Citroën DS3 WRC explained

Car Name:	Citroën DS3 WRC ^[1]
Category:	World Rally Car
Constructor:	Citroën Racing
Predecessor:	Citroën C4 WRC
Successor:	Citroën C3 WRC
Wrc:	yes
Team:	Citroën Total World Rally Team Citroën Junior Team Petter Solberg World Rally Team Qatar World Rally Team
Drivers:	Kris Meeke Mads Østberg Khalid Al Qassimi Sébastien Loeb Mikko Hirvonen Dani Sordo Sébastien Ogier Kimi Räikkönen Petter Solberg Thierry Neuville
Technical Ref:	^[2]
Chassis:	Reinforced body with welded, multi-point roll cage
Suspension:	MacPherson type
Length:	39481NaN1
Width:	18201NaN1
Wheelbase:	24611NaN1
Track:	16181NaN1
Engine Name:	Custom-built Citroën
Capacity:	15981NaN1
Configuration:	I4
Turbo/Na:	turbocharged
Engine Position:	transversal
Gearbox Name:	Sadev
Gears:	6-speed
Type:	sequential manual transmission
Differential:	Front and rear mechanical auto-locking differentials
Weight:	12001NaN1
Fuel:	Total
Tyres:	Michelin
Debut:	2011 Rally Sweden
First Win:	2011 Rally Mexico
Last Win:	2016 Rally Finland
Wins:	26
Titles:	6
Cons Champ:	2 (2011, 2012)
Drivers Champ:	2 (2011, 2012)

The Citroën DS3 WRC is the World Rally Car built for the Citroën World Rally Team by Citroën Racing for use from the 2011 World Rally Championship season. It is based upon the Citroën DS3 road car, and replaced the highly successful Citroën C4 WRC. It was built to the new World Rally Car regulations for 2011, which were based upon the existing Super 2000 regulations, but is powered by a turbocharged 1.6-litre engine rather than the normally aspirated 2-litre engine found in Super 2000 cars.

Development work on the car was carried out during 2010 by Citroën drivers Sébastien Loeb, Dani Sordo, Sébastien Ogier and test driver Philippe Bugalski, as well as sister Peugeot drivers Kris Meeke^[3] and Stéphane Sarrazin.^[4]

The engine has been specifically developed for this car (older regulations required that the engine be based on an existing mass-produced engine's cylinder block and head gasket). It officially develops at 6,000 rpm and at 3,250 rpm.^[2]

In October 2012, Citroën announced the DS3 RRC intended for use in the championships below that of the WRC: WRC-2 (formerly S-WRC), European Rally Championship (ERC), Middle East Rally Championship (MERC), some national championships and so on. Visually and internally, the two models (DS3 WRC and RRC) are different since the regulations are more restrictive on the RRC. For example, the WRC 1.6-litre turbocharged direct-injection engine has been slightly modified dropping the power from to, visually the bumper intakes are smaller and the rear spoiler complies with the S2000 standards. The other significant change concerns the brakes in tarmac configuration: the diameter of the discs has been reduced from 355 to 350 mm and the water-cooling system has been removed.^[5]

At the 2016 Rally Finland, Kris Meeke established a new record for the fastest FIA WRC round in history, with a 126.60 km/h average speed.^[6]

World Rally Championship results

WRC championship titles

Year	Title	Competitor	Entries	Wins	Podiums	Points
2011		13	5	9	222
		13	5	9	222
		26	10	18	403
2012	Sébastien Loeb	13	9	10	270
	Daniel Elena	13	9	10	270
		26	10	20	453

WRC victories

No.	Event	Season	Surface	Driver	Co-driver	Entrant
1	2011 Rally México	2011	Gravel	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total World Rally Team
2	2011 Rally de Portugal		Gravel	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën Total World Rally Team
3	2011 Jordan Rally		Gravel	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën Total World Rally Team
4	2011 Rally Italia Sardegna		Gravel	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total World Rally Team
5	2011 Rally Argentina		Gravel	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total World Rally Team
6	2011 Acropolis Rally		Gravel	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën Total World Rally Team
7	2011 Rally Finland		Gravel	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total World Rally Team
8	2011 Rallye Deutschland		Tarmac	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën Total World Rally Team
9	2011 Rallye de France		Tarmac	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën Total World Rally Team
10	2011 Rally Catalunya		Tarmac/gravel	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total World Rally Team
11	2012 Monte Carlo Rally	2012	Tarmac/snow	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total World Rally Team
12	2012 Rally México		Gravel	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total World Rally Team
13	2012 Rally Argentina		Gravel	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total World Rally Team
14	2012 Acropolis Rally		Gravel	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total World Rally Team
15	2012 Rally New Zealand		Gravel	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total World Rally Team
16	2012 Rally Finland		Gravel	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total World Rally Team
17	2012 Rallye Deutschland		Tarmac	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total World Rally Team
18	2012 Rallye de France		Tarmac	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total World Rally Team
19	2012 Rally Italia Sardegna		Gravel	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	Citroën Total World Rally Team
20	2012 Rally Catalunya		Tarmac/gravel	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total World Rally Team
21	2013 Monte Carlo Rally	2013	Tarmac/snow	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team
22	2013 Rally Argentina		Gravel	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team
23	2013 Rallye Deutschland		Tarmac	Dani Sordo	Carlos del Barrio	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team
24	2015 Rally Argentina	2015	Gravel	Kris Meeke	Paul Nagle	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team
25	2016 Rally de Portugal	2016	Gravel	Kris Meeke	Paul Nagle	Abu Dhabi Total World Rally Team
26	2016 Rally Finland	2016	Gravel	Kris Meeke	Paul Nagle	Abu Dhabi Total World Rally Team

