Jan Kopecký (rally driver)

Jan Kopecký

Nation:	Czech Republic
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally Germany 2002
Last rally:	Rally Catalonia 2015
Co-driver:	Petr Starý Pavel Dresler
Team:	Motorsport Kopecký Škoda Motorsport
Vehicle:	Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 Škoda Fabia R5
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 34 - - 3
Points:	21st
Status: 13 of 13, 2015 season
Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC)
First rally:	Istanbul Rally 2008
Co-driver:	Petr Starý Pavel Dresler
Team:	Škoda Motorsport
Vehicle:	Škoda Fabia S2000
Rallies: Victories: Podiums: WP 38 7th 23 83
Points:	398
Status: end of 2012 season

Jan Kopecký (born January 28, 1982 in Opočno , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech rally driver .

Career

Jan Kopecký in the Škoda Fabia S2000 at the Rally Bohemia 2009

Jan Kopecký began racing in 1995. He drove in karting until 1999 . In the same year he started at the Fiesta Cup , where he was runner-up in 1999. The following year he won the championship. In 2000 Kopecký won a few races in the Pickup Freestyle and was runner-up in the Octavia Cup . There, too, he won the championship the following year. In 2001 he took part in a rally for the first time and won the national sprint rally championship in the Czech Republic. In 2002 he started with a Toyota Corolla WRC in the Czech rally championship and took part in his first rally world championship run in Rally Germany . In 2003 he finished third in the Czech rally championship with a factory-supported Škoda Octavia WRC and took part in World Championship races in Germany , Wales and the Rally Finland . In 2004 Kopecký won the Czech rally championship with a Škoda Fabia WRC . In 2005 he started again in Germany , on Corsica and in the Rallye Catalonia , where he earned his first world championship point by finishing eighth overall. In 2006 and 2007 he drove two seasons in the World Rally Championship with a Škoda Fabia WRC. Kopecký achieved the best results so far in the World Rally Championship at the 2006 Rally Catalonia and 2007 at the Rally Germany with two fifth places. In the 2008 World Rally Championship he only took part in the Mexico Rally and started in a Peugeot 207 S2000 in four rounds of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC). In the IRC 2009 he finished second with two wins and three second places in the overall ranking. He has been a works driver at Škoda since 2009 and is used in national rallies and in the IRC. In the 2011 season he first achieved four podiums and then two victories in a row at the Barum Czech Rally Zlín and the Mecsek Rally . He finished the season in second place overall.

Jan Kopecký continued his career in the ERC, where he won the championship in 2013 with six wins. Since the 2015 World Rally Championship , it has been used in WRC2 by Škoda with the Fabia R5. At the Rally Italy he finished third in WRC2 and ninth in the overall classification, for which he was awarded two world championship points in the WRC class .

Individual WRC results

year	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
2002	Matador Czech National Team	Toyota Corolla WRC	MON	SWE	FRA	ESP	CYP	ARG	GRE	KEN	FIN	DEU	ITA	NZL	OUT	GBR			0	-
												DNF
2003	Škoda Matador team	Škoda Octavia WRC	MON	SWE	DOOR	NZL	ARG	GRE	CYP	DEU	FIN	OUT	ITA	FRA	ESP	GBR			0	-
										20th						DNF
	Jan Kopecký	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII
											32
2004	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	NZL	CYP	GRE	DOOR	ARG	FIN	DEU	JPN	GBR	ITA	FRA	ESP	OUT	0	-
																	DNF
2005	Jan Kopecký	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII	MON	SWE	MEX	NZL	ITA	CYP	DOOR	GRE	ARG	FIN	DEU	GBR	JPN	FRA	ESP	OUT	1	26th
				37
	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia WRC
													DNF			12	8th
2006	Czech Rally Team Škoda Kopecký	Škoda Fabia WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG	ITA	GRE	DEU	FIN	JPN	CYP	DOOR	OUT	NZL	GBR	7th	15th
			11	13		5	10		17th	16	7th	8th			DNF			10
2007	Czech Rally Team Kopecký	Škoda Fabia WRC	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN	DEU	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRL	GBR	10	12
			8th	10	8th		20th		DNF	7th	DNF	5		DNF	7th			12
2008	Jan Kopecký	Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	JOR	ITA	GRE	DOOR	FIN	DEU	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	GBR		0	-
					DNF
2015	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR				3	25th
								9			13			10

Source:

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ewrc-results.com: WRC , accessed June 28, 2015

Web links

Commons : Jan Kopecký  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Kopecký Motorsport