51.31 km | ||||
17 February | 7:50 | SS16 | Likenäs 1 | 21.19 km |
9:51 | SS17 | Likenäs 2 | 21.19 km | |
12:18 | SS18 | Torsby 2 [Power Stage] | 8.93 km | |
Source: [15] |
Being first on the road meant Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia have to endure changeable conditions and unpredictable grip. As it turned out, it is highly risky. The six-time World Champions went off the road on Svullrya and stuck in the snowbank, which forced them to retire from the first leg. The other major victim was Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila crew, who went wide over a crest on the final stage of Friday and cost them nearly twenty-four minutes to get unstuck. They chose to run under Rally2 regulation so that they reduced the time loss to ten minutes. [16] [17]
The second leg of the rally appeared to be a total disaster for Teemu Suninen and Marko Salminen. Having led a rally for the first time ever, they beached their Fiesta at a left-hand corner, which dropped them down to eighth. [18] Worse still, at the afternoon loop, they hit a tree and damaged their roll cage, which forced them to retire from the day. Following the retirement of Suninen and Salminen, Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were comfortable in the lead. [19]
Eventually, The Estonian crew comfortably took their first snow-surfaced rally victory. With the win, they led in both the drivers' and co-drivers' standings for the first time ever in their career by seven points. Their team, defending manufacturers' champions Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT also led the championship by one point. Esapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm crew managed to keep themselves ahead of Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul with just a three seconds of advantage. [20]
Date | No. | Stage name | Distance | Winners | Car | Time | Class leaders |
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14 February | — | Skalla [ Shakedown ] | 6.86 km | Neuville / Gilsoul | Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC | 4:05.0 | — |
SS1 | Karlstad SSS 1 | 1.90 km | Neuville / Gilsoul | Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC | 1:34.9 | Neuville / Gilsoul | |
15 February | SS2 | Hof-Finnskog 1 | 21.26 km | Tänak / Järveoja | Toyota Yaris WRC | 10:09.1 | Tänak / Järveoja |
SS3 | Svullrya 1 | 24.88 km | Suninen / Salminen | Ford Fiesta WRC | 12:47.0 | ||
SS4 | Röjden 1 | 18.10 km | Tänak / Järveoja | Toyota Yaris WRC | 8:42.5 | ||
SS5 | Hof-Finnskog 2 | 21.26 km | Evans / Martin | Ford Fiesta WRC | 10:02.8 | Latvala / Anttila | |
SS6 | Svullrya 2 | 24.88 km | Suninen / Salminen | Ford Fiesta WRC | 12:43.9 | Suninen / Salminen | |
SS7 | Röjden 2 | 18.10 km | Evans / Martin | Ford Fiesta WRC | 10:02.8 | ||
SS8 | Torsby 1 | 8.93 km | Lappi / Ferm [lower-alpha 12] | Citroën C3 WRC | 5:50.0 | ||
16 February | SS9 | Rämmen 1 | 23.13 km | Latvala / Anttila | Toyota Yaris WRC | 11:23.1 | Tänak / Järveoja |
SS10 | Hagfors 1 | 23.40 km | Ogier / Ingrassia | Citroën C3 WRC | 12:33.1 | ||
SS11 | Vargåsen 1 | 14.21 km | Ogier / Ingrassia | Citroën C3 WRC | 8:14.9 | ||
SS12 | Rämmen 2 | 23.13 km | Tänak / Järveoja | Toyota Yaris WRC | 11:21.4 | ||
SS13 | Hagfors 2 | 23.40 km | Tänak / Järveoja | Toyota Yaris WRC | 12:36.8 | ||
SS14 | Vargåsen 2 | 14.21 km | Ogier / Ingrassia | Citroën C3 WRC | 8:20.1 | ||
SS15 | Karlstad SSS 2 | 1.90 km | Tänak / Järveoja | Toyota Yaris WRC | 1:36.0 | ||
SS16 | Torsby Sprint | 2.80 km | Neuville / Gilsoul | Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC | 1:56.8 | ||
17 February | SS17 | Likenäs 1 | 21.19 km | Latvala / Anttila | Toyota Yaris WRC | 11:06.3 | |
SS18 | Likenäs 2 | 21.19 km | Evans / Martin | Ford Fiesta WRC | 11:22.0 | ||
SS19 | Torsby 2 [Power Stage] | 8.93 km | Tänak / Järveoja | Toyota Yaris WRC | 5:15.1 | ||
Pos. | Drivers' championships | Co-drivers' championships | Manufacturers' championships | |||||||||
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Move | Driver | Points | Move | Co-driver | Points | Move | Manufacturer | Points | ||||
1 | 2 | Ott Tänak | 47 | 2 | Martin Järveoja | 47 | 2 | Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT | 58 | |||
2 | Thierry Neuville | 40 | Nicolas Gilsoul | 40 | 1 | Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT | 57 | |||||
