Production World Rally Championship

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Nasser Al-Attiyah driving a Subaru Impreza WRX STI at the 2006 Acropolis Rally.

The FIA Production World Rally Championship, or PWRC, was a companion rally series to the World Rally Championship, contested by Group N rally cars.

The series started in 1987 as FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers and obtained the world championship status in 2002. With the introduction of Group R, the PWRC was cancelled at the end of 2012 and was replaced by the World Rally Championship-3 open to 2WD based cars homologated in R1, R2 and R3 classes. Remaining 4WD Group N cars were moved to the new World Rally Championship-2 alongside S2000, RRC, R4 and R5 cars.

History[]

After the end of the Group B era, the 1987 World Rally Championship was contested by Group A cars. However the FIA established a trophy for Group N cars named FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers contested on the same rounds as the main Championship. Since 2002 the previous FIA Cup was renamed Production World Rally Championship and became a support series to the WRC in selected rounds.^[1] The eligible cars were still Group N modified road cars such as the Subaru Impreza WRX and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. Between 2007 and 2009 the PWRC allowed Super 2000 cars alongside regular Group N entries. In 2010 the S2000 cars were moved to a dedicated championship named SWRC (Super 2000 World Championship).

Results[]

Drivers' Championship[]

Season	Champion[2]		2nd place		3rd place
	Driver	Car	Driver	Car	Driver	Car
PWRC
2012	Benito Guerra	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	Marcos Ligato	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Valeriy Gorban	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
2011	Hayden Paddon	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Patrik Flodin	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Michał Kościuszko	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
2010	Armindo Araújo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	Patrik Flodin	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Hayden Paddon	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
2009	Armindo Araújo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	Martin Prokop	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2008	Andreas Aigner	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	Juho Hänninen	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	Jari Ketomaa	Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2007	Toshi Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Gabriel Pozzo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	Mark Higgins	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
2006	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Fumio Nutahara	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	Mirco Baldacci	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
2005	Toshi Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Marcos Ligato	Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2004	Niall McShea	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Toshi Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Jani Paasonen	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII
2003	Martin Rowe	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Toshi Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Stig Blomqvist	Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2002	Karamjit Singh	Proton Pert	Kristian Sohlberg	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII		Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII
FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers
2001	Gabriel Pozzo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI	Manfred Stohl	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI
2000	Manfred Stohl	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI	Gabriel Pozzo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI
1999	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V / Evo VI	Hamed Al-Wahaibi	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V / Evo VI	Toshi Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX
1998	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV / Evo V	Manfred Stohl	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo V		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV / Proton Wira 4WD
1997	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV	Manfred Stohl	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV
1996	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Subaru Impreza WRX		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III
1995	Rui Madeira	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II	Jorge Recalde	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II
1994	Jesús Puras	Ford Escort RS Cosworth		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo I / Evo II	Jorge Recalde	Mitsubishi Lancer RS / Evo II
1993		Mazda 323 GTR		Ford Escort RS Cosworth	Jarmo Kytölehto	Mitsubishi Galant VR-4
1992	Grégoire De Mévius	Nissan Sunny GTI-R		Nissan Sunny GTI-R		Lancia Delta HF Integrale
1991	Grégoire De Mévius	Mazda 323 GTX		Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4		Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4
						Lancia Delta Integrale 16V / Volkswagen Golf GTi 16V
1990	Alain Oreille	Renault 5 GT Turbo	Gustavo Trelles	Lancia Delta Integrale 16V	Tommi Mäkinen	Mitsubishi Galant VR-4
1989	Alain Oreille	Renault 5 GT Turbo	Grégoire De Mévius	Mazda 323 4WD	Gustavo Trelles	Lancia Delta Integrale 16V
1988		Mazda 323 4WD	Jorge Recalde	Lancia Delta Integrale		Lancia Delta Integrale
1987	Alex Fiorio	Lancia Delta HF Integrale		Lancia Delta HF 4WD / Audi Coupé Quattro		Lancia Delta HF 4WD
						Audi Coupé Quattro
						Renault 5 GT Turbo
						Toyota Corolla GT
						Subaru RX Turbo
					Franco Cunico	Lancia Delta HF 4WD
						Ford Sierra RS Cosworth

See also[]

• Junior World Rally Championship
• World Rally Championship-2
• World Rally Championship-3

References[]

External links[]

• PWRC at WRC.com
• PWRC at ewrc-results.com