| 2020 Rally Mexico | |
| Native Name: | 17. Rally Guanajuato Mexico |
| Round: | 3 |
| Season No: | 7 |
| Championship: | 2020 World Rally Championship |
| Previous Round: | 2020 Rally Sweden |
| Next Round: | 2020 Rally Estonia |
| Start: | Guanajuato City, Guanajuato |
| Finish: | León, Guanajuato |
| Rallybase: | León, Guanajuato |
| Startdate: | 12 |
| Enddate: | 15 March 2020 |
| Stages: | 24 |
| Stagekm: | 324.85 |
| Stagekm Note: | [1] |
| Transportkm: | 634.40 |
| Overallkm: | 959.25 |
| Surface: | Gravel |
| Driver1: |  Sébastien Ogier |
| Codriver1: | Julien Ingrassia |
| Team1: |  Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT |
| Time1: | 2:47:47.6 |
| Driver2: |  Pontus Tidemand |
| Codriver2: | Patrick Barth |
| Team2: |  Toksport WRT |
| Time2: | 2:58:16.9 |
| Driver3: |  Marco Bulacia Wilkinson |
| Codriver3: |  Giovanni Bernacchini |
| Time3: | 3:01:25.1 |
| Powerstage Driver: | cancelled |
| Cancel1: | Final leg |
| Reason1: | travel restrictions to Europe |
| Crewsreg: | 40 |
| Teamsstart: | 34 |
| Teamsfinish: | 21 |
The 2020 Rally Mexico (also known as the Rally Guanajuato Mexico 2020) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 12 and 15 March 2020.[2] It marked the seventeenth running of Rally Mexico and was the third 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 León in Guanajuato and consists of eleven special stages. The rally covered a total competitive distance of 324.852NaN2.[1]
Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were the defending rally winners.[3] 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] Łukasz Pieniążek and Kamil Heller were the defending winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category, but they did not compete the rally.[5] In the World Rally Championship-3 category, Local privateers Benito Guerra and Jaime Zapata were the reigning rally winners.[5]
Ogier and Ingrassia successfully defended their titles, clinching their sixth Mexico win. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the manufacturers' winners.[6] Pontus Tidemand and Patrick Barth were the winners in the WRC-2 category.[7] Marco Bulacia Wilkinson and Giovanni Bernacchini were the winners in the WRC-3 category, winning their first victory in the class.[8]
Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin entered the round as championships leaders. Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were second, albeit they were level on points. Six-time world champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were third, a slender five points behind. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT held a ten-point lead over defending manufacturers' champions Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, following by M-Sport Ford WRT.
In the World Rally Championship-2 standings, Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen held a twenty-point lead ahead of Adrien Fourmaux and Renaud Jamoul in the drivers' and co-drivers' standings respectively, with Nikolay Gryazin and Yaroslav Fedorov in third. In the manufacturer' championship, M-Sport Ford WRT led PH-Sport by two points.
In the World Rally Championship-3 standings, the crew of Eric Camilli and François-Xavier Buresi, and Jari Huttunen and Mikko Lukka tied in the standings. They led drivers' and co-drivers' standings by seven points respectively, ahead of Nicolas Ciamin and Yannick Roche.
The following crews entered into the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, its support categories, the World Rally Championship-2, World Rally Championship-3, and Junior World Rally Championship and privateer entries that were not registered to score points in any championship. Forty entries were received, with ten crews entered in World Rally Cars, three Group R5 cars entered in the World Rally Championship-2 and eleven in the World Rally Championship-3.
All the stages are located in the state of Guanajuato.[1] The final day of the rally was cancelled in response to increased travel restrictions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, the rally concluded following stage 21, with full points awarded at the end of Saturday.[10]
All dates and times are CST (UTC-6).
Deividas Jocius
José Díaz
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