Complete WRC results

Year	Entrant	Driver	Rounds														Points
Year	Entrant	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Points
2011	Citroën Total World Rally Team	Sébastien Loeb	SWE 6	MEX 1	POR 2	JOR 3	ITA 1	ARG 1	GRE 2	FIN 1	GER 2	AUS 10	FRA Ret	ESP 1	GBR Ret		425	1st
	Citroën Total World Rally Team	Sébastien Ogier	SWE 4	MEX Ret	POR 1	JOR 1	ITA 4	ARG 3	GRE 1	FIN 3	GER 1	AUS 11	FRA 1	ESP Ret	GBR 11		425	1st
	ICE 1 Racing	Kimi Räikkönen	SWE 8	MEX	POR 7	JOR 6	ITA	ARG	GRE 7	FIN 9	GER 6	AUS WD	FRA Ret	ESP Ret	GBR Ret		48	EX
	Petter Solberg World Rally Team	Petter Solberg	SWE 5	MEX 4	POR 6	JOR Ret	ITA 3	ARG 4	GRE 4	FIN 5	GER 5	AUS 3	FRA EX	ESP Ret	GBR Ret		98	4th
	Van Merksteijn Motorsport	Peter van Merksteijn Jr.	SWE	MEX	POR 22	JOR Ret	ITA Ret	ARG Ret	GRE Ret	FIN	GER 9	AUS 13	FRA Ret	ESP 17	GBR Ret		16	9th
	Van Merksteijn Motorsport	Peter van Merksteijn Sr.	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA Ret	ARG	GRE Ret	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR		16	9th
	Citroën Racing Technologies	Evgeny Novikov	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA	ARG	GRE	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP 7	GBR		–	–
2012	Citroën Total World Rally Team	Sébastien Loeb	MON 1	SWE 6	MEX 1	POR Ret	ARG 1	GRE 1	NZL 1	FIN 1	GER 1	GBR 2	FRA 1	ITA Ret	ESP 1		453	1st
	Citroën Total World Rally Team	Mikko Hirvonen	MON 4	SWE 2	MEX 2	POR EX	ARG 2	GRE 2	NZL 2	FIN 2	GER 3	GBR 5	FRA 3	ITA 1	ESP 3		453	1st
	Citroën Junior World Rally Team	Thierry Neuville	MON Ret	SWE 12	MEX 13	POR 8	ARG 5	GRE 6	NZL	FIN 16	GER 12	GBR 7	FRA 4	ITA	ESP 12		72	5th
	Qatar World Rally Team	Nasser Al-Attiyah	MON	SWE 21	MEX 6	POR 4	ARG 9	GRE Ret	NZL	FIN	GER 8	GBR 10	FRA Ret	ITA	ESP		71	6th
		Thierry Neuville	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL 5	FIN	GER	GBR	FRA	ITA 18	ESP
		Chris Atkinson	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN 39	GER	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP
		Hans Weijs, Jr.	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	GER	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP Ret
	Van Merksteijn Motorsport	Peter van Merksteijn Sr.	MON Ret	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	GER	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP		–	–
	Van Merksteijn Motorsport	Peter van Merksteijn Jr.	MON	SWE 19	MEX	POR 10	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	GER Ret	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP		–	–
	Collectif Equipe de France Rallye	Sébastien Chardonnet	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	GER	GBR	FRA 10	ITA	ESP		–	–
	PH Sport	Luca Pedersoli	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	GER	GBR	FRA	ITA 10	ESP		–	–
2013	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team	Sébastien Loeb	MON 1	SWE 2	MEX	POR	ARG 1	GRE	ITA	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA Ret	ESP	GBR		280	2nd
		Mikko Hirvonen	MON 4	SWE 17	MEX 2	POR 2	ARG 6	GRE 8	ITA Ret	FIN 4	GER 3	AUS 3	FRA 6	ESP 3	GBR Ret
		Dani Sordo	MON	SWE	MEX 4	POR 12	ARG	GRE 2	ITA 4	FIN 5	GER 1	AUS	FRA	ESP Ret	GBR 7
		Kris Meeke	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN	GER	AUS Ret	FRA	ESP	GBR
	Abu Dhabi Citroën Total World Rally Team	Dani Sordo	MON 3	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG 9	GRE	ITA	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA 2	ESP	GBR		63	6th
		Khalid Al Qassimi	MON	SWE Ret	MEX	POR 9	ARG	GRE Ret	ITA 10	FIN	GER 11	AUS 9	FRA	ESP 11	GBR
		Chris Atkinson	MON	SWE	MEX 6	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR
		Kris Meeke	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN Ret	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR
		Robert Kubica	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR Ret
		Dani Sordo	MON	SWE Ret	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR		–	–
	PH Sport	Bryan Bouffier	MON 5	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR		–	–
		Benito Guerra	MON	SWE	MEX 8	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR
		Tomáš Kostka	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA Ret	ESP	GBR
2014	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team	Kris Meeke	MON 3	SWE 10	MEX Ret	POR Ret	ARG 3	ITA 18	POL 7	FIN 3	GER Ret	AUS 4	FRA 3	ESP 19	GBR 6		210	2nd
		Mads Østberg	MON 4	SWE 3	MEX 9	POR 3	ARG Ret	ITA 2	POL Ret	FIN Ret	GER 6	AUS 16	FRA 7	ESP 4	GBR 3		210	2nd
		Khalid Al Qassimi	MON	SWE 16	MEX	POR 13	ARG	ITA 10	POL	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP 15	GBR		–	–
	Armando Pereira	Armando Pereira	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA Ret	ESP	GBR		–	–
2015	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team	Kris Meeke	MON 10	SWE 7	MEX 16	ARG 1	POR 4	ITA 24	POL 7	FIN 17	GER 12	AUS 3	FRA 4	ESP 5	GBR 2		230	2nd
		Sébastien Loeb	MON 8	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR
		Mads Østberg	MON	SWE 10	MEX 2	ARG 2	POR 7	ITA 5	POL 9	FIN 3	GER 7	AUS WD	FRA 6	ESP 4	GBR 7
		Stéphane Lefebvre	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	AUS 13	FRA	ESP	GBR
		Mads Østberg	MON 4	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR		–	–
		Khalid Al Qassimi	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG 6	POR 24	ITA 10	POL	FIN 16	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP 15	GBR
		Stéphane Lefebvre	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER 10	AUS	FRA 11	ESP	GBR 8
	PH Sport	Sébastien Chardonnet	MON 47	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR		–	–
	PH Sport	Stéphane Lefebvre	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP 50	GBR		–	–
	D-Max Racing	Yuriy Protasov	MON 16	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR		–	–
2016	Abu Dhabi Total World Rally Team	Kris Meeke	MON Ret	SWE 23	MEX	ARG	POR 1	ITA	POL	FIN 1	GER	CHN C	FRA 16	ESP Ret	GBR 5	AUS	–	–
		Stéphane Lefebvre	MON 5	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR 35	ITA	POL 9	FIN	GER Ret	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR 9	AUS
		Craig Breen	MON	SWE 8	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL 7	FIN 3	GER	CHN C	FRA 5	ESP 10	GBR Ret	AUS
		Khalid Al Qassimi	MON	SWE 19	MEX	ARG	POR 26	ITA	POL	FIN 16	GER	CHN C	FRA	ESP 12	GBR	AUS
		Marcos Ligato	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG 7	POR	ITA	POL	FIN 44	GER	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR	AUS
		José Alberto Nicolas	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG 18	POR	ITA	POL	FIN Ret	GER	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR	AUS
		Quentin Gilbert	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR 17	AUS
	D-Max Racing	Felice Re	MON 20	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR	AUS	–	–

