Christopher Atkinson

Chris Atkinson

Nation:	Australia
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally New Zealand 2004
Last rally:	Rally Mexico 2014
Co-driver:	Stéphane Prévot
Team:	Hyundai World Rally Team
Vehicle:	Hyundai i20 WRC
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 77 - 6th 42
Points:	165
Status: According to the 2014 season
Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC)
First rally:	Geko Ypres Rally 2010
Last rally:	Rally Monte Carlo 2011
Co-driver:	Stéphane Prévot
Team:	Proton Motorsport
Vehicle:	Proton Satria Neo S2000
Rallies: Victories: Podiums: WP 3 - - -
Points:	-
Status: After the 2011 season

Christopher "Chris" Atkinson (born November 30, 1979 in Bega , Australia ) is an Australian rally driver .

Athletic career

Atkinson won two titles in the FIA Asia-Pacific Super 1600 series in 2003 and 2004 . In 2004 he made his WRC debut for the Subaru factory team at the New Zealand Rally . From 2005 he started as a regular driver for Subaru WRT alongside Petter Solberg . Atkinson's best positions so far were two second places in the overall results of the Rally Mexico and Argentina in the 2008 season .

C. Atkinson / S. Prévot, Subaru Impreza, Rallye Deutschland 2008

In 2009 , After Subaru withdrew, Atkinson moved to the newly formed Citroën Junior Team on a Citroën C4 WRC . There he was a teammate of Conrad Rautenbach , Sébastien Ogier and Evgeny Novikov .

After Atkinson made a brief appearance at the 2012 WRC round in Mexico in the Monster World Rally Team alongside Ken Block and started in the Citroën DS3 WRC for the Qatar World Rally Team in the Rally Finland , he returned to the WRC as a regular driver for the MINI Portugal team . He replaced the works driver Armindo Araujo there for the last five races of the 2012 World Rally Championship . The following year Atkinson started the Rally Mexico where he finished sixth and in 2014 he got a contract with the Hyundai World Rally Team for some rallies.

statistics

Individual results WRC

year	team	automobile	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	rank	Points
2004	Chris Atkinson	Subaru Impreza WRX STI				NZL DNF					FIN 33							OFF 5	16	4th
		Suzuki Ignis S1600											JPN 12
2005	Subaru World Rally Team	Subaru Impreza WRC		SWE 19															12	13
		Subaru Impreza WRC			MEX DNF	NZL 7	ITA 18	CYP 10	TUR 24	GRE DNF	ARG 9	FIN DNF	GER 11	GBR 38	JPN 3	FRA DNF	ESP 9	OFF 4
2006	Subaru Rally Team Australia	Subaru Impreza WRC	MON 6			ESP 11	FRA 13				GER 8								10	20th
	Subaru World Rally Team	Subaru Impreza WRC		SWE 11	MEX 7			ARG 6	ITA 10	GRE 11		FIN 13	JPN 4	CYP 9	TUR 6	OFF 9	NZL DNF	GBR 6
2007	Subaru World Rally Team	Subaru Impreza WRC	MON 4	SWE 8	NOR 19														7th	31
		Subaru Impreza WRC				MEX 5	POR DNF	ARG 7	ITA 10	GRE 6	FIN 4	GER 15	NZL 4	ESP 8	FRA 6	JPN DNF	IRL 42	GBR 7
2008	Subaru World Rally Team	Subaru Impreza WRC	MON 3	SWE 21	MEX 2	ARG 2	JOR 3	ITA 6											5	50
		Subaru Impreza WRC							GRE DNF	TUR 13	FIN 3	GER 6	NZL DNF	ESP 7	FRA 6	JPN 4	GBR DNF
2009	Citroën Junior Team	Citroën C4 WRC	IRL 5	NOR															14th	4th
2012	Monster World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RS WRC			MEX DNF														13	28
	Qatar World Rally Team	Citroën DS3 WRC								FIN 39
	WRC Team Mini Portugal	Mini John Cooper Works WRC									GER 5	GBR 11	FRA 8	ITA 6	ESP 7
2013	Abu Dhabi Citroën Total WRT	Citroën DS3 WRC			MEX 6														16	8th
2014	Hyundai World Rally Team	Hyundai i20 WRC			MEX 7	POR	ARG	ITA	POLE	FIN	GER	OFF 10	FRA	ESP	GBR				18th	7th

Web links

Commons : Chris Atkinson  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Chris Atkinson's website
• WRC statistics on juwra.com