2008 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season

The 2008 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season was the third season of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. The season consisted of ten rounds and began on April 4, with the Istanbul Rally. The season ended on December 12 with the China Rally. Nicolas Vouilloz won the title ahead of Freddy Loix and Giandomenico Basso.

Calendar

Round	Dates	Event title	Surface
1	April 4–6	Istanbul Rally	Gravel
2	May 8–10	Rally de Portugal	Gravel
3	June 27–28	Belgium Ypres Westhoek Rally	Asphalt
4	July 11–12	Rally Russia	Gravel
5	August 1–2	Rali Vinho da Madeira	Asphalt
6	August 22–24	Barum Czech Rally Zlín	Asphalt
7	September 11–13	Rallye Principe de Asturias	Asphalt
8	September 26–28	Rallye San Remo	Asphalt
9	October 24–26	Rallye International du Valais	Asphalt
10	December 5–12	China Rally	Gravel

Selected entries

Entrant	Constructor	Car	Driver	Co-driver	Rounds
Abarth & C. Spa	Abarth	Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000	Giandomenico Basso	Mitia Dotta	1–9
			Anton Alén	Timo Alanne	1–4, 6–9
			Umberto Scandola	Guido D'Amore	5, 9
				Dario D'Esposito	8
			Andrea Navarra	Guido D'Amore	8
			Alessio Pisi	Luca Costantini	8
			Renato Travaglia	Lorenzo Granai	8
Island Motorsport					1, 3, 5–6
Fiat Motorsport Turkey			Volkan Isik	Kaan Özşenler	1, 3, 5–6
Procar			Daniel Solà	Oscar Sanchez	1–4, 7
			François Duval	Patrick Pivato	2
Cersanit Rally Team			Michał Sołowow	Maciek Baran	1
Fiat Vodafone			José Pedro Fontes	António Costa	2, 5
H.F. Grifone SRL			Didier Auriol	Denis Giraudet	2, 4, 8
			Corrado Fontana	Carlo Cassina	3
Fiat Auto Eapaña			Miguel Fuster	José Vincente Medina	7
Scuderia Solferino Rally			Olivier Burri	Benjamin Veillas	9
Champion Racing	Peugeot	Peugeot 207 S2000	Jan Kopecký	Petr Starý	1–4
Peugeot Team Belux			Freddy Loix	Robin Buysmans	1–9
			Nicolas Vouilloz	Nicolas Klinger	1–9
BSA Team			Brice Tirabassi	Fabrice Gordon	1–5
Racing Lions SRL			Luca Rossetti	Matteo Chiarcossi	1–3, 5–6, 8–9
Stohl Racing			Manfred Stohl	Ilka Minor	2
Peugeot Total			Bruno Magalhães	Mário Castro	2
				Carlos Magalhães	5, 7
BF Goodrich Drivers Team			Miguel Campos	Paulo Babo	2
			Patrick Snijers	Wim Soenens	3
			Pavel Valoušek	Zdeněk Hrůza	6
			Sergio Vallejo	Diego Vallejo	7
			Andrea Torlasco	Michele Brega	8
Peugeot Total Hungaria			János Tóth	Robert Tagai	2–3, 6, 9
Cersanit Rally Team			Michał Sołowow	Maciek Baran	3, 5–6, 8
RRE Sports			Juho Hänninen	Mikko Markkula	4
Team de Ralis Olca			Alexandre Camacho	Pedro Calado	5
Tescoma Rally Team			Roman Kresta	Petr Gross	6
Peugeot Sport España			Enrique García Ojeda	Jordi Barrabes Costa	6–7
			Luís Monzón	José Carlos Déniz	7
			Oscar Garre	Pablo Marcos Secades	7
Peugeot Sport Polska			Bryan Bouffier	Xavier Panseri	6, 9
Lugano Racing Team			Gregoire Hotz	Pietro Ravasi	9
Red Bull Rally Team	Mitsubishi Ralliart	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	Andreas Aigner	Klaus Wicha	2
			Bernardo Sousa	Carlos Magalhães	2
Ralliart Italy			Armindo Araújo	Miguel Ramalho	2
			Paolo Andreucci	Anna Andreussi	2, 8
RRE Sports			Juho Hänninen	Mikko Markkula	2
Heuvel Motor Sport			Jasper van den Heuvel	Martine Kolman	3
Driving Art			Andrey Zhigunov	Igor Ter-Oganesiants	4
EuroOil Čepro Czech National Team			Václav Pech	Petr Uhel	6
B9 Racing			Alberto Hevia	Alberto Iglesias	7
Guizhou Bailing Team			Liu Chao Dong	Hongyu Pan	10
			Hongjie Wei	Shaojun Huang	10
			Juha Salo	Mika Stenberg	10
Soueast-Motor Wan Yu Rally Team			Jarkko Miettinen	Mikko Lukka	10
			Fan Fan	Junwei Fang	10
			Jixiang Wu	Zhengliang Ke	10
			Zhonglin Yang	Weipeng Zhang	10
Wuyi Youth Rally Team			Jun Xu	Shuang Liu	10
			Zhixing Yang	Xin Guo	10
Autostal Duindistel	Volkswagen	Volkswagen Polo S2000	Bernd Casier	Frédéric Miclotte	3
Belgian VW Club					6, 8
			Raphaël Auqueir	Cédric Pirotte	3
René Georges Rally Sport			Philippe Greiffenberg	Laurent Fourcade	9
Bill Gwynne Motorsport	MG	S2000 Sport	Mark Higgins	Rory Kennedy	3
Stuart Jones Rallying			Stuart Jones	George Gwynn	9
Procar	Honda	Honda Civic Type-R R3	Alessandro Bettega	Simone Scattolin	3, 6–9
JAS Motorsport			Guy Wilks	David Moynihan	4