3 | 2 | Sébastien Ogier | 31 | 2 | Julien Ingrassia | 31 | 1 | Citroën Total WRT | 47 | |||
4 | Kris Meeke | 21 | Sebastian Marshall | 21 | M-Sport Ford WRT | 30 | ||||||
5 | 9 | Esapekka Lappi | 19 | 9 | Janne Ferm | 19 |
Position | No. | Driver | Co-driver | Entrant | Car | Time | Difference | Points | ||
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Event | Class | Class | Event | |||||||
11 | 1 | 21 | Mads Østberg | Torstein Eriksen | Citroën Total | Citroën C3 R5 | 2:55:54.5 | 0.0 | 25 | 0 |
18 | 2 | 25 | Kalle Rovanperä | Jonne Halttunen | Škoda Motorsport | Škoda Fabia R5 | 2:59:13.7 | +3:19.2 | 18 | 0 |
19 | 3 | 34 | Gus Greensmith | Elliott Edmondson | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta R5 | 3:00:43.4 | +4:48.9 | 15 | 0 |
50 | 4 | 35 | Łukasz Pieniążek | Kamil Heller | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta R5 | 3:52:56.7 | +57:02.2 | 12 | 0 |
Retired SS19 | 26 | Eerik Pietarinen | Juhana Raitanen | Škoda Motorsport | Škoda Fabia R5 | Accident | 0 | 0 | ||
Results in bold denote first in the RC2 class, the class which both the WRC-2 Pro and WRC-2 championships run to.
Date | No. | Stage name | Distance | Winners | Car | Time | Class leaders |
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14 February | — | Skalla [ Shakedown ] | 6.86 km | Rovanperä / Halttunen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 4:14.7 | — |
SS1 | Karlstad SSS 1 | 1.90 km | Pietarinen / Raitanen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 1:39.3 | Pietarinen / Raitanen | |
15 February | SS2 | Hof-Finnskog 1 | 21.26 km | Rovanperä / Halttunen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 10:40.6 | Rovanperä / Halttunen |
SS3 | Svullrya 1 | 24.88 km | Østberg / Eriksen | Citroën C3 R5 | 13:29.9 | Østberg / Eriksen | |
SS4 | Röjden 1 | 18.10 km | Østberg / Eriksen Rovanperä / Halttunen | Citroën C3 R5 Škoda Fabia R5 | 9:11.9 | ||
SS5 | Hof-Finnskog 2 | 21.26 km | Rovanperä / Halttunen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 10:31.1 | ||
SS6 | Svullrya 2 | 24.88 km | Rovanperä / Halttunen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 13:06.8 | ||
SS7 | Röjden 2 | 18.10 km | Rovanperä / Halttunen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 9:01.3 | ||
SS8 | Torsby 1 | 8.93 km | Østberg / Eriksen | Citroën C3 R5 | 5:57.5 | ||
16 February | SS9 | Rämmen 1 | 23.13 km | Rovanperä / Halttunen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 12:02.8 | |
SS10 | Hagfors 1 | 23.40 km | Rovanperä / Halttunen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 13:11.8 | ||
SS11 | Vargåsen 1 | 14.21 km | Rovanperä / Halttunen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 8:32.4 | ||
SS12 | Rämmen 2 | 23.13 km | Rovanperä / Halttunen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 11:48.2 | ||
SS13 | Hagfors 2 | 23.40 km | Pietarinen / Raitanen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 13:08.7 | ||
SS14 | Vargåsen 2 | 14.21 km | Rovanperä / Halttunen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 8:37.2 | ||
SS15 | Karlstad SSS 2 | 1.90 km | Rovanperä / Halttunen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 1:38.5 | ||
SS16 | Torsby Sprint | 2.80 km | Rovanperä / Halttunen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 2:01.2 | ||
17 February | SS17 | Likenäs 1 | 21.19 km | Rovanperä / Halttunen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 11:51.3 | |
SS18 | Likenäs 2 | 21.19 km | Rovanperä / Halttunen | Škoda Fabia R5 | 11:51.9 | ||
SS19 | Torsby 2 | 8.93 km | Østberg / Eriksen | Citroën C3 R5 | 5:35.1 | ||
Pos. | Drivers' championships | Co-drivers' championships | Manufacturers' championships | |||||||||
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Move | Driver | Points | Move | Co-driver | Points | Move | Manufacturer | Points | ||||
1 | Gus Greensmith | 40 | Elliott Edmondson | 40 | M-Sport Ford WRT | 52 | ||||||
2 | Kalle Rovanperä | 36 | Jonne Halttunen | 36 | Škoda Motorsport | 36 | ||||||
3 | Mads Østberg | 25 | Torstein Eriksen | 25 | Citroën Total | 25 | ||||||
4 | Łukasz Pieniążek | 12 | Kamil Heller | 12 | ||||||||
5 | Eerik Pietarinen | 0 | Juhana Raitanen | 0 |
Results in bold denote first in the RC2 class, the class which both the WRC-2 Pro and WRC-2 championships run to.
