| 2019 Rally Deutschland | |
| Native Name: | 37. ADAC Rallye Deutschland |
| Round: | 10 |
| Season No: | 14 |
| Championship: | 2019 World Rally Championship |
| Previous Round: | 2019 Rally Finland |
| Next Round: | 2019 Rally Turkey |
| Rallybase: | Bostalsee, Saarland |
| Start: | Winterbach, Saarland |
| Finish: | Sankt Wendel, Saarland |
| Startdate: | 22 |
| Enddate: | 25 August 2019 |
| Stages: | 19 |
| Stagekm: | 344.04 |
| Stagekm Note: | [1] |
| Transportkm: | 844.19 |
| Overallkm: | 1,228.23 |
| Surface: | Tarmac |
| Driver1: |  Ott Tänak |
| Codriver1: | Martin Järveoja |
| Team1: |  Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT |
| Time1: | 3:15:29.8 |
| Driver2pro: |  Jan Kopecký |
| Codriver2pro: | Pavel Dresler |
| Team2pro: | Škoda Motorsport |
| Time2pro: | 3:27:24.1 |
| Driver2: | Fabian Kreim |
| Codriver2: | Tobias Braun |
| Team2: | Fabian Kreim |
| Time2: | 3:28:16.7 |
| Powerstage Driver: |  Thierry Neuville |
| Powerstage Codriver: | Nicolas Gilsoul |
| Powerstage Team: |  Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT |
| Crewsreg: | 55 |
| Teamsstart: | 52 |
| Teamsfinish: | 41 |
The 2019 Rallye Deutschland (also known as ADAC Rallye Deutschland 2019) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 22 and 25 August 2019.[2] It marked the thirty-seventh running of Rallye Deutschland and was the tenth round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and the newly created WRC-2 Pro class. The 2019 event was based at the Bostalsee in Saarland, and was contested over nineteen special stages with a total a competitive distance of 344.042NaN2.
Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were the defending rally winners. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the defending manufacturers' winners.[3] The Škoda Motorsport crew of Jan Kopecký and Pavel Dresler were the defending winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category, but they did not defend their titles as they were promoted to the newly created WRC-2 Pro class.[4]
Tänak and Järveoja successfully defended their titles to get German hat-trick. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, won the rally and covered all three podium places for the first time since 1993 Safari Rally.[5] The Škoda Motorsport crew of Jan Kopecký and Pavel Dresler took their first victory of the season in the WRC-2 Pro category, finishing first in the combined WRC-2 category, while the local crew of Fabian Kreim and Tobias Braun won the wider WRC-2 class.[6]
Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja led both the drivers' and co-drivers' championships with a twenty-two-point ahead of defending world champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia. Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were third, a further three points behind. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT held a twenty-four-point lead over Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT.[7]
In the World Rally Championship-2 Pro standings, Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen held a thirty-eight-point lead ahead of Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen in the drivers' and co-drivers' standings respectively. Gus Greensmith and Elliott Edmondson were third, another thirteen points further back. In the manufacturers' championship, Škoda Motorsport led M-Sport Ford WRT by three points, with Citroën Total sixty-one points behind in third.[8]
In the World Rally Championship-2 standings, Benito Guerra and Jaime Zapata led the drivers' and co-drivers' standings by eighteen points respectively. Pierre-Louis Loubet and Vincent Landais crew and Nikolay Gryazin and Yaroslav Fedorov crew tied in second.[8]
The following crews entered into the rally. The event opened to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2, WRC-2 Pro and privateer entries not registered to score points in any championship. A total of fifty-five entries were received, with eleven crews entered with World Rally Cars and nineteen entered the World Rally Championship-2. Four crews were nominated to score points in the Pro class.
The competitive distance was increased from the 2018 event, while the liaison sections were shortened. The second leg features with a new format, with a pair of stages run twice in the morning and another pair run twice in the afternoon.[10] This differs from the traditional format where all stages are run once before the second pass in the afternoon.
All dates and times are CEST (UTC+2).
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