Production World Rally Championship Explained

The FIA Production car World Rally Championship, or PWRC, was a companion rally series to the World Rally Championship, contested mainly by Group N rally cars.

History

The series started in 1987 as FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers and obtained the world championship status in 2002.^{[1] [2]} The eligible cars were still Group N modified road cars such as the Subaru Impreza WRX and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. Between 2007 and 2009 the PWRC allowed Super 2000 cars alongside regular Group N entries. In 2010 the S2000 cars were moved to a dedicated championship named SWRC (Super 2000 World Championship). With the introduction of Group R cars since 2008, the PWRC was cancelled at the end of 2012 and was replaced by the World Rally Championship-3 open exclusively to 2WD based cars homologated in R1, R2 and R3 classes. The 4WD Group N cars were moved to the new World Rally Championship-2 alongside S2000, RRC, R4 and R5 cars.^{[3] [4]}

Results

Drivers' Championship

Season	Champion		2nd place		3rd place
	Driver	Car	Driver	Car	Driver	Car
PWRC
2012	Benito Guerra	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	Marcos Ligato	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Valeriy Gorban	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
2011	Hayden Paddon	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Patrik Flodin	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Michał Kościuszko	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
2010	Armindo Araújo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	Patrik Flodin	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Hayden Paddon	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
2009	Armindo Araújo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	Martin Prokop	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2008	Andreas Aigner	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	Juho Hänninen	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	Jari Ketomaa	Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2007	Toshi Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Gabriel Pozzo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	Mark Higgins	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
2006	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Fumio Nutahara	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	Mirco Baldacci	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
2005	Toshi Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Marcos Ligato	Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2004	Niall McShea	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Toshi Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Jani Paasonen	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII
2003	Martin Rowe	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Toshi Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Stig Blomqvist	Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2002	Karamjit Singh	Proton Pert	Kristian Sohlberg	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII	Ramón Ferreyros	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII
FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers
2001	Gabriel Pozzo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI	Manfred Stohl	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI
2000	Manfred Stohl	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI	Gabriel Pozzo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI
1999	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V / Evo VI	Hamed Al-Wahaibi	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V / Evo VI	Toshi Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX
1998	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV / Evo V	Manfred Stohl	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo V	Luís Climent	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV / Proton Wira 4WD
1997	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III	Luís Climent	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV	Manfred Stohl	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV
1996	Gustavo Trelles	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Subaru Impreza WRX	Uwe Nittel	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III	Pascal Smets	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III
1995	Rui Madeira	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II	Jorge Recalde	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II	Isolde Holderied	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II
1994	Jesús Puras	Ford Escort RS Cosworth	Isolde Holderied	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo I / Evo II	Jorge Recalde	Mitsubishi Lancer RS / Evo II
1993	Alex Fassina	Mazda 323 GTR	António Coutinho	Ford Escort RS Cosworth	Jarmo Kytölehto	Mitsubishi Galant VR-4
1992	Grégoire De Mévius	Nissan Sunny GTI-R	Hiroshi Nishiyama	Nissan Sunny GTI-R	Carlos Menem, Jr.	Lancia Delta HF Integrale
1991	Grégoire De Mévius	Mazda 323 GTX	Fernando Capdevila	Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4	Carlos Menem, Jr.	Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4
					Piergiorgio Bedini	Lancia Delta Integrale 16V / Volkswagen Golf GTi 16V
1990	Alain Oreille	Renault 5 GT Turbo	Gustavo Trelles	Lancia Delta Integrale 16V	Tommi Mäkinen	Mitsubishi Galant VR-4
1989	Alain Oreille	Renault 5 GT Turbo	Grégoire De Mévius	Mazda 323 4WD	Gustavo Trelles	Lancia Delta Integrale 16V
1988	Pascal Gaban	Mazda 323 4WD	Jorge Recalde	Lancia Delta Integrale	Giovanni Del Zoppo	Lancia Delta Integrale
1987	Alex Fiorio	Lancia Delta HF Integrale	Ove Olofsson	Lancia Delta HF 4WD / Audi Coupé Quattro	Bertrand Balas	Lancia Delta HF 4WD
					Sören Nilsson	Audi Coupé Quattro
					Claude Balesi	Renault 5 GT Turbo
					Evangelos Gallo	Toyota Corolla GT
					Fredrik Donner	Subaru RX Turbo
					Franco Cunico	Lancia Delta HF 4WD
					George Donaldson	Ford Sierra RS Cosworth
Source:^[5] ^[6]

See also

• Junior World Rally Championship
• World Rally Championship-2
• World Rally Championship-3

External links

• PWRC at WRC.com
• PWRC at ewrc-results.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cup for Drivers of Production Cars . https://web.archive.org/web/19970605133041/http://www.fia.com/regle/reg_spt/pipro97a.htm . 5 June 1997 . dead.
2. Web site: 2002 Sporting Regulations . https://web.archive.org/web/20020805043903/http://www.fia.com/Reglements-sportifs/Rallyes-2002-a.htm . 5 August 2002 . dead.
3. Web site: 2013 FIA World Rally Championship Sporting Regulations .
4. Web site: Production Car World Rally Championship . Jonkka's World Rally Archive . 3 March 2020.
5. Web site: FIA Group N Cup/PWRC Championship Winners . WRC . 3 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120827205642/http://www.wrc.com/pwrc/statistics/championship-winners/p-wrc . 27 August 2012 . live .
6. Web site: Top stats - eWRC-results.com .