2007 World Rally Championship

2007 WRC season

World Champion
Driver:	Sébastien Loeb
Manufacturer:	Citroën
Season dates
Number of rallies:	16
<2006 season	2008 season>

The FIA - World Rally Championship in 2007 was in January 19, Monte Carlo started and ended on December 2nd in the UK . A total of 16 world championship races were held on four continents. Sébastien Loeb became world champion for the fourth time in a row with eight individual victories and a total of 116 world championship points. In contrast to the 2006 World Rally Championship , the World Championship races in Cyprus , Turkey and Australia were no longer included in the 2007 World Cup calendar. The replacement was the Rally Norway and the Rally Ireland (for the first time in the calendar) and the Rally Portugal was again taken into account by the FIA after a break of several years .

Teams and drivers

The Citroën Total World Rally Team came, after a break in 2006 as a works team for the first time with the new Citroën C4 WRC on. For Citroën, Sébastien Loeb started with co-driver Daniel Elena and Daniel Sordo with co-driver Marc Martí.

The Ford World Rally Team used a Finnish driver duo. Marcus Grönholm with Timo Rautiainen and Mikko Hirvonen with Jarmo Lehtinen started in the Ford Focus RS WRC .

For the Subaru World Rally Team , the Norwegian Petter Solberg started with his co-driver Phil Mills, the Australian Chris Atkinson with Glenn MacNeall and the Spaniard Xavier Pons with his co-driver Xavier Amigo in the Subaru Impreza .

The Munchi's Ford World Rally Team competed with Argentinian drivers. Luís Pérez Companc with José Maria Volta and Juan Pablo Raies with Jorge Pérez Companc started in the Ford Focus RS WRC .

Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally fielded three Ford Focus RS WRCs . The Norwegian Henning Solberg drove with Cato Menkerud, the Finn Jari-Matti Latvala with Miikka Anttila and the Briton Matthew Wilson with Michael Orr.

The Austrian duo Manfred Stohl with co-driver Ilka Minor and the Swede Daniel Carlsson with Denis Giraudet drove for the OMV Kronos Citroën World Rally Team in the Citroën Xsara WRC .

Toni Gardemeister from Finland and Jakke Honkanen competed in a Mitsubishi Lancer for the Mitsubishi MSP team.

vehicles

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  Ford Focus WRC

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  Citroën C4 WRC

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  Citroën Xsara WRC

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  Suzuki SX4 WRC

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  Subaru Impreza WRC

Teams and drivers

team	brand	automobile	No	driver	Co-driver	Rallies
Citroën Total World Rally Team	Citroën	Citroën C4 WRC	1	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	All
			2	Daniel Sordo	Marc Martí	All
Ford World Rally Team	ford	Ford Focus RS WRC	3	Marcus Grönholm	Timo Rautiainen	All
			4th	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	All
			17th	Khalid Al Qassimi	Nicky Beech	9-10, 12, 15
OMV Kronos Citroën World Rally Team	Citroën	Citroën Xsara WRC	5	Manfred Stohl	Ilka Minor	All
			6th	Daniel Carlsson	Denis Giraudet	2-3, 5, 7-8
				François Duval	Patrick Pivato	10, 12-13
Subaru World Rally Team	Subaru	Subaru Impreza	7th	Petter Solberg	Phil Mills	All
			8th	Chris Atkinson	Glenn MacNeall	1-5
					Stéphane Prévot	6-16
			17th	Xavier Pons	Xavier Amigo	9-16
Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team	ford	Ford Focus RS WRC	9	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	All
			10	Henning Solberg	Cato Menkelud	All
			16	Matthew Wilson	Michael Orr	All
			18th	Alessandro Bettega	Simone Scattolin	13
			23	Eamonn Boland	Francis Regan	15th
		Ford Focus RS WRC	22nd	Gareth Jones	James O'Brien	9
					David Moynihan	12, 15-16
			27	Andreas Mikkelsen	Ola Floene	3, 5
			29	Ray Breen	Andrew Purcell	15th
Munchi's Ford World Rally Team	ford	Ford Focus RS WRC	11	Luís Pérez Companc	Jose Maria Volta	2, 4-9, 11-12, 14, 16
			12	Juan Pablo Raies	Jorge Pérez Companc	2, 4-6
				Federico Villagra		7-9, 11-12, 14, 16
Suzuki World Rally Team	Suzuki	Suzuki SX4	19th	Nicolas Bernardi	Jean-Marc Fortin	13
				Sebastian Lindholm	Tomi Tuominen	16
Teams without notification of manufacturer points
MMSP LTD	Mitsubishi	Mitsubishi Lancer	14th	Toni Gardemeister	Jakke Honkanen	1-3, 5, 7-8
			15th	Juho Hanninen	Mikko Markkula	3, 7, 9
				Urmo Aava	Kuldar Sikk	8-9, 11
			18th	Kristian Sohlberg	Risto Pietilainen	9
			20th	Xavier Pons	Xavier Amigo	1-3, 5
			22nd	Armindo Araujo	Miguel Ramalho	4th
			27	Kaj Kuistila	Kari Jokinen	9
Astra Racing	Citroën	Citroën Xsara WRC	14th	Toni Gardemeister	Jakke Honkanen	10
François Duval	Citroën	Citroën Xsara WRC	15th	François Duval	Patrick Pivato	15th
Ramsport	ford	Ford Focus RS WRC	17th	Guy Wilks	Phil Pugh	3, 5, 8-10
		Ford Focus RS WRC	21st	Andreas Mikkelsen	Ola Floene	9-10, 12-13, 15-16
First Motorsport Škoda	Škoda	Škoda Fabia	17th	François Duval	Patrick Pivato	8th
Czech Rally Team Kopecký	Škoda	Škoda Fabia WRC	18th	Jan Kopecký	Filip Schovánek	1-3, 5, 7-10, 12-13, 16
Guy Wilks	Subaru	Subaru Impreza WRC	18th	Guy Wilks	Phil Pugh	15th
Kris Meeke	Subaru	Subaru Impreza WRC	19th	Kris Meeke	Paul Nagle	15th
Adapta World Rally Team	Subaru	Subaru Impreza WRC	20th	Mads Østberg	Ole Kristian Unnelud	2-3, 5, 7, 9, 16
Team rally Cuoq	Peugeot	Peugeot 307 WRC	21st	Jean-Marie Cuoq	David Marty	1
Rally Team Olsbergs	Subaru	Subaru Impreza WRC	23	Patrik Flodin	Maria Andersson	2
PH sports	Citroën	Citroën Xsara WRC	24	Conrad Rautenbach	David Sr.	16
Aimont Racing Team	Citroën	Citroën Xsara WRC	25th	Gianluigi Galli	Giovanni Bernacchini	2-3, 5-7
Van Merksteijn Motorsport	ford	Ford Focus RS WRC	25th	Peter van Merksteijn sr	Erwin Berkhof	10, 12
					Hilco Van Beek	16
Bozian Racing	Peugeot	Peugeot 307 WRC	61	Philippe Roux	Eric Jordan	1
				Not so with Kjaer	Trond Odegard	3

