The 2020 FIA WRC2 Championship was the eighth season of WRC2, a rallying championship organised and governed by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile as the second-highest tier of international rallying. The category was open to cars entered by manufacturers and complying with R5 regulations.[1]
Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen were the reigning drivers' and co-drivers' champions, but they did not defend their titles as they were contesting the World Rally Championship with Toyota.[2]
At the conclusion of the championship, Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen won the Drivers' and Co-Drivers' championships, while Toksport WRT won the teams' title.
The following teams and crews that entered in the 2020 WRC2:
| Entrant | Car | Driver name | nowrap | Co-driver name | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 PH-Sport | Citroën C3 R5 |  Mads Østberg | nowrap | Torstein Eriksen | 1–2, 4, 6–7 |
 Hyundai Motorsport N | Hyundai i20 R5 |  Nikolay Gryazin | Yaroslav Fedorov | 1–3 | |
| nowrap | Konstantin Aleksandrov | 4, 6 | |||
| nowrap | Ole Christian Veiby | nowrap |  Jonas Andersson | 1–4, 6 | |
 M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II | nowrap | Adrien Fourmaux |  Renaud Jamoul | 1–2, 4–7 |
| Rhys Yates | James Morgan | 1–2 | |||
 Toksport WRT | Škoda Fabia R5 Evo | Pontus Tidemand | Patrik Barth | 2–7 | |
| Eyvind Brynildsen |  Ilka Minor | 4–6 | |||
 Jan Kopecký | Jan Hloušek | 7 | |||
| Source:[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] | |||||
Citroën's factory team entered selected rounds of the 2019 championship, but did not compete in 2020 after the company withdrew from rallying. The Citroën C3 R5 remained available to independent teams.[10] PH Sport ran one C3 R5 for Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen.[11]
M-Sport Ford WRT committed two cars to the championship for crews led by Adrien Fourmaux and Rhys Yates.[12] Gus Greensmith and co-driver Elliott Edmondson, who drove for the team in 2019, did not contest the championship as they joined the sport's premier class.[13]
Hyundai Motorsport entered the championship under the name Hyundai Motorsport N. The team entered two Hyundai i20 R5s, one for Nikolay Gryazin and Yaroslav Fedorov, and the other for Ole Christian Veiby and Jonas Andersson.[3]
Toksport WRT became the first independent team to join the championship. The team entered a Škoda Fabia R5 Evo for 2017 WRC2 Championship drivers' champion, Pontus Tidemand.[14]
Škoda announced that they would not enter a works team, arguing that Škoda Motorsport had proven themselves as a team and that the company would instead turn to supporting independent teams and drivers in 2020.[15] Similarly, Volkswagen did not enter a works team. The company cancelled all of its petrol-powered motorsport programmes to focus on electric racing, but would allow development of the Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 to continue.[16]
In 2019, the existing WRC2 championship was split into two championships for manufacturer teams and privateers. However, this structure was found to be too confusing,[17] and so the category was re-structured for the 2020 season. Professional crews contested WRC2 and privateers in WRC3.[17]
| Round | Event | nowrap | Winning driver | nowrap | Winning co-driver | nowrap | Winning entrant | nowrap | Winning time | nowrap | Report | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nowrap |  Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo | nowrap | Mads Østberg | nowrap | Torstein Eriksen | PH-Sport | 3:25:19.4 | Report | [18] | ||
| 2 | Rally Sweden | Mads Østberg | Torstein Eriksen | PH-Sport | 1:15:53.1 | Report | [19] | |||||
| 3 |  Rally Guanajuato México | nowrap | Pontus Tidemand | Patrik Barth | nowrap | Toksport WRT | 2:58:16.9 | Report | [20] | |||
| 4 |  Rally Estonia | Mads Østberg | Torstein Eriksen | PH-Sport | 2:08:10.9 | Report | [21] | |||||
| 5 |  Marmaris Rally of Turkey | Pontus Tidemand | Patrik Barth | Toksport WRT | 2:56:02.4 | Report | [22] | |||||
| 6 |  Rally Italia Sardegna | Pontus Tidemand | Patrik Barth | Toksport WRT | 2:51:58.4 | Report | [23] | |||||
| 7 | ACI Rally Monza | nowrap | Mads Østberg | nowrap | Torstein Eriksen | PH-Sport | 2:21:18.4 | Report | [24] | |||
Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers in each event. Unlike the World Rally Championship, extra points are not awarded for the Power Stage.
| nowrap | Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
(Results key)
| Driver | MON | SWE | MEX | EST | TUR | ITA | MNZ | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mads Østberg | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 112 | |||
| 2 | Pontus Tidemand | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 108 | ||
| 3 | Adrien Fourmaux | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Ret | 4 | 78 | ||
| 4 | Ole Christian Veiby | Ret | 2 | 3 | Ret | 2 | 51 | |||
| 5 | Nikolay Gryazin | 3 | 6 | 2 | 5 | Ret | 51 | |||
| 6 | Eyvind Brynildsen | 4 | 3 | 3 | 42 | |||||
| 7 | Rhys Yates | 4 | 5 | 22 | ||||||
| 8 | Jan Kopecký | 3 | 15 | |||||||
| Driver | MON | SWE | MEX | EST | TUR | ITA | MNZ | Points | ||
| Source:[25] | ||||||||||
(Results key)
| Co-Driver | MON | SWE | MEX | EST | TUR | ITA | MNZ | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Torstein Eriksen | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 112 | |||
| 2 | Patrik Barth | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 108 | ||
| 3 | Renaud Jamoul | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Ret | 4 | 78 | ||
| 4 | Jonas Andersson | Ret | 2 | 3 | Ret | 2 | 51 | |||
| 5 | Ilka Minor | 4 | 3 | 3 | 42 | |||||
| 6 | Yaroslav Fedorov | 3 | 6 | 2 | 41 | |||||
| 7 | James Morgan | 4 | 5 | 22 | ||||||
| 8 | Jan Hloušek | 3 | 15 | |||||||
| 9 | Konstantin Aleksandrov | 5 | Ret | 10 | ||||||
| Co-Driver | MON | SWE | MEX | EST | TUR | ITA | MNZ | Points | ||
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(Results key)
| Team | MON | SWE | MEX | EST | TUR | ITA | MNZ | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toksport WRT | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 147 | |||
| 4 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | PH-Sport | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 112 | |||
| 3 | Hyundai Motorsport N | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 102 | |||
| Ret | 6 | 3 | Ret | Ret | ||||||
| 4 | M-Sport Ford WRT | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Ret | 88 | |||
| 4 | 5 | |||||||||
| Team | MON | SWE | MEX | EST | TUR | ITA | MNZ | Points | ||
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