The 2016 FIA Junior WRC Championship was the fourth season of Junior WRC, a rallying championship governed by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, running in support of the World Rally Championship.[1]
The championship was open to drivers under the age of twenty-eight. All teams contested six nominated European events,[2] with all of their scores counting towards their final championship position. The drivers competed in identical Citroën DS3 R3Ts with the 2014 homologated MAX Kit, using Michelin tyres.[3] The winner received a programme of six rallies in Europe in a Citroën DS3 R5, competing in the 2017 WRC2 Championship.[3]
The final 2016 Junior WRC calendar consisted of six European events (one less than 2015), taken from the 2016 World Rally Championship.[2]
| Round | Dates | Rally name | Rally headquarters | Surface | Stages | Distance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | Finish | |||||||
| 1 | 20 May | 22 May |  Rally de Portugal | Matosinhos, Porto | Gravel | 19 | 368 km | |
| 2 | 1 July | 3 July |  Rally Poland | Mikołajki, Warmia-Masuria | Gravel | 21 | 306.10 km | |
| 3 | 29 July | 31 July |  Rally Finland | Jyväskylä, Keski-Suomi | Gravel | 24 | 333.99 km | |
| 4 | 19 August | 21 August |  Rallye Deutschland | Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate | Tarmac | 18 | 306.80 km | |
| 5 | 2 October |  Tour de Corse | Ajaccio, Corse-du-Sud | Tarmac | 10 | 390.92 km | ||
| 6 | 28 October | 30 October |  Wales Rally GB | Deeside, Flintshire | Gravel | 22 | 336.00 km | |
The following drivers competed in the championship.
| Rounds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Mohamed Al-Mutawaa[4] | | Stephen McAuley | 1–4 | |
| Stuart Loudon[5] | 5–6 | |||
 | Andrea Crugnola | | Michele Ferrara | 1–4 | |
| Vincent Dubert | | Alexandre Coria | All | |
| Terry Folb | | Franck Le Floch | All | |
| Frédéric Hauswald | | Maxime Vilmot | 1 | |
 | Hans Thilo Himmel | Nicolaas Swartz | 1–2 | ||
 | Martin Koči |  | Lukáš Kostka | All | |
| Romain Martel | | Vanessa Lemoine | 1–5 | |
| Juuso Nordgren[6] | | Mikael Korhonen | 3 | |
| Laurent Pellier | | Benoit Neyret-Gigot | 5 | |
| Łukasz Pieniąźek | | Przemisław Mazur | 1–3 | |
| Yohan Rossel | | Benoît Fulcrand | 5–6 | |
| Simone Tempestini | | Giovanni Bernacchini | All | |
 | Ole Christian Veiby | | Stig Rune Skjærmoen | 1–5 | |
| William Wagner | | Antoine Paque | 5–6 |
| Round | Event name | Winning driver | Winning co-driver | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rally de Portugal | Simone Tempestini | Giovanni Bernacchini | 4:30:15.7 | Report |
| 2 | Rally Poland | Simone Tempestini | Giovanni Bernacchini | 3:04:11.3 | Report |
| 3 | Rally Finland | Ole Christian Veiby | Stig Rune Skjærmoen | 2:55:40.0 | Report |
| 4 | Rallye Deutschland | Simone Tempestini | Giovanni Bernacchini | 3:21:12.4 | Report |
| 5 | Tour de Corse | Laurent Pellier | 4:38:19.3 | Report | |
| 6 | Wales Rally GB | Martin Koči | 3:47:47.4 | Report | |
Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers.
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
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