Competitions

The kilometers entered correspond to the distance of the special stages. The distance between the connecting routes between the individual WPs is not included.

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rally	rank	driver	vehicle	total time	Number of WP	length	Started	in the target
Rally Monte Carlo 19. – 21. January 2007 → Main article : Rallye Monte Carlo 2007	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 10: 27.4	18th	328.54 km	47	39
	2.	Daniel Sordo	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 38.2
	3.	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	+1: 22.8
Rally Sweden 9-11 February 2007 → Main article : Rally Sweden 2007	1.	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 08: 40.7	20th	342.09 km	58	43
	2.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 53.8
	3.	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	+1: 41.5
Rally Norway 16.-18. February 2007 → Main article : Rally Norway 2007	1.	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 28: 17.0	18th	355.99 km	74	36
	2.	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	+ 0: 09.5
	3.	Henning Solberg	Ford Focus RS WRC	+ 3: 44.6
Rally Mexico 9-11 March 2007 → Main article : Rally Mexico 2007	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 48: 13.3	20th	366.06 km	47	36
	2.	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	+ 0: 55.8
	3.	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	+1: 27.7
Rally Portugal March 29th – 1st April 2007 → Main article : Rally Portugal 2007	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 53: 33.1	18th	357.10 km	80	61
	2.	Petter Solberg	Subaru Impreza WRC	+ 3: 13.9
	3.	Daniel Sordo	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 5: 05.3
Rally Argentina 4th-6th May 2007 → Main article : Rally Argentina 2007	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	2: 52: 03.8	23 7 canceled	371.00 km 248.93 km	70	41
	2.	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	+ 0: 36.7
	3.	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	+ 2: 15.2
Rally Sardinia 18. – 20. May 2007 → Main article : Rally Sardinia 2007	1.	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 48: 42.0	18th	342.86 km	82	67
	2.	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	+ 0: 29.2
	3.	Daniel Sordo	Citroën C4 WRC	+1: 21.8
Rally Greece 1st – 3rd June 2007 → Main article : Rally Greece 2007	1.	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 49: 22.6	121	334.44 km	64	49
	2.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 38.6
	3.	Petter Solberg	Subaru Impreza WRC	+1: 34.1
Rally Finland 3rd – 5th August 2007 → Main article : Rally Finland 2007	1.	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	2: 57: 26.1	23	360.34 km	97	70
	2.	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	+ 0: 24.2
	3.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	+1: 09.0
Rally Germany 17. – 19. August 2007 → Main article : Rallye Deutschland 2007	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 27: 27.5	19th	356.24 km	102	88
	2.	François Duval	Citroën Xsara WRC	+ 0: 20.3
	3.	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	+1: 19.1
Rally New Zealand August 31–2. September 2007 → Main article : Rally New Zealand 2007	1.	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 52: 53.9	18th	353.56 km	68	59
	2.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 00.3
	3.	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	+1: 42.8
Rally Catalonia 5th - 7th October 2007 → Main article : Rally Catalonia 2007	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 07: 06.2	18th	352.87 km	81	65
	2.	Daniel Sordo	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 13.8
	3.	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	+ 0: 44.2
Rally Corsica 12-14. October 2007 → Main article : Rally Corsica 2007	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 28: 31.5	16	359.32 km	74	60
	2.	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	+ 0: 23.7
	3.	Daniel Sordo	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 44.3
Rally Japan 26.-28. October 2007 → Main article : Rally Japan 2007	1.	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 23: 57.6	27	350.19 km	88	72
	2.	Daniel Sordo	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 37.4
	3.	Henning Solberg	Ford Focus RS WRC	+ 4: 33.7
Rally Ireland 16.-18. November 2007 → Main article : Rally Ireland 2007	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 01: 29.2	20th	328.72 km	84	66
	2.	Daniel Sordo	Citroën C4 WRC	+1: 03.4
	3.	Jari-Matti Latvala	Ford Focus RS WRC	+1: 58.2
Rally Great Britain November 30th – 2nd December 2007 → Main article : Rally Great Britain 2007	1.	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 22: 50.9	17th	359.54 km	84	66
	2.	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	+ 0: 15.2
	3.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	+1: 33.0

