Production World Rally Championship

The FIA Production car World Rally Championship, or PWRC, was a companion rally series to the World Rally Championship, contested mainly by Group N rally cars.

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Nasser Al-Attiyah driving a Subaru Impreza WRX STI at the 2006 Acropolis Rally.

History

The series started in 1987 as FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers and obtained the world championship status in 2002.[1][2] The eligible cars were still Group N modified road cars such as the Subaru Impreza WRX and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. Between 2007 and 2009 the PWRC allowed Super 2000 cars alongside regular Group N entries. In 2010 the S2000 cars were moved to a dedicated championship named SWRC (Super 2000 World Championship). With the introduction of Group R cars since 2008, the PWRC was cancelled at the end of 2012 and was replaced by the World Rally Championship-3 open exclusively to 2WD based cars homologated in R1, R2 and R3 classes. The 4WD Group N cars were moved to the new World Rally Championship-2 alongside S2000, RRC, R4 and R5 cars.[3][4]

Results

Drivers' Championship
Season Champion 2nd place 3rd place
Driver Car Driver Car Driver Car
PWRC
2012 Mexico Benito Guerra Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X Argentina Marcos Ligato Subaru Impreza WRX STI Ukraine Valeriy Gorban Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
2011 New Zealand Hayden Paddon Subaru Impreza WRX STI Sweden Patrik Flodin Subaru Impreza WRX STI Poland Michał Kościuszko Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
2010 Portugal Armindo Araújo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X Sweden Patrik Flodin Subaru Impreza WRX STI New Zealand Hayden Paddon Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
2009 Portugal Armindo Araújo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Czech Republic Martin Prokop Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Qatar Nasser Al-Attiyah Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2008 Austria Andreas Aigner Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Finland Juho Hänninen Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Finland Jari Ketomaa Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2007 Japan Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX STI Argentina Gabriel Pozzo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX United Kingdom Mark Higgins Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
2006 Qatar Nasser Al-Attiyah Subaru Impreza WRX STI Japan Fumio Nutahara Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX San Marino Mirco Baldacci Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
2005 Japan Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX STI Qatar Nasser Al-Attiyah Subaru Impreza WRX STI Argentina Marcos Ligato Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2004 United Kingdom Niall McShea Subaru Impreza WRX STI Japan Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX STI Finland Jani Paasonen Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII
2003 United Kingdom Martin Rowe Subaru Impreza WRX STI Japan Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX STI Sweden Stig Blomqvist Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2002 Malaysia Karamjit Singh Proton Pert Finland Kristian Sohlberg Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII Peru Ramón Ferreyros Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII
FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers
2001 Argentina Gabriel Pozzo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Uruguay Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Austria Manfred Stohl Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI
2000 Austria Manfred Stohl Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Uruguay Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Argentina Gabriel Pozzo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI
1999 Uruguay Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V / Evo VI Oman Hamed Al-Wahaibi Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V / Evo VI Japan Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX
1998 Uruguay Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV / Evo V Austria Manfred Stohl Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo V Spain Luís Climent Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV /
Proton Wira 4WD
1997 Uruguay Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III Spain Luís Climent Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV Austria Manfred Stohl Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV
1996 Uruguay Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III /
Subaru Impreza WRX		 Germany Uwe Nittel Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III Belgium Pascal Smets Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III
1995 Portugal Rui Madeira Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II Argentina Jorge Recalde Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II Germany Isolde Holderied Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II
1994 Spain Jesús Puras Ford Escort RS Cosworth Germany Isolde Holderied Mitsubishi Lancer Evo I / Evo II Argentina Jorge Recalde Mitsubishi Lancer RS / Evo II
1993 Italy Alex Fassina Mazda 323 GTR Portugal António Coutinho Ford Escort RS Cosworth Finland Jarmo Kytölehto Mitsubishi Galant VR-4
1992 Belgium Grégoire De Mévius Nissan Sunny GTI-R Japan Hiroshi Nishiyama Nissan Sunny GTI-R Argentina Carlos Menem, Jr. Lancia Delta HF Integrale
1991 Belgium Grégoire De Mévius Mazda 323 GTX Spain Fernando Capdevila Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4 Argentina Carlos Menem, Jr. Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4
Italy Piergiorgio Bedini Lancia Delta Integrale 16V /
Volkswagen Golf GTi 16V
1990 France Alain Oreille Renault 5 GT Turbo Uruguay Gustavo Trelles Lancia Delta Integrale 16V Finland Tommi Mäkinen Mitsubishi Galant VR-4
1989 France Alain Oreille Renault 5 GT Turbo Belgium Grégoire De Mévius Mazda 323 4WD Uruguay Gustavo Trelles Lancia Delta Integrale 16V
1988 Belgium Pascal Gaban Mazda 323 4WD Argentina Jorge Recalde Lancia Delta Integrale Italy Giovanni Del Zoppo Lancia Delta Integrale
1987 Italy Alex Fiorio Lancia Delta HF Integrale Sweden Ove Olofsson Lancia Delta HF 4WD /
Audi Coupé Quattro		 France Bertrand Balas Lancia Delta HF 4WD
Sweden Sören Nilsson Audi Coupé Quattro
France Claude Balesi Renault 5 GT Turbo
Greece Evangelos Gallo Toyota Corolla GT
Finland Fredrik Donner Subaru RX Turbo
Italy Franco Cunico Lancia Delta HF 4WD
United Kingdom George Donaldson Ford Sierra RS Cosworth
Source:[5][6]

See also

References
  1. "Cup for Drivers of Production Cars". Archived from the original on 5 June 1997.
  2. "2002 Sporting Regulations". Archived from the original on 5 August 2002.
  3. "2013 FIA World Rally Championship Sporting Regulations".
  4. "Production Car World Rally Championship". Jonkka's World Rally Archive. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  5. "FIA Group N Cup/PWRC Championship Winners". WRC. Archived from the original on 27 August 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  6. "Top stats - eWRC-results.com".
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