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The season 2025 of WRC

The championship is set to begin in January 2025 with the Monte Carlo Rally and conclude in November 2025 with the calendar newcomer Rally Saudi Arabia.

The 2025 season is scheduled to be contested over fourteen rounds crossing Europe, Africa, South America and Asia.

WRC 2025 calendar changes

Enjoy all information about the 2025 World Rally Championship season: new cars, new pilots, new calendar...

Season 2025 WRC calendar

The 2025 WRC season events list:

1 [MC] Rallye de Monte-Carlo
23 - 26 Jan
2 [SE] Rally Sweden
13 - 16 Feb
3 [KE] Safari Rally
20 - 23 Mar
4 [ES] Rally Islas Canarias
24 - 27 Apr
5 [PT] Rallye de Portugal
15 - 18 May
6 [IT] Rally Sardinia
05 - 08 Jun
7 [GR] Acropolis Rally of Greece
26 - 29 Jun
8 [EE] Rally Estonia
17 - 20 Jul
9 [FI] Rally Finland
31 Jul - 03 Aug
10 [PY] Rally Trans Itapúa
28 - 31 Aug
11 [CL] Rally Chile
11 - 14 Sep
12 [EU] Central Europe Rally
16 - 19 Oct
13 [JP] Rally Japan
06 - 09 Nov
14 [SA] Rally Saudi Arabia
27 - 30 Nov

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Next World Rally Championship race

The next rally in the WRC is Rally Sweden, 13 - 16 Feb.

WRC 2025 teams and pilots



Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT

#1
[BE] Thierry Neuville
#8
[EE] Ott Tänak
#16
[FR] Adrien Fourmaux


M-Sport Ford WRT

#16
[LU] Grégoire Munster
#55
[IE] Josh McErlean


Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT

#33
[GB] Elfyn Evans
#69
[FI] Kalle Rovanperä
#5
[FI] Sami Pajari
#18
[JP] Takamoto Katsuta
#17
[FR] Sébastien Ogier

History of the World Rally Championship

The first edition of the World Rally Championship was held in 1973, organized by the International Automobile Federation (FIA) from various championships that were disputed internationally.
Mainly from the European Rally Championship, the oldest supranational rally championship that was organized in the world, a test that the FIA has been organizing since 1953. And the International Championship of Brands, which was held from 1970 to 1972.
Starting in 1973, the FIA established a worldwide competition, increasing the calendar to thirteen tests, ten of them in Europe, two in Africa and one in America. That included the historic Monte Carlo Rally, RAC Rally, Acropolis Rally, Safari Rally or the Thousand Lakes Rally.

From 1973 to 1976 only the constructors' championship was disputed, but between 1977 and 1978, the FIA Cup for rally drivers was held, which was the predecessor of the World Championship for Drivers which included the world championship events (in Monte Carlo, Sweden, Portugal, Safari, Acropolis, Poland, Finland, Canada, San Remo, Corsica, Great Britain...) and several that were only scoring for the FIA Cup (such as the Rally of Scotland, San Martino di Castrozza...).
The first official world rally champion was Björn Waldegård in 1979.

The championships

There are two championships in the World Rally Championship: the FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers and the FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, which are different but based on the same points system, and in which all events count towards both championships.

Birthdays


Marcus Grönholm
57 years old
on February 5

Teemu Suninen
31 years old
on February 1

Massimo Biasion
67 years old
on January 7

Statistics of the World Rally Championship

Rallypedia collects all the data of the World Rally Championship (WRC) offering it in a structured and navigable way: winners of the drivers' and manufacturers' championship, all rallies, the manufacturers, the cars, the drivers...
And historical rankings of the competition or statistics of fatal accidents.

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