2007 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season

2007 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season
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The 2007 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season was the second season of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. The season consisted of nine rounds and began on March 9, with the Safari Rally. The season ended on November 11 with the China Rally. Enrique García Ojeda won the title ahead of Nicolas Vouilloz and Andrea Navarra.

Calendar

Round Dates Event title Surface
1 March 9–3 Safari Rally Gravel
2 May 11–13 Rally of Turkey Gravel
3 June 22–24 Belgium Ypres Westhoek Rally Asphalt
4 July 12–14 Rally Russia Gravel
5 August 2–4 Rali Vinho da Madeira Asphalt
6 August 24–26 Barum Rally Zlín Asphalt
7 September 27–29 Rallye San Remo Asphalt
8 October 25–27 Rallye International du Valais Asphalt
9 November 9–11 China Rally Gravel

Selected entries

Entrant Constructor Car Driver Co-driver Rounds
Abarth & C. Spa Abarth Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 Andrea Navarra Guido D'Amore 1–4
Dario D'Esposito 5–8
Umberto Scandola Luigi Pirollo 1, 3
Guido D'Amore 7–8
Anton Alén Timo Alanne 2, 4, 6
Giandomenico Basso Mitia Dotta 5, 7
Fiat Motorsport Turkey Volkan Isik Kaan Özşenler 2–3, 5–6
Bluthunder Racing Italy Corrado Fontana Renzo Casazza 3, 5–6
Cersanit Rally Team Michal Solowow Maciej Baran 3, 6
Duindisteel Pieter Tsjoen Eddy Chevaillier 3
Freddy Loix 5–8
Fiat Vodafone José Pedro Fontes Fernando Prata 5
Island Motorsport Renato Travaglia Lorenzo Granai 6–7
Zero4Piu Philippe Roux Eric Jordan 8
Hideaki Miyoshi Mitsubishi Ralliart Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX Hideaki Miyoshi Hakaru Ichino 1
Island Motorsport Renato Travaglia Lorenzo Granai 2–5
Dimitar Iliev Dimitar Iliev Yanaki Yanakiev 2–3, 5–6
Prosport Andrey Zhigunov Igor Ter-Oganesiants 4
Andrey Lagunov Sergey Grudina 4
Euro Oil Team Vaclav Pech Petr Uhel 6
Rallye Sport Promotion Karel Trojan Petr Rihak 6
Mediasport Czezh National Team Vaclav Arazim Julius Gal 6
Tescoma Rally Team Roman Kresta Petr Gross 6
Ralliart Italy Paolo Andreucci Anna Andreussi 7
Matteo Gamba Giancarla Guzzi 7
MRF Tyres Jussi Valimaki Jarkko Kalliolepo 9
Katsuhiko Taguchi Mark Stacey 9
Gaurav Gill Glenn MacNeall 9
Mitsubishi Lancer Wan Yu Team David Higgins Ieuan Thomas 9
Qingxian Hua Jian Zhang 9
Fan Fan Shu Fan 9
Peugeot Sport España Peugeot Peugeot 207 S2000 Nicolas Vouilloz Nicolas Klinger 2–8
Enrique García Ojeda Jordi Barrades Costa 2–8
Peugeot Team Belux Bernd Casier Frédéric Miclotte 3, 5–8
Racing Lions SRL Luca Rossetti Matteo Chiarcossi 3, 7
Gilles Panizzi Xavier Panseri 7
Peugeot Total Hungaria János Tóth Bea Bahor 3, 6
Robert Tagai 7
Peugeot Sport Sweden Jimmy Joge Mattias Andersson 4
Mathias Gardman 6
Peugeot Total Bruno Magalhães Paulo Grave 5, 7
BSA Brice Tirabassi Fabrice Gordon 7
Lugano Racing Team Christian Jaquillard Christiane Jaquillard 8
Citroën Sport Citroen Citroen C2 S1600 Simon Jean-Joseph Jacques Boyere 2–6
Zero4Piu Antonio Galli Paolo Brusadelli 8
JAS Motorsport Honda Honda Civic Type-R R3 Daniel Sola Oscar Sanchez 2–6
Carlos Del Barrio 7
Luca Betti Simone Cuneo 2
Giovanni Bernacchini 3–8
Belgian VW Club Volkswagen VW Polo S2000 Freddy Loix Robin Buysmans 3

Drivers standings

Pos Driver SAF
TUR
YPR
RUS
MAD
ZLI
SAN
VAL
CHN
 Pts 
1 Enrique García Ojeda 3 2 2 4 2 6 2 47
2 Nicolas Vouilloz 1 Ret 3 10 1 3 1 42
3 Andrea Navarra 3 2 3 4 Ret 7 10 Ret 32
4 Luca Rossetti 1 1 20
5 Giandomenico Basso 1 2 18
6 Umberto Scandola Ret 5 4 3 15
7 Anton Alén 4 1 Ret 15
8 Bernd Casier 4 6 5 14 Ret 13
9 David Higgins 2 10
10 Bruno Magalhães 3 Ret 8
11 Lang Xu 3 8
12 Hideaki Miyoshi 4 8
13 Václav Pech 3 6
14 Martin Rowe 6 6
15 Asad Answar 7 6
16 Freddy Loix Ret Ret Ret 11 4 5
17 Roman Kresta 4 5
18 José Pedro Fontes 5 5
19 Brian Green 7 5
20 Sammy Aslam 8 5
21 Renato Travaglia 5 13 Ret Ret 8 Ret 5
22 Marco Cavigioli 16 21 5 15 Ret 20 4
23 Paolo Andreucci 5 4
24 Luca Betti 21 Ret Ret Ret 22 30 9 4
25 Qingxian Hua 9 4
26 Robert Gow 19 4
27 Simon Jean-Joseph 8 10 11 8 10 4
28 Volkan Isik 6 Ret 14 13 3
29 Václav Arazim 6 3
30 Corrado Fontana Ret 7 Ret 3
31 Patrick Snijers 7 3
32 Andrey Zhigunov 7 3
33 Philippe Roux 10 3
34 Shinichiro Karakama 10 3
35 Navraj Hans 25 3
36 Tomasz Czopik 7 11 Ret 2
37 Dimitar Iliev Ret 8 Ret Ret 2
38 Boris Fedotov 8 2
39 Gilles Panizzi 8 2
40 Jean-Philippe Radoux 11 2
41 Chunlei Shi 11 2
42 Gergely Szabo 9 17 1
43 Alexandre Camacho 9 1
44 Devis Cremona 12 1
45 Fenghze Xie 12 1
Pos Driver SAF
TUR
YPR
RUS
MAD
ZLI
SAN
VAL
CHN
 Pts 
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Purple Did not finish (Ret)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Injured or ill (Inj)
Excluded (EX)
Suspended (SUS)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Withdrew entry before the event (WD)