2009 International Rally of Nations

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The International Rally of Nations is an international Rally event held in México for the first time in 2009.

According to the organization, "the idea of this event is to bring the emotional side of the Olympic Games or the world cup to the automobile world with the possibility of several teams per country." The idea for the event came after the Rally Mexico was not included in the 2009 World Rally Championship due to the rotation system.

The event was won by Spain's Xavier Pons and Daniel Solà, with the two drivers amassing a total of 1067.5 points.

Format[]

This Rally has a special format since, unlike other rallies, time will not be added stage by stage. Each Special Stage will give points to the top 16 drivers. A team representing a nation will consist of two cars and the points scored by each driver will be added together to determine the Nations Champion.

According to the official rules:

"Points will be awarded to each member of a Team per each Special Stage or Super Special Stage completed. The best-classified crew of each Team will be awarded points as Car 1, the second crew as Car 2. Each crew will be awarded points according to its overall position in the stage classification from the eligible crews (Competing for the Rally of Nations) in each Super Special Stage or Special Stage according to the following scale:"

The Team scoring the most points at the end of the Rally will be declared the Winner of the Rally of Nations.

2009 Entries[]

There are some very important drivers, including former and/or World Rally Championship, Production World Rally Championship and NACAM Rally Championship champions.

Team	Driver	Codriver	Group	Car
Austria	Manfred Stohl	Ilka Minor	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Austria	Andreas Aigner		N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Ecuador			A6	Peugeot 206 XS
Ecuador			A6	Peugeot 206 XS
Corona Team Finland	Harri Rovanperä		N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Corona Team Finland	Toni Gardemeister		N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
France	Didier Auriol	Denis Giraudet	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
France	Brice Tirabassi		N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Great Britain			N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Great Britain	Niall McShea		N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Germany	Hermann Gassner Jr.		N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Germany			N4	Subaru Impreza WRX
Pirelli Team Italia			N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Pirelli Team Italia			N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
México 1			N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
México 1	José Cortés	Alex Prieto	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
México 2	Ricardo Triviño		N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
México 2			N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
México 3			A6	Peugeot 206 XS
México 3			A6	Peugeot 206 XS
México 3		Jaime Zapata	N2	Renault Clio
Perú			N3	Renault Clio
Perú			A6	Peugeot 206 XS
Spain	Dani Sola		N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Spain	Xavier Pons		N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Sweden	Patrik Sandell	Emil Axelsson	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Sweden	Per-Gunnar Andersson		N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Uruguay			A6	Peugeot 206 XS
Uruguay			A6	Peugeot 206 XS
USA 1			N4	Subaru Impreza WRX
United States 1	Kenny Bartram		N4	Subaru Impreza WRX
United States 2			N4	Subaru Impreza STI
United States 2		Martin Brady	N4	Subaru Impreza WRX

External links[]

• Official Website