The 2019 FIA WRC2 Pro Championship was the first and only season of
WRC2 Pro, a
rallying
Rallying is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests (sometimes called "rally racing" in United States), navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed ...
championship organised and governed by the
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
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as the second-highest tier of international rallying. The category was open to cars entered by manufacturers and complying with
Group R5 regulations,
while
WRC2 was open to
privately entered cars.
Calendar
Entries
Crew changes
Škoda Motorsport
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scaled back their involvement in the championship to a single two-car team. The team retained defending drivers' champion
Jan Kopecký and
Kalle Rovanperä, while
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champions
Pontus Tidemand and
Jonas Andersson left the team.
Tidemand later joined WRC team
M-Sport Ford on a part-time basis,
while Andersson remained in WRC2, partnering
Ole Christian Veiby.
will also enter two cars, one for Polish driver
Łukasz Pieniążek 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 th ...
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, 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 WRC2 entrant.
After driving for Citroën's WRC team in 2018,
Mads Østberg
Mads Østberg (born 11 October 1987) is a Norway, Norwegian Rallying, rally driver. His co-driver is Torstein Eriksen.
Career
Østberg competed in his first rally in 2004. His first World Rally Championship event was the 2006 Swedish Rally, in ...
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
Kalle Rovanperä at
Rally Sweden. Škoda would repeat this practice with 18-year-old Bolivian driver
Marco Bulacia Wilkinson, who is set to participate in the pro-class in the South American double-header in
Argentina
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and
Chile
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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
WRC2 Pro