World Rally Championship-2

The FIA World Rally Championship-2 or WRC-2 (formerly known as Super 2000 World Rally Championship or S-WRC), is a companion rally series to the World Rally Championship, and is driven on the same stages. WRC-2 is limited to production-based cars homologated under the Super 2000, N4, R5 rules. The series began in 2010 and split the Production World Rally Championship (P-WRC), which was previously open to both Super 2000 and Group N4 cars, into two separate competitions, both of which received their own FIA titles. There was also a World Rally Championship Cup for Teams within the S-WRC but this was discontiniued after 2010.

Models

Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000, one of the most popular Super 2000 rally cars

The following Super 2000 rally cars are currently in production and eligible to compete in SWRC:

The following cars are going or are built under the R5 rules or RRC (Regional Race Car) rules:

The following cars are built under the R4 or N4 rules and will be eligible to enter WRC-2 and the Production Cup:

Calendar

From 2010 to 2012(as S-WRC), there are 10 qualifying rallies for the new series, and at the time of registration entrants must nominate seven rallies, including two outside Europe, in which to score points. The S-WRC is in addition to the WRC Cup for S2000 Teams, which was announced earlier in the year. The S-WRC Teams cup was scraped from 2011 onwards.

From 2013 there's no fixed calendar. The teams can participate in any round of the season with the requirement that 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.

Champions

Year Champion Car 2nd Car 3rd Car
WRC-2
2015 Qatar Nasser Al-Attiyah Ford Fiesta RRC
Škoda Fabia R5
Ukraine Yuriy Protasov Ford Fiesta RRC Finland Esapekka Lappi Škoda Fabia R5
2014 Qatar Nasser Al-Attiyah Ford Fiesta RRC Finland Jari Ketomaa Ford Fiesta R5 Italy Lorenzo Bertelli Ford Fiesta RRC
Ford Fiesta R5
2013 Poland Robert Kubica Citroen DS3 RRC Qatar Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari Ford Fiesta RRC Ukraine Yuriy Protasov Subaru Impreza STi
Ford Fiesta RRC
Ford Fiesta R5
S-WRC
2012 Republic of Ireland Craig Breen Ford Fiesta S2000 Sweden Per-Gunnar Andersson Proton Satria Neo S2000 Saudi Arabia Yazeed Al-Rajhi Ford Fiesta RRC
2011 Finland Juho Hänninen Škoda Fabia S2000 Estonia Ott Tänak Ford Fiesta S2000 Czech Republic Martin Prokop Ford Fiesta S2000
2010 Spain Xavier Pons Ford Fiesta S2000 Sweden Patrik Sandell Škoda Fabia S2000 Czech Republic Martin Prokop Ford Fiesta S2000
 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Qatar21--
2 Finland111
3 Ireland1---
3 Spain1---
3 Poland1---
6 Sweden2--
7 Ukraine-11-
8 Estonia1--
9 Czech Republic--2-
10 Italy--1-
10 Saudi Arabia--1-

Wins

Event wins
Driver Total
1 Poland Robert Kubica 5
2 Finland Juho Hänninen 4
- Republic of Ireland Craig Breen 4
- Finland Jari Ketomaa 4
5 Sweden Per-Gunnar Andersson 3
- Estonia Ott Tänak 3
7 Spain Xavier Pons 2
- Sweden Patrik Sandell 2
- New Zealand Hayden Paddon 2
- Qatar Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari 2
11 Norway Andreas Mikkelsen 1
- Czech Republic Martin Prokop 1
- Italy Lorenzo Bertelli 1
- Portugal Bernardo Sousa 1
- Germany Sepp Wiegand 1
- Saudi Arabia Yazeed Al-Rajhi 1
- Finland Esapekka Lappi 1

Wins by cars
Car Total
1 United Kingdom Ford Fiesta S2000 14
2 Czech Republic Škoda Fabia S2000 12
3 France Citroën DS3 RRC 5
4 United Kingdom Ford Fiesta RRC 3
5 Malaysia Proton Satria Neo S2000 2
6 United Kingdom Ford Fiesta R5 1

Gallery

See also

Footnotes

  1. The Fiesta R5 is completely brand new model based on facelifted production model - Fiesta ST.
  2. Alltough this car is built under the RRC rules, Prodrive still uses the S2000 label for this car.

References

External links

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