![]() ![]() ![]() The 1973 World Rally Championship was the inaugural season of the WRC and began with the Monte Carlo Rally on 19 January.Īlpine-Renault won the first manufacturer's world championship with its Alpine A110, after which Lancia took the title three years in a row with the Ferrari V6-powered Lancia Stratos HF, the first car designed and manufactured specifically for rallying. The World Rally Championship was formed from well-known international rallies, nine of which were previously part of the International Championship for Manufacturers (IMC), which was contested from 1970 to 1972. Junior WRC is also contested on five events of the World Rally Championship calendar. The WRC also features two support championships, WRC2 and WRC3, which are contested on the same events and stages as the WRC, but with progressively lower performance and running costs of the cars permitted. Amongst their leading drivers are Loeb, Ogier, Thierry Neuville, Ott Tänak, Dani Sordo, Elfyn Evans and Kalle Rovanperä. Hyundai, Toyota and M-Sport Ford are the current competing manufacturers. Rallies that have frequently appeared in the championship have included Monte Carlo Rally, Tour de Corse, Sanremo, Acropolis, Safari Rally, and national rallies of Great Britain, Finland, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina. ![]() Other drivers who became well known primarily through their WRC careers include Michèle Mouton, Henri Toivonen, Jari-Matti Latvala and Mikko Hirvonen. ĭrivers Sébastien Loeb, Sébastien Ogier, Juha Kankkunen, Tommi Mäkinen and Colin McRae all became WRC champions. Each rally is usually split into 15–25 special stages which are run against the clock on up to 350 kilometres of closed roads. The series currently consists of 13 three to four-day rally events driven on surfaces ranging from gravel and tarmac to snow and ice. There are separate championships for drivers, co-drivers, manufacturers and teams. The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is the highest level of global competition in the motorsport discipline of rallying, owned and governed by the FIA. ![]()
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