Date | No. | Stage name | Distance | Winners | Car | Time | Class leaders |
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14 February | — | Skalla [ Shakedown ] | 6.86 km | Kristoffersson / Skjærmoen | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | 4:14.1 | — |
SS1 | Karlstad SSS 1 | 1.90 km | Huttunen / Linnaketo | Škoda Fabia R5 | 1:39.3 | Huttunen / Linnaketo | |
15 February | SS2 | Hof-Finnskog 1 | 21.26 km | Kristoffersson / Skjærmoen | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | 10:39.5 | Kristoffersson / Skjærmoen |
SS3 | Svullrya 1 | 24.88 km | Veiby / Andersson | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | 13:21.6 | Veiby / Andersson | |
SS4 | Röjden 1 | 18.10 km | Veiby / Andersson | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | 9:08.0 | ||
SS5 | Hof-Finnskog 2 | 21.26 km | Veiby / Andersson | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | 10:25.9 | ||
SS6 | Svullrya 2 | 24.88 km | Huttunen / Linnaketo | Škoda Fabia R5 | 13:14.8 | ||
SS7 | Röjden 2 | 18.10 km | Huttunen / Linnaketo | Škoda Fabia R5 | 9:02.3 | ||
SS8 | Torsby 1 | 8.93 km | Huttunen / Linnaketo [lower-alpha 12] | Škoda Fabia R5 | 5:50.0 | ||
16 February | SS9 | Rämmen 1 | 23.13 km | Veiby / Andersson | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | 12:00.0 | |
SS10 | Hagfors 1 | 23.40 km | Huttunen / Linnaketo | Škoda Fabia R5 | 13:09.4 | ||
SS11 | Vargåsen 1 | 14.21 km | Veiby / Andersson | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | 8:32.2 | ||
SS12 | Rämmen 2 | 23.13 km | Veiby / Andersson | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | 11:49.8 | ||
SS13 | Hagfors 2 | 23.40 km | Huttunen / Linnaketo | Škoda Fabia R5 | 13:05.0 | ||
SS14 | Vargåsen 2 | 14.21 km | Huttunen / Linnaketo | Škoda Fabia R5 | 8:31.8 | ||
SS15 | Karlstad SSS 2 | 1.90 km | Huttunen / Linnaketo | Škoda Fabia R5 | 1:37.4 | ||
SS16 | Torsby Sprint | 2.80 km | Huttunen / Linnaketo | Škoda Fabia R5 | 1:58.9 | ||
17 February | SS17 | Likenäs 1 | 21.19 km | Veiby / Andersson | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | 11:39.9 | |
SS18 | Likenäs 2 | 21.19 km | Veiby / Andersson | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | 11:42.4 | ||
SS19 | Torsby 2 | 8.93 km | Kristoffersson / Skjærmoen | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | 5:34.2 | ||
Pos. | Drivers' championships | Co-drivers' championships | ||||||
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Move | Driver | Points | Move | Co-driver | Points | |||
1 | 2 | Ole Christian Veiby | 40 | 2 | Jonas Andersson | 40 | ||
2 | 1 | Yoann Bonato | 25 | 1 | Benjamin Boulloud | 25 | ||
3 | 1 | Adrien Fourmaux | 18 | 1 | Renaud Jamoul | 18 | ||
4 | Emil Bergkvist | 18 | Patrik Barth | 18 | ||||
5 | Johan Kristoffersson | 15 | Stig Rune Skjærmoen | 15 |
Date | No. | Stage name | Distance | Winners | Car | Time | Class leaders |
