The 2019 FIA World Rally Championship-2 Pro was the first season of the World Rally Championship-2 Pro, an

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championship for

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s that is recognised by the

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as the second-highest tier of international rallying. The category was created in 2019 and open to cars entered by manufacturers and complying with Group R5 regulations. The World Rally Championship-2 was open to privately entered cars.

Calendar

Entries

Crew changes

Škoda Motorsport Škoda Motorsport is the division of Czech car manufacturer Škoda Auto responsible for motorsport activities. The team had competed as a manufacturer in the World Rally Championship between 1999 and 2005 and Intercontinental Rally Challenge (be ...

scaled back their involvement in the championship to a single two-car team. The team retained defending drivers' champion Jan Kopecký and

Kalle Rovanperä Kalle Rovanperä (; born 1 October 2000 in Jyväskylä) is a Finnish professional rally driver, who competes in the World Rally Championship for Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, alongside co-driver Jonne Halttunen. He is the reigning World Champion. ...

, while

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champions

Pontus Tidemand Pontus Johan Tidemand (born 10 December 1990) is a Swedish rally and rallycross driver. He is the 2017 WRC-2 champion and a previous M-Sport and Škoda Motorsport driver. Pontus is the son of Swedish rally driver Tomas Tidemand and ex-rally c ...

and Jonas Andersson left the team. Tidemand later joined WRC team M-Sport Ford on a part-time basis, while Andersson remained in the World Rally Championship-2, partnering

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. M-Sport Ford WRT will also enter two cars, one for Polish driver

Łukasz Pieniążek Łukasz Pieniążek (born 19 September 1990) is a Polish people, Polish Rallying, rally driver. Currently, He drives for M-Sport World Rally Team, M-Sport Ford in the WRC-2 Pro category. Rally career Pieniążek made his World Rally Championshi ...

and the other for

Gus Greensmith Fergus "Gus" Greensmith (born 26 December 1996) is a British rally driver. Rally career Greensmith's family owns fuel and lubricants distributor Crown Oil. A former youth goalkeeper for Manchester City F.C. and karter before moving into the r ...

and Elliott Edmondson. Greensmith will also make his World Rally Car début with M-Sport Ford WRT. Reigning two-time French Rally champion

Yoann Bonato Yoann Bonato (born 13 May 1983) is a French rally driver. He currently competes in the French Rally Championship and the WRC-2, the premier support category of the World Rally Championship, with customer Citroën team CHL Sport Auto. He also ...

, who competed for privateer Citroën team CHL Sport Auto in 2018, was entered by the factory Citroën team for Monte Carlo, before Citroën withdrew their entry from the rally, leaving Bonato to run as a WRC-2 entrant. After driving for Citroën's WRC team in 2018, Mads Østberg moved to the WRC-2 in 2019, staying with Citroën's factory team in a different C3 R5, in conjunction with DG Sport. Although not a member of Škoda's factory roster, 2018 Finnish Rally Champion Eerik Pietarinen was nominated to score points for Škoda alongside factory driver

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. Škoda would repeat this practice with 18-year-old Bolivian driver

Marco Bulacia Wilkinson Marco Bulacia Wilkinson (born 27 September 2000) is a Bolivian rally driver. He currently partners with co-driver Marcelo Der Ohannesian in the World Rally Championship-2, WRC-2 category. His younger brother Bruno is a rally driver also. Rally c ...

, who is set to participate in the pro-class in the South American double-header in

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and

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, joining Rovanperä on the latter rally.

Results and standings

Season summary

Scoring system

Points were awarded to the top ten classified finishers in each event.

Drivers' standings

Co-Drivers' standings

Manufacturers' standings

Footnotes

References

External links

Official website of the World Rally ChampionshipOfficial website of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
{{World Rally Championship results

World Rally Championship-2 The FIA WRC2 (previously also known as World Rally Championship 2 and WRC 2), is a support championship of the World Rally Championship. The calendar consists of the same rallies and stages as the main class and crews usually compete immediately ...