Drivers standings

• The best seven scores from each driver count towards the championship.

Pos Driver IST POR YPR RUS MAD ZLI AST SAN VAL CHN  Pts  1 Nicolas Vouilloz 2 3 2 5 1 2 2 2 2 58 2 Freddy Loix 8 Ret 1 4 6 1 3 5 1 48 3 Giandomenico Basso Ret 4 6 3 2 Ret 1 1 5 46 4 Luca Rossetti 1 1 3 5 7 3 3 44 5 Anton Alén 3 Ret 11 2 Ret 6 8 6 21 6 Renato Travaglia 4 Ret 4 5 4 19 7 Jan Kopecký 5 2 Ret 6 15 8 Juho Hänninen 5 1 14 9 Bryan Bouffier 3 4 11 10 Jarkko Miettinen 1 10 11 Liu Chao Dong 3 8 12 Alexandre Camacho 3 6 13 Jun Xu 4 6 14 Enrique García Ojeda 13 4 5 15 Bernd Casier 4 5 16 Pavel Valoušek 4 5 17 Fan Fan 6 5 18 Patrick Snijers 5 4 19 Miguel Fuster 5 4 20 János Tóth Ret Ret 6 8 4 21 Bruno Magalhães 6 8 Ret 4 22 Hanping Ma 7 4 23 Daniel Sola 6 Ret Ret Ret Ret 3 24 Alessandro Perico 6 3 25 Zhuoyong Tan 8 3 26 Volkan Isik 7 Ret 11 16 2 27 Brice Tirabassi Ret Ret Ret 7 Ret 2 28 Umberto Scandola 7 Ret Ret 2 29 Manfred Stohl 7 2 30 Jasper van den Heuvel 7 2 31 Sergio Vallejo 7 2 32 Luca Cantamessa 7 2 33 Gregoire Hotz 7 2 34 Jixiang Wu 9 2 35 Andreas Aigner 8 1 36 Josef Peták 8 1 37 Alberto Hevia 8 1 38 Paul Lietaer 9 1 39 Oleg Antropov 9 1 40 Jianrong Jan 11 1 Pos Driver IST POR YPR RUS MAD ZLI AST SAN VAL CHN  Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Black Excluded (EX) Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Blank Withdrew entry before the event (WD)