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14 February | — | Skalla [ Shakedown ] | 6.86 km | Torn / Sikk | Ford Fiesta R2 | 4:38.3 | — |
SS1 | Karlstad SSS 1 | 1.90 km | Rådström / Johansson | Ford Fiesta R2 | 1:50.9 | Rådström / Johansson | |
15 February | SS2 | Hof-Finnskog 1 | 21.26 km | Sesks / Caune | Ford Fiesta R2 | 11:33.9 | Sesks / Caune |
SS3 | Svullrya 1 | 24.88 km | Kristensson / Appelskog | Ford Fiesta R2 | 14:36.5 | ||
SS4 | Röjden 1 | 18.10 km | Rådström / Johansson | Ford Fiesta R2 | 10:00.5 | Kristensson / Appelskog | |
SS5 | Hof-Finnskog 2 | 21.26 km | Rådström / Johansson | Ford Fiesta R2 | 11:27.3 | ||
SS6 | Svullrya 2 | 24.88 km | Rådström / Johansson | Ford Fiesta R2 | 14:36.1 | Rådström / Johansson | |
SS7 | Röjden 2 | 18.10 km | Rådström / Johansson | Ford Fiesta R2 | 9:54.1 | ||
SS8 | Torsby 1 | 8.93 km | Rådström / Johansson | Ford Fiesta R2 | 6:31.6 | ||
16 February | SS9 | Rämmen 1 | 23.13 km | Rådström / Johansson | Ford Fiesta R2 | 13:00.9 | |
SS10 | Hagfors 1 | 23.40 km | Rådström / Johansson | Ford Fiesta R2 | 14:18.2 | ||
SS11 | Vargåsen 1 | 14.21 km | Rådström / Johansson | Ford Fiesta R2 | 9:22.2 | ||
SS12 | Rämmen 2 | 23.13 km | Rådström / Johansson | Ford Fiesta R2 | 12:51.3 | ||
SS13 | Hagfors 2 | 23.40 km | Sesks / Caune | Ford Fiesta R2 | 14:20.2 | Kristensson / Appelskog | |
SS14 | Vargåsen 2 | 14.21 km | Torn / Sikk | Ford Fiesta R2 | 9:27.3 | ||
SS15 | Karlstad SSS 2 | 1.90 km | Torn / Sikk | Ford Fiesta R2 | 1:48.2 | ||
SS16 | Torsby Sprint | 2.80 km | Solans / Barreiro | Ford Fiesta R2 | 2:14.6 | ||
17 February | SS17 | Likenäs 1 | 21.19 km | Rådström / Johansson | Ford Fiesta R2 | 13:05.0 | |
SS18 | Likenäs 2 | 21.19 km | Sesks / Caune | Ford Fiesta R2 | 12:49.9 | ||
SS19 | Torsby 2 | 8.93 km | Rådström / Johansson | Ford Fiesta R2 | 6:01.5 | ||
Pos. | Drivers' championships | Co-drivers' championships | Nations' championships | |||||||||
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Move | Driver | Points | Move | Co-driver | Points | Move | Country | Points | ||||
1 | Tom Kristensson | 26 | Henrik Appelskog | 26 | Sweden | 25 | ||||||
2 | Roland Poom | 18 | Ken Järveoja | 18 | Estonia | 18 | ||||||
3 | Jan Solans | 16 | Mauro Barreiro | 16 | Spain | 15 | ||||||
4 | Dennis Rådström | 16 | Johan Johansson | 16 | United Kingdom | 12 | ||||||
5 | Tom Williams | 12 | Phil Hall | 12 | United States | 10 |
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The 2018 Rally Italia Sardegna was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 7 and 10 June 2018. It marked the fifteenth running of Rally Italia Sardegna, and was the seventh round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships. The event was based in Alghero in Sardinia and consisted of twenty special stages totalling 313.46 km (194.78 mi) in competitive kilometres.
