2008 Intercontinental Rally Challenge

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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		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
				Guido D'Amore	5, 9
				Dario D'Esposito	8
			Andrea Navarra	Guido D'Amore	8
				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				António Costa	2, 5
H.F. Grifone SRL			Didier Auriol	Denis Giraudet	2, 4, 8
				Carlo Cassina	3
Fiat Auto Eapaña				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
				Wim Soenens	3
			Pavel Valoušek	Zdeněk Hrůza	6
				Diego Vallejo	7
				Michele Brega	8
Peugeot Total Hungaria				Robert Tagai	2–3, 6, 9
Cersanit Rally Team			Michał Sołowow	Maciek Baran	3, 5–6, 8
Kronos Racing			Juho Hänninen	Mikko Markkula	4
Team de Ralis Olca				Pedro Calado	5
Tescoma Rally Team			Roman Kresta	Petr Gross	6
Peugeot Sport España			Enrique García Ojeda	Jordi Barrabés	6–7
				José Carlos Déniz	7
				Pablo Marcos	7
Peugeot Sport Polska			Bryan Bouffier	Xavier Panseri	6, 9
Lugano Racing Team				Pietro Ravasi	9
				Sandra Arlettaz	9
Mauro Rally Tuning	Mitsubishi Ralliart	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX		Claudio Condotta	1
Red Bull Rally Team			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 Motorsport				Martine Kolman	3
Driving Art				Igor Ter-Oganesiants	4
EuroOil Čepro Czech National Team			Václav Pech	Petr Uhel	6
B9 Racing				Alberto Iglesias	7
Guizhou Bailing Team			Liu Chao Dong	Hongyu Pan	10
				Shaojun Huang	10
			Juha Salo	Mika Stenberg	10
Soueast-Motor Wan Yu Rally Team				Mikko Lukka	10
				Junwei Fang	10
				Zhengliang Ke	10
				Weipeng Zhang	10
Wuyi Youth Rally Team				Shuang Liu	10
				Xin Guo	10
Autostal Duindistel	Volkswagen	Volkswagen Polo S2000		Frédéric Miclotte	3
Belgian VW Club					6, 8
				Cédric Pirotte	3
René Georges Rally Sport				Laurent Fourcade	9
Bill Gwynne Motorsport	MG	S2000 Sport	Mark Higgins	Rory Kennedy	3
Stuart Jones Rallying				George Gwynn	9
Procar	Honda	Honda Civic Type-R R3		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 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 1 10 11 Liu Chao Dong 3 8 12 3 6 13 4 6 14 Enrique García Ojeda 13 4 5 15 4 5 16 Pavel Valoušek 4 5 17 6 5 18 5 4 19 5 4 20 Ret Ret 6 8 4 21 Bruno Magalhães 6 8 Ret 4 22 7 4 23 Daniel Sola 6 Ret Ret Ret Ret 3 24 6 3 25 8 3 26 Volkan Isik 7 Ret 11 16 2 27 Brice Tirabassi Ret Ret Ret 7 Ret 2 28 7 Ret Ret 2 29 Manfred Stohl 7 2 30 7 2 31 7 2 32 7 2 33 7 2 34 9 2 35 Andreas Aigner 8 1 36 8 1 37 8 1 38 9 1 39 9 1 40 11 1 Pos Driver IST POR YPR MAD ZLI AST SAN VAL CHN  Pts

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