| 2020 Monte Carlo Rally | |
| Native Name: | 88e Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo |
| Round: | 1 |
| Season No: | 7 |
| Championship: | 2020 World Rally Championship |
| Next Round: | 2020 Rally Sweden |
| Start: | Quai Albert, Monaco |
| Finish: | Casino Square, Monaco |
| Rallybase: | Gap, Hautes-Alpes |
| Startdate: | 23 |
| Enddate: | 26 January 2020 |
| Stages: | 16 |
| Stagekm: | 304.28 |
| Stagekm Note: | [1] |
| Transportkm: | 1,201.36 |
| Overallkm: | 1,505.64 |
| Surface: | Tarmac and snow |
| Driver1: |  Thierry Neuville |
| Codriver1: | Nicolas Gilsoul |
| Team1: |  Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT |
| Time1: | 3:10:57.6 |
| Driver2: |  Mads Østberg |
| Codriver2: | Torstein Eriksen |
| Team2: |  PH-Sport |
| Time2: | 3:25:19.4 |
| Driver3: | Eric Camilli |
| Codriver3: | François-Xavier Buresi |
| Time3: | 3:24:39.8 |
| Powerstage Driver: | Thierry Neuville |
| Powerstage Codriver: | Nicolas Gilsoul |
| Powerstage Team: | Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT |
| Powerstage Time: | 9:39.0 |
| Crewsreg: | 88 |
| Teamsstart: | 85 |
| Teamsfinish: | 73 |
The 2020 Monte Carlo Rally (also known as the 88e Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 23 and 26 January 2020.[2] It marked the eighty-eighth running of the Monte Carlo Rally, and was the first round of the 2020 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. The 2020 event was based in the town of Gap in the Hautes-Alpes department of France and consisted of sixteen special stages. The rally covered a total competitive distance of 304.282NaN2.[1]
Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were the defending rally winners.[3] The Citroën World Rally Team, the team they drove for in 2019, were the reigning manufacturers' winners, but were not defending their title after parent company Citroën withdrew from the sport.[4] Gus Greensmith and Elliott Edmondson were the defending winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category, but were not defending their WRC-2 title as they joined the WRC category in 2020.[5] In the World Rally Championship-3 category, French privateers Yoann Bonato and Benjamin Boulloud were the reigning rally winners.[5]
Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the overall winners of the rally, winning the Monte Carlo rally for the first time. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturers' winners.[6] Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen were the winners in the WRC-2 category, while Eric Camilli and François-Xavier Buresi were the winners in the WRC-3 category.[7]
The following crews were entered into the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, its support categories, the World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3, and privateer entries that were not registered to score points in any championship. A total of eighty-eight entries were received, with eleven crews entered in World Rally Cars, five crews entered Group R5 cars in the World Rally Championship-2 and a further thirteen crews entered Group R5 cars in the World Rally Championship-3.
The route for the 2020 rally features a total of 304.282NaN2 in competitive kilometres,[1] which is 19.552NaN2 shorter than the route that was used in the 2019 event.[9] The 2020 route features substantial revisions to the route used in 2019, with the addition of the Malijal - Puimichel, Curbans - Venterol and St. Clement-sur-Durance - Freissinieres stages. The Bayons - Bréziers stage returned to the rally after being absent in 2019, while the Valdrôme — Sigottier and Roussieux — Laborel stages were removed from the itinerary.
All dates and times are CET (UTC+1).
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