The 2019 FIA WRC2 Championship was the seventh season of WRC2, a rallying championship organised and governed by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, running in support of the World Rally Championship. The championship is open to cars complying with R5 regulations.[1]
The 2019 season saw the creation of a new category within the championship, known as WRC2 Pro.[2] This was open to manufacturer entries competing in cars built to R5 specifications, while the wider WRC2 Championship was open to privately entered cars.
In accordance with the 2019 regulations, all crews in WRC2 were required to register as independent entrants. Teams were still allowed to be present, but only to prepare the car for the driver.[1]
| Manufacturer | Team | Car | Tyre | Crew details | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driver name | Rounds | ||||||
| Citroën |  CHL Sport Auto | Citroën C3 R5 | Yoann Bonato | 1, 4 | |||
| Citroën Total | 1, 4, 7–8, 10, 12–13 | ||||||
 G.Car Sport Racing | Tamara Molinaro | Lorenzo Granai | 2 | ||||
 Citroën Monster Procircuit Rally Team | Benjamín Israel | 6 | |||||
| Vincente Israel | 6 | ||||||
| Samuel Israel | 6 | ||||||
| Rosselot Rally Team |  Eduardo Castro | 6 | |||||
 Citroën Vodafone Team | José Pedro Fontes | Inês Ponte | 7 | ||||
| Saintéloc Junior Team | Eric Camilli | Benjamin Veillas | 13 | ||||
| MRT Motorsport | Citroën DS3 R5 | Germán Lyon |  Ignacio Uez | 6 | |||
| Volkswagen |  Kristoffersson Motorsport | 1–2, 4, 7–8, 12–13 | |||||
| 2, 9 | |||||||
 THX Racing | Nicolas Ciamin | Yannick Roche | 1, 4, 10 | ||||
 Printsport | Emil Lindholm | Mikael Korhonen | 2, 9, 13 | ||||
| Lars Stugemo | Kalle Lexe | 2 | |||||
| BMA Autosport | Eric Camilli | nowrap | François-Xavier Buresi | 4 | |||
| Alberto Heller | José Díaz | 12 | |||||
| 10 | |||||||
| 10 | |||||||
 Lotos Rally Team | 4–6, 10, 12–13 | ||||||
| Racing 4 You | 7 | ||||||
| PSRX Volkswagen Sweden | 12 | ||||||
| 12 | |||||||
| AR Vidal Racing | 13 | ||||||
| Ford |  M-Sport Ford World Rally Team | Ford Fiesta R5 | Adrien Fourmaux | 1, 4, 10, 12 | |||
| 3 | |||||||
| 5–6 | |||||||
| 3, 5–7 | |||||||
| Felipe Rossi | 6 | ||||||
| Emil Bergkvist | Patrik Barth | 2, 7 | |||||
| "Pedro" | Emanuele Baldaccini | 4, 7 | |||||
 Nil Solans | Marc Martí | 4, 8 | |||||
| Tommi Mäkinen Racing | 2, 4–8 | ||||||
 Castrol Ford Team Türkiye | Murat Bostanci | 11 | |||||
| Bugra Banaz | 11 | ||||||
| Tommi Mäkinen Racing | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II |  Takamoto Katsuta | Daniel Barritt | 9 | |||
| M-Sport Ford World Rally Team | "Pedro" | Emanuele Baldaccini | 10–11 | ||||
| Jan Solans | 13 | ||||||
 Gaurav Gill | 11–12, 14 | ||||||
| Adrien Fourmaux | Renaud Jamoul | 13 | |||||
| Alberto Heller | 13 | ||||||
| Škoda | BMA Autosport | Škoda Fabia R5 |  Grégoire Munster | Louis Louka | 1, 9 | ||
| Brettex Site Services | Rhys Yates | Denis Giraudet | 1 | ||||
| James Morgan | 2, 4, 7, 10 | ||||||
| Sportec Engineering | Manuel Villa | Daniele Michi | 1 | ||||
| Toksport World Rally Team |  Henning Solberg |  Ilka Minor | 2, 7, 11–12 | ||||
| Yigit Timur | Maxime Vilmot | 2 | |||||
| Eyvind Brynildsen | Veronica Engan | 2 | |||||
| Sports Racing Technologies |  Nikolay Gryazin | Yaroslav Fedorov | 2 | ||||
| 4, 7–10 | |||||||
| Printsport | Jari Huttunen | Antti Linnaketo | 2 | ||||
| Tomi Tukiainen | Mikko Pohjanharju | 9 | |||||
| Brink Motorsport | Martin Berglund | Joakim Gevert | 2 | ||||
| Max Rpm | Patrik Flodin | Göran Bergsten | 2 | ||||
| Pontus Tidemand Racing | Mattias Monelius | Nicklas Edvardsson | 2 | ||||
| SMK Sundsvall | Anton Eriksson | Lars Andersson | 2 | ||||
| SXM Compétition | Joakim Roman | Ida Lidebjer | 2 | ||||
| Sébastien Bedoret | Thomas Walbrecq | 4 | |||||
| Race Seven |  Benito Guerra | Jamie Zapata | 3, 5–7 | ||||
 Marco Bulacia | Fabian Cretu | 11–14 | |||||
| RB Motorsport | 8 | ||||||
| Free Rally Service | 3 | ||||||
| 2C Competition | Pierre-Louis Loubet | Vincent Landais | 4, 7–8 | ||||
| Motorsport Italia | Fabio Andolfi | Simone Scattolin | 4, 8, 10, 13–14 | ||||
| Emanuele Inglesi | 11–12 | ||||||
 Paulo Nobre | Gabriel Morales | 5–6, 9, 11–13 | |||||
| Diogo Salvi | Hugo Magalhães | 11 | |||||
