The 2022 Rally Catalunya (also known as the RallyRACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada 2022) was a

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event for

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that was held over four days between 20 and 23 October 2022. It marked the fifty-seventh running of the

Rally de Catalunya The Rally Catalunya (formerly: Rallye Catalunya) is a rally competition held in the Catalonia region of Spain, on the World Rally Championship schedule. Now held on the wide, smooth and sweeping asphalt roads around the town of Salou, Costa Dau ...

. The event was the twelfth round of the

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and

World Rally Championship-3 The FIA WRC3 is a support championship of the World Rally Championship. The calendar consists of the same rallies and stages as the parent series and crews usually compete immediately after WRC2 entrants. Entry into WRC3 is limited to cars that ...

. The 2022 event was based in

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in the province of

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and was contested over nineteen special stages covering a total competitive distance of .

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and

Martijn Wydaeghe Martijn Wydaeghe (; born 1 September 1992) is a Belgian rallying co-driver. He is partnered with Thierry Neuville for Hyundai Motorsport in the World Rally Championship category. Rally career Wydaeghe made his WRC debut at the 2013 Rallye de F ...

were the defending rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the defending manufacturers' winners.

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and Maxime Vilmot were the defending winners in the WRC-2 category.

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and

Reeta Hämäläinen Reeta Hämäläinen (born 14 May 1988) is a Finnish people, Finnish rallying co-driver. She is partnered with Emil Lindholm for Hyundai Motorsport in the World Rally Championship-2, WRC-2 category. Career Hämäläinen began rallying competition ...

were the defending winners in the WRC-3 category.

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and

Benjamin Veillas Benjamin Veillas (born 26 February 1983) is a French rally co-driver competing with Pierre-Louis Loubet for M-Sport WRT in the FIA World Rally Championship. Biography Veillas started his co-driver career in 1997, and made his World Rally Champ ...

won their first rally of the season. Their team,

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, won the 2022 manufacturers' title.

Teemu Suninen Teemu Suninen (; born 1 February 1994) is a Finnish rally driver. He currently competes part-time for the Hyundai team in the World Rally Championship (WRC). Rally career Suninen won the WRC-3 class in the 2014 Rally Finland and 2015 Rally ...

and

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won the World Rally Championship-2 category.

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and

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won the World Rally Championship-3 category, and with the victory, Joona became the 2022 WRC-3 champion.

Background

Entry list

The following crews entered into the rally. The event was opened to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, its support categories, the World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3, and

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entries that were not registered to score points in any championship, as well as the European Rally championship and its support categories. Twelve entered under

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regulations, as were thirty-three

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crews in the World Rally Championship-2 and four Rally3 crews in the World Rally Championship-3.

Itinerary

All dates and times are

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Report

WRC Rally1

Classification

Special stages

Championship standings

*Bold text indicates 2022 World Champions.

WRC-2 Rally2

Classification

Special stages

Championship standings

*Bold text indicates 2022 World Champions.

WRC-3 Rally3

Classification

Special stages

Championship standings

*Bold text indicates 2022 World Champions.

Notes

References

External links

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2022 Rally Catalunya
at eWRC-results.com
2022 Rally Catalunya
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Sport in the Province of Tarragona