World Rally Championship-2
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The FIA World Rally Championship-2 or WRC-2 (formerly known as Super 2000 World Rally Championship or S-WRC), is a companion rally series to the World Rally Championship, and is driven on the same stages. WRC-2 is limited to production-based cars homologated under the Super 2000, N4, R5 rules. The series began in 2010 and split the Production World Rally Championship (P-WRC), which was previously open to both Super 2000 and Group N4 cars, into two separate competitions, both of which received their own FIA titles. There was also a World Rally Championship Cup for Teams within the S-WRC but this was discontiniued after 2010.
Models
The following Super 2000 rally cars are currently in production and eligible to compete in SWRC:
- Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000
- Ford Fiesta S2000 [1]
- Peugeot 207 S2000
- Škoda Fabia S2000[2]
- Toyota Auris S2000
- Volkswagen Polo S2000
- MG ZR S2000
- Opel Corsa S2000
- Proton Satria Neo S2000[3]
The following cars are going or are built under the R5 rules or RRC (Regional Race Car) rules:
- Citroën DS3 R5
- Citroën DS3 RRC
- Ford Fiesta RRC
- Ford Fiesta R5[N 1]
- Mini John Cooper Works S2000[N 2]
- Peugeot 208 T16 R5
The following cars are built under the R4 or N4 rules and will be eligible to enter WRC-2 and the Production Cup:
- Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
- Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
- Subaru Impreza STi
Calendar
From 2010 to 2012(as S-WRC), there are 10 qualifying rallies for the new series, and at the time of registration entrants must nominate seven rallies, including two outside Europe, in which to score points. The S-WRC is in addition to the WRC Cup for S2000 Teams, which was announced earlier in the year. The S-WRC Teams cup was scraped from 2011 onwards.
From 2013 there's no fixed calendar. The teams can participate in any round of the season with the requirement that teams must contest at least seven events, with their best six results from the first seven events they enter being counted towards their final points tally.
Champions
| Year | Champion | Car | 2nd | Car | 3rd | Car |
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| 2014 |  Nasser Al-Attiyah |
Ford Fiesta RRC |  Jari Ketomaa |
Ford Fiesta R5 |  Lorenzo Bertelli |
Ford Fiesta RRC § |
| 2013 |  Robert Kubica |
Citroen DS3 RRC | Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari |
Ford Fiesta RRC |  Yuriy Protasov |
Various ‡ |
| S-WRC | ||||||
| 2012 |  Craig Breen |
Ford Fiesta S2000 |  Per-Gunnar Andersson |
Proton Satria Neo S2000 |  Yazeed Al-Rajhi |
Ford Fiesta RRC |
| 2011 | Juho Hänninen |
Škoda Fabia S2000 |  Ott Tänak |
Ford Fiesta S2000 |  Martin Prokop |
Ford Fiesta S2000 |
| 2010 |  Xavier Pons |
Ford Fiesta S2000 | Patrik Sandell |
Škoda Fabia S2000 | Martin Prokop |
Ford Fiesta S2000 |
- ‡ Yuriy Protasov raced in 3 cars during the 2013 World Rally Championship-2 season: During the first races he raced with Subaru Impreza STi before switching to Ford Fiesta RRC and later to Ford Fiesta R5
- § Lorenzo Bertelli also drove Ford Fiesta R5 in Monte Carlo, Sweden and Great Britain.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Qatar | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 1 | Finland | 1 | 1 | - | |
| 3 | Ireland | 1 | - | - | - |
| 3 | Spain | 1 | - | - | - |
| 5 | Sweden | 2 | - | - | |
| 6 | Estonia | 1 | - | - | |
| 7 | Czech Republic | - | - | 2 | - |
| 8 | Italy | - | - | 1 | - |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | - | - | 1 | - |
| 8 | Ukraine | - | - | 1 | - |
| Total | - | - | - | - | |
Wins
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Gallery
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Jan Kopecký's Fiat Grande Punto S2000 at the 2008 Rally México
See also
- Junior World Rally Championship
- Production World Rally Championship
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