| Sport & You | Paulo Babo | 7 | |||||
| Miguel Barbosa | Jorge Carvalho | 7 | |||||
| Susaron Rally Team | Emilio Fernández | Joaquin Riquelme | 6 | ||||
| CB Tech Rally by Škoda | Jorge Martínez | Alberto Alvarez | 6 | ||||
| Alejandro Cancio | Santiago García | 6 | |||||
| Cristóbal Vidaurre | Rubén García | 6 | |||||
| ARC Sport | Ricardo Teodósio | José Teixeira | 7 | ||||
| Pedro Almeida | Nuno Almeida | 7 | |||||
| TGS Worldwide | Eerik Pietarinen | Juhana Raitanen | 7 | ||||
| P&B Racing | António Dias | Nuno Rodrigues da Silva | 7 | ||||
| Lotos Rally Team | 8, 11 | ||||||
| BC Vision Motorsport | Burak Cukurova | Vedat Bostanci | 11 | ||||
| Deniz Fahri | Bahadir Gücenmez | 11 | |||||
| Bora Manyera | Çem Cerkez | 11 | |||||
| Calm Competició | José Antonio Suarez | Alberto Iglesias | 13 | ||||
| 2C Competition | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | Pierre-Louis Loubet | Vincent Randais | 9, 12–14 | |||
| Toksport World Rally Team | Henning Solberg | Ilka Minor | 9 | ||||
| SXM Compétition | Sébastien Bedoret | Thomas Walbrecq | 10 | ||||
| Škoda Auto Deutschland | Marijan Griebel | Pirmin Winklhofer | 10 | ||||
| Fabian Kreim | Tobias Braun | 10 | |||||
| Race Seven | Benito Guerra | Daniel Cué | 12 | ||||
| Jamie Zapata | 13–14 | ||||||
| Sports Racing Technologies | Nikolay Gryazin | Yaroslav Fedorov | 13 | ||||
| Hyundai | HMI Hyundai Italian Rally Team | Hyundai i20 R5 | "Pedro" | 1 | |||
 Hyundai Motorsport N |  Simone Tempestini | Sergio Itu | 4, 7–8, 10, 12–13 | ||||
| Jari Huttunen | Antti Linnaketo | 7 | |||||
| Mikko Lukka | 9 | ||||||
| Point Cola Racing | Martín Scuncio | 6 | |||||
| Tomás Etcheverry | 6 | ||||||
| Team Hyundai Portugal | Armindo Araújo | Luis Ramalho | 7 | ||||
| Bruno Magalhães | Hugo Magalhães | 7 | |||||
| Sarrazin Motorsport | Dominik Dinkel | Christina Fürst | 10 | ||||
| Melvyn Evans Motorsport | Rhys Yates | James Morgan | 12–13 | ||||
| Peugeot | Peugeot Sport Chile | Peugeot 208 T16 R5 | nowrap | Francisco López | Nicolás Levalle | 6 | |
| Source:[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] | |||||||
Daniel Barritt left the M-Sport World Rally Team to partner Toyota protégé Takamoto Katsuta.[13]
The formation of the WRC2 Pro championship saw the introduction of changes to eligibility. The Pro category was open to manufacturer-supported entries, with teams permitted to enter two crews per event. Pro entries must contest a minimum of eight rallies, including one outside Europe. Only the eight best results will contribute to the Pro championship. Crews contesting the wider WRC2 will not face any such restrictions.[14]
The team's championship of the wider WRC2 was discontinued. Entrants in the championship were required to register under the name of the crew's driver.[1]
| Round | Event | Report | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3:35:12.4 | Report | |||||
| 2 | Rally Sweden | nowrap | Ole Christian Veiby | Jonas Andersson | 2:54:04.0 | Report | |
| 3 | Rally Guanajuato México | Benito Guerra | nowrap | Jaime Zapata | 3:52:43.5 | Report | |
| 4 | Tour de Corse | Fabio Andolfi | Simone Scattolin | 3:34:28.6 | Report | ||
| 5 | Rally Argentina | Pedro Heller | Marc Martí | 3:41:09.1 | Report | ||
| 6 | Rally Chile | Takamoto Katsuta | Daniel Barritt | 3:29:26.7 | Report | ||
| 7 | Rally de Portugal | nowrap | Pierre-Louis Loubet | Vincent Landais | 3:33:09.1 | Report | |
| 8 | Rally Italia Sardegna | Pierre-Louis Loubet | Vincent Landais | 3:43:40.2 | Report | ||
| 9 | Rally Finland | Nikolay Gryazin | Yaroslav Fedorov | 2:41:09.0 | Report | ||
| 10 |  ADAC Rallye Deutschland | Fabian Kreim | Tobias Braun | 3:28:16.7 | Report | ||
| 11 | Marmaris Rally of Turkey | nowrap | Kajetan Kajetanowicz | nowrap | Maciek Szczepaniak | 4:06:00.4 | Report |
| 12 | Wales Rally GB | Petter Solberg | Phil Mills | 3:12:34.1 | Report | ||
| 13 | Eric Camilli | Benjamin Veillas | 3:16:26.8 | Report | |||
| 14 |  Rally Australia | Rally cancelled (due to bushfires) | Report[15] | ||||
Points were awarded to the top ten classified finishers in each event.
| 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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