The 2019 FIA World Rally Championship was the forty-seventh season of the World Rally Championship, a rallying championship recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) as the highest class of international rallying. Teams and crews competed in fourteen events for the World Rally Championships for Drivers, Co-drivers and Manufacturers. Crews were free to compete in cars complying with World Rally Car and Group R regulations; however, only Manufacturers competing with World Rally Cars homologated under regulations introduced in 2017 were eligible to score points in the Manufacturers' championship. The series was once again supported by the WRC2 category at every round, which was split into 2 classifications: WRC2 Pro for manufacturer entries and WRC2 for private entries, and by Junior WRC at selected events. WRC3 was discontinued in 2018.
The 2019 Rally Mexico was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 7 and 10 March 2019. It marked the sixteenth running of Rally Mexico and was the third round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and the newly created WRC-2 Pro class. The 2019 event was based in the town of León in Guanajuato and consisted of twenty-one special stages. The rally covered a total competitive distance of 316.51 km (196.67 mi).
The 2019 Tour de Corse was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 28 and 31 March 2019. It marked the sixty-second running of Tour de Corse and was the fourth round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and the newly created WRC-2 Pro class. It was also the second round of the Junior World Rally Championship. The 2019 event was based in the town of Bastia in Corsica, and was contested over fourteen special stages with a total a competitive distance of 347.51 km (215.93 mi).
The 2019 Rally Argentina was a motor racing event for rally cars that held over four days between 25 and 28 April 2019. It marked the thirty-ninth running of Rally Argentina, and was the fifth round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and the newly created WRC-2 Pro class. The 2019 event was based in Villa Carlos Paz in Córdoba Province and consisted of eighteen special stages totalling 347.50 km (215.93 mi) competitive kilometres.
The 2019 Rally de Portugal was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 30 May and 2 June 2019. It marked the fifty-third running of Rally de Portugal, and was the seventh round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and the newly created WRC-2 Pro class. The rally was also part of the Portuguese national championship and Peugeot Rally Cup Ibérica. The 2019 event was based in Matosinhos in Porto and consisted of twenty special stages totalling 311.47 km (193.54 mi) competitive kilometres.
The 2019 Rally Italia Sardegna was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 13 and 16 June 2019. It marked the sixteenth running of Rally Italia Sardegna and was the eighth round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and the newly created WRC-2 Pro class. It was also the third round of the Junior World Rally Championship. The 2019 event was based in Alghero in Sardinia, and was contested over nineteen special stages with a total a competitive distance of 310.52 km (192.95 mi).
The 2019 Rallye Deutschland was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 22 and 25 August 2019. It marked the thirty-seventh running of Rallye Deutschland and was the tenth round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and the newly created WRC-2 Pro class. The 2019 event was based at the Bostalsee in Saarland, and was contested over nineteen special stages with a total a competitive distance of 344.04 km (213.78 mi).
The 2019 Rally Turkey is a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 12 and 15 September 2019. It marked the twelfth running of Rally Turkey and was the eleventh round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and the newly created WRC-2 Pro class. The 2019 event was based in Marmaris in Muğla Province, and was contested over seventeen special stages with a total a competitive distance of 310.10 km (192.69 mi).
The 2019 Wales Rally GB was a motor racing event for rally cars held over four days between 3 and 6 October 2019. It marked the seventy-fifth running of Wales Rally GB and was the twelfth round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and the newly created WRC-2 Pro class. It was also the final round of the Junior World Rally Championship. The 2019 event was based in Llandudno in Conwy, and was contested over twenty-two special stages with a total a competitive distance of 312.75 km (194.33 mi).
The 2020 Rally Sweden was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 13 and 16 February 2020. It marked the sixty-eighth running of Rally Sweden and was the second round of the 2020 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. It was also the first round of the Junior World Rally Championship. The 2020 event was based in the town of Torsby in Värmland County and consists of eleven special stages. The rally was scheduled to cover a total competitive distance of 301.26 km (187.19 mi), but was shortened to 171.64 km (106.65 mi) due to a lack of snow.
The 2021 Rally Finland was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over three days between 1 and 3 October 2021. It marked the seventieth running of the Rally Finland. The event was the tenth round of the 2021 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. The 2021 event was based in Jyväskylä in Central Finland and was contested over nineteen special stages totalling 287.11 km (178.40 mi) in competitive distance.