References

DS3 WRC juwra.com

External links

Citroën World Rally Team

Notes and References

Web site: TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. 10 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120930070954/http://www.citroen-wrc.com/en/citroen-teams/citroen-ds3-wrc/. 30 September 2012. dead.
Web site: Citroën DS3 WRC - Citroën WRC . 1 December 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120930070954/http://www.citroen-wrc.com/en/citroen-teams/citroen-ds3-wrc/ . 30 September 2012 . dead .
Web site: Citroen DS3 WRC test Malaga – video clips | RallyBuzz . 2010-09-29 . dead . https://archive.today/20110728132407/http://www.rallybuzz.com/citroen-ds3-wrc-essai-malaga/ . 28 July 2011.
Web site: Citroen DS3 WRC test on asphalt with Dani Sordo [CLIP] | RallyBuzz . 2010-09-29 . dead . https://archive.today/20120305054434/http://www.rallybuzz.com/dsordo-ds3wrc-essais/ . 5 March 2012.
Web site: Citroën DS3 RRC: A new addition to the family!. 24 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121026081558/http://www.citroen-wrc.com/en/2012/news/citroen-racing-news/3672/citroen-ds3-rrc-a-new-addition-to-the-family/. 26 October 2012. dead.
Web site: Meeke wins record-breaking Finland - wrc.com. wrc.com. 17 April 2018.