Craig Breen

Craig Breen

Nation:	Ireland
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally Portugal 2009
Last rally:	Rally Sweden 2016
Co-driver:	Scott Martin Gareth Roberts Paul Nagle
Team:	Abu Dhabi Total WRT Sainteloc Junior Team
Vehicle:	Citroën DS3 WRC Ford Fiesta R5
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 32 - - -
Points:	14th
Status: After Rally 3 of 14, 2016 season

Craig Breen (born February 2, 1990 in Waterford ) is a rally driver from Ireland .

Career

Craig Breen started his karting career in Ireland in 1999. He got into rallying in 2007 and also drove the national kart championship.

From 2009, Breen concentrated entirely on rallying. He competed in the Irish, British and international Fiesta Sport Trophies . He won all three championships. He then received a contract with M-Sport , which secured him starts in the national junior series. In the same year he started in the WRC with a Ford Fiesta ST and a Ford Fiesta R2 .

In 2010, Breen debuted in a Ford Fiesta S2000 in the British Rally Championship and Irish Tarmac Rally Championship . He won the Ulster International Rally and was second overall in the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship . Breen drove the rallies in Turkey , Finland and Great Britain , where he finished second in the SWRC class.

For 2012, Breen had registered again for the SWRC class. With a Ford Fiesta S2000 he won the Monte Carlo Rally , Great Britain and Spain , he won the championship with 118 points. The low point in Craig Breen's career followed at the Targa Florio Rally in Sicily , the fifth round of the 2012 Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC). Co-driver Gareth Roberts succumbed to serious injuries after a violent accident in a guardrail.

In 2013, Breen and co-driver Paul Nagle signed with Peugeot. As members of the Peugeot Rally Academy , the duo achieved five podiums and they were third in the ERC at the end of the season . Paul Nagle then became Andreas Mikkelsen's co-driver . In the following year, Breen came third in the ERC championship, and in 2015 he finished second.

At the same time, he drove in the WRC2 in 2015 . Breen showed his talent with a second place in the Monte Carlo Rally and a third place in Great Britain . In 2014 and 2015, Scott Martin was the majority in the front passenger seat.

In addition to Kris Meeke , Stéphane Lefebvre and Khalid Al Qassimi , Craig Breen is also registered for the Abu Dhabi Total WR Team ( Citroën DS3 WRC ). The drivers named take turns to contest world championship races in the top rally class WRC in 2016 .

Individual results WRC

WRC

year	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	Points	rank
2009	Cragig Breen	Ford Fiesta ST	IRL	NOR	CYP	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	POLE	FIN	OUT	ESP	GBR			0	-
						25th					26th
		Ford Fiesta R2
													39	36
2010	Ford Team Türkiye	Ford Fiesta	SWE	MEX	JOR	DOOR	NZL	POR	BUL	FIN	DEU	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR		0	-
						22nd
	Ford Fiesta S2000
										19th
	Ford Fiesta S2000	Barwa Rally Team
															12
2011	Craig Breen	Ford Fiesta S2000	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA	ARG	GRE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR		0	-
			15th
	PS engineering
														15th
2012	Craig Breen	Ford Fiesta S2000	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	DEU	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP		8th	17th
			14th	16		DNF				DNF		13	17th		6th
2014	Craig Breen	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR		2	25th
				9						DNF
2015	Sainteloc Junior Team	Peugeot 208 T16	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR		0	-
			13				DNF			DNF	18th		17th	DNF	13
2016	Abu Dhabi Total WRT	Citroën DS3 WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	CHN	FRA	ESP	GBR	OUT	10	36
				8th					7th	3			5	10	DNF
2017	Citroën WRT	Citroën DS3 WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	ESP	GBR	OUT		64	9
			5
		Citroën C3 WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	ESP	GBR	OUT
				5		5	DNF	5	25th	11	5	5		15th	DNF
2018	Citroën WRT	Citroën C3 WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA	FIN	DEU	DOOR	GBR	ESP	OUT		67	11
			9	2			DNF	7th	6th	8th	7th	DNF	4th	9	7th
2019	Hyundai WRT	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	CHL	POR	ITA	FIN	DEU	DOOR	GBR	ESP	OUT	10	14th
											7th			8th		C.
2020	Hyundai WRT	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	EST	DOOR	DEU	ITA	JPN							6th	11
				7th

WRC2

year	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	Points	rank
2015	Sainteloc Junior Team	Peugeot 208 T16	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR		58	8th
			2				DNF			DNF	5		4th	DNF	3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ wrc.com: Driver profile , accessed on January 9, 2016
2. ↑ motorsport-total.com: Gareth Roberts fatally injured , accessed on January 9, 2016
3. ↑ ewrc-results.com: Craig Breen , accessed January 9, 2016

Web links

Commons : Craig Breen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)