2015 Rally México Explained

2015 Rally México
Native Name:	29º Rally Guanajuato México
Round:	3 of 13
Championship:	2015 World Rally Championship
Previous Round:	2015 Rally Sweden
Next Round:	2015 Rally Argentina
Rallybase:	León
Startdate:	5
Enddate:	8 March 2015
Stages:	21
Stagekm:	394.21
Surface:	Gravel
Driver1:	Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia
Team1:	Volkswagen Motorsport
Teamsstart:	30
Teamsfinish:	23

The 2015 Rally Guanajuato México was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 5 and 8 March 2015. It marked the twenty-ninth running of the Rally Mexico, and was the third round of the 2015 World Rally Championship and WRC-2 seasons.

For the third year in succession,^[1] Volkswagen Motorsport driver Sébastien Ogier won the rally,^[2] taking his fifth consecutive WRC win in the process. Ogier finished almost a minute-and-a-half clear of his closest competitor, Citroën World Rally Team's Mads Østberg. The podium was completed by Ogier's team-mate Andreas Mikkelsen, who finished 6.3 seconds in arrears of Østberg.^[1] Nasser Al-Attiyah was the winner of the WRC-2 class, finishing almost eight minutes clear of anyone else, while also finishing in seventh place overall.^{[1] [3]} Nicolás Fuchs (ninth overall) and Jari Ketomaa (tenth overall) completed the podium.^{[1] [3]}

During the third stage of the rally, Los Mexicanos, Ott Tänak crashed his car into a lake, but he and co-driver Raigo Mõlder were able to extract themselves from the car prior to it submerging. The car was recovered from the lake, in anticipation for the car to be repaired by the M-Sport World Rally Team. The team attempted to repair the car, dubbed the TiTänak^{[4] [5] [6]}  – a portmanteau of the RMS Titanic passenger liner, that sank in 1912, and Tänak's name – for the second day, but he was unable to start. He returned for Sunday's stages, finishing 22nd overall and scoring a manufacturers' championship point.^[7]

Entry list

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Icon Class WRC WRC entries eligible to score manufacturer points WRC Major entry ineligible to score manufacturer points WRC-2 Registered to take part in WRC-2 championship

Results

Event standings

		Driver	Co-driver	Team	Car	Class	Time		Points
Overall classification
1	1	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	WRC	4:19:13.4	0.00
2	4	Mads Østberg	Jonas Andersson	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT	Citroën DS3 WRC	WRC	4:20:32.2	+1:18.8	18
3	9	Andreas Mikkelsen	Ola Fløene	Volkswagen Motorsport II	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	WRC	4:20:38.5	+1:25.1
4	5	Elfyn Evans	Daniel Barritt	M-Sport World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	WRC	4:22:53.6	+3:40.2	12
5	8	Dani Sordo	Marc Martí	Hyundai Motorsport	Hyundai i20 WRC	WRC	4:24:15.2	+5:01.8	10
6	21	Martin Prokop	Jan Tománek	Jipocar Czech National Team	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	WRC	4:25:49.5	+6:36.1	8
7	39	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Matthieu Baumel	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Ford Fiesta RRC	WRC-2	4:34:06.1	+14:52.7	6
8	7	Thierry Neuville	Nicolas Gilsoul	Hyundai Motorsport	Hyundai i20 WRC	WRC	4:41:56.7	+22:43.3
9	41	Nicolás Fuchs	Fernando Mussano	Nicolás Fuchs	Ford Fiesta R5	WRC-2	4:42:02.4	+22:49.0	2
10	40	Jari Ketomaa	Kaj Lindström	Drive DMACK	Ford Fiesta R5	WRC-2	4:42:23.6	+23:10.2	1
WRC-2 standings
1 (7.)	39	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Matthieu Baumel	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Ford Fiesta RRC	WRC-2	4:34:06.1	0.0	25
2 (9.)	41	Nicolás Fuchs	Fernando Mussano	Nicolás Fuchs	Ford Fiesta R5	WRC-2	4:42:02.4	+7:56.3	18
3 (10.)	40	Jari Ketomaa	Kaj Lindström	Drive DMACK	Ford Fiesta R5	WRC-2	4:42:23.6	+8:17.5	15
4 (11.)	36	Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari	Marshall Clarke	Youth & Sports Qatar Rally Team	Fod Fiesta RRC	WRC-2	4:42:58.2	+8:52.1	12
5 (13.)	38	Yuriy Protasov	Pavlo Cherepin	Yuriy Protasov	Ford Fiesta RRC	WRC-2	4:52:44.2	+18:38.1	10
6 (14.)	33	Massimiliano Rendina	Mario Pizzuti	Motorsport Italia Srl	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	WRC-2	4:57:19.9	+23:13.8	8
7 (19.)	35	Jourdan Serderidis	Frédéric Miclotte	Jourdan Serderidis	Citroën DS3 R5	WRC-2	5:17:21.8	+43:15.7	6
Source: http://www.ewrc-results.com/final.php?e=19121&t=Rally-Guanajuato-Mexico-2015

Special stages

Championship standings after the race

WRC

Drivers' Championship standings

	Driver	Points
1	Sébastien Ogier	81
2	Andreas Mikkelsen	47
3	Thierry Neuville	35
4	Mads Østberg	32
5	Elfyn Evans	26

Manufacturers' Championship standings

	Constructor	Points
1	Volkswagen Motorsport	99
2	Hyundai Motorsport	75
3	M-Sport World Rally Team	48
4	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT	42
5	Jipocar Czech National Team	20

Other

WRC2 Drivers' Championship standings

	Driver	Points
1	Jari Ketomaa	40
2	Stéphane Lefebvre	25
3	Nasser Al-Attiyah	25
4	Craig Breen	18
5	Eyvind Brynildsen	18

WRC3 Drivers' Championship standings

	Driver	Points
1	Ole Christian Veiby	40
2	Quentin Gilbert	25
3	Christian Riedemann	18
4	Simone Tempestini	12
5	Stéphane Consani	10

JWRC Drivers' Championship standings

	Driver	Points
1	Quentin Gilbert	25
2	Christian Riedemann	18
3	Ole Christian Veiby	15
4	Simone Tempestini	12
5	Yohan Rossel	10

External links

• • The official website of the World Rally Championship

Notes and References

1. News: Unbeaten Ogier nets Mexico hat-trick. World Rally Championship. WRC Promoter GmbH. 8 March 2015. 23 January 2016.
2. News: Sebastien Ogier clinches dominant win for VW. Autosport. Haymarket Publications. 8 March 2015. 23 January 2016.
3. News: Al-Attiyah starts title defence with Mexico win. World Rally Championship. WRC Promoter GmbH. 9 March 2015. 23 January 2016.
4. News: TiTanak's Mexico escape goes global. World Rally Championship. WRC Promoter GmbH. 15 March 2015. 23 January 2016.
5. News: M-Sport Mechanics Earn Their Money As The Legend of "Titanak" is Born. Matthew. McMahon. The Checkered Flag. BlackEagleMedia. 11 March 2015. 23 January 2016.
6. News: Elfyn Evans 'extremely happy' after fourth place finish in Rally Mexico. North Wales Daily Post. Trinity Mirror. 10 March 2015. 23 January 2016. Despite the car spending almost 10 hours submerged in water, the M-Sport team had the car – dubbed TiTanak – back up and running to complete the Sunday’s final stages of the rally..
7. News: The making of "Titanak". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 9 March 2015. 23 January 2016.