Overall rating

WRC drivers' championship

Distribution of points
rank	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
Points	10	8th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1

rank	driver	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN	DEU	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRL	GBR	Points
01	Sébastien Loeb	1	2	14th	1	1	1	DNF	2	3	1	2	1	1	DNF	1	3	116
02	Marcus Grönholm	3	1	2	2	4th	2	1	1	1	4th	1	3	2	DNF	DNF	2	112
03	Mikko Hirvonen	5	3	1	3	5	3	2	4th	2	3	3	4th	13	1	4th	1	99
04th	Daniel Sordo	2	12	25th	4th	3	6th	3	24	DNF	DNF	6th	2	3	2	2	5	65
05	Petter Solberg	6th	DNF	4th	DNF	2	DNF	5	3	DNF	6th	7th	6th	5	DNF	5	4th	47
06th	Henning Solberg	14th	4th	3	9	11	5	4th	5	5	13	9	10	9	3	16	15th	34
07th	Chris Atkinson	4th	8th	19th	5	DNF	7th	10	6th	4th	15th	4th	8th	6th	DNF	42	7th	31
08th	Jari-Matti Latvala	DNF	DNF	5	7th	8th	4th	9	12	DNF	8th	5	7th	4th	26th	3	10	30th
09	Manfred Stohl	10	7th	12	6th	10	8th	7th	8th	DNF	DNF	12	DNF	14th	6th	DNF	8th	13
10	François Duval								DNF		2		5	DNF		DNS		12
11	Matthew Wilson	12	DNF	26th	8th	12	30th	12	10	10	9	10	11	DNF	4th	7th	6th	11
12	Jan Kopecký	8th	10	8th		22nd		DNF	7th	DNF	5		DNF	7th			12	10
13	Toni Gardemeister	7th	6th	DNF		DSQ		6th	DNS		7th							10
14th	Daniel Carlsson		5	7th		6th		DNF	DNS									9
15th	Gianluigi Galli		13	6th		7th	DNS	DNS										5
16	Luís Pérez Companc		15th		19th	DNS	28	DNF	11	11		23	DNF		5		DNF	4th
17th	Xavier Pons	25th	DNF	16	DNS					6th	18th	DNF	9	8th	36	DNF	9	4th
18th	Guy Wilks			DNF		DNF			9	9	10					6th	13	3
19th	Urmo Aava			28		15th		13	14th	7th	12	8th	18th	DNF	18th			3
20th	Federico Villagra						9	11	32	14th		11	13		7th		18th	2
21st	Mads Østberg		9	37		DNF		DNF		8th							11	1
22nd	Gareth MacHale	11			DNF	13		DNF								8th		1
23	Juho Hänninen		DSQ	17th			11	8th	DNF	DNF		19th	23		24			1
24	Katsuhiko Taguchi														8th
rank	driver	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN	DEU	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRL	GBR	Points

Manufacturers' championship WRC

rank	team	No.	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRC	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRL	GBR	Points
1	Ford World Rally Team	3	3	1	2	2	4th	2	1	1	1	4th	1	3	2	DNF	DNF	2	212
		4th	5	3	1	3	5	3	2	4th	2	3	3	4th	8th	1	4th	1
2	Citroën Total World Rally Team	1	1	2	8th	1	1	1	DNF	2	3	1	2	1	1	DNF	1	3	183
		2	2	8th	10	4th	3	6th	3	10	DNF	DNF	6th	2	3	2	2	5
3	Subaru World Rally Team	7th	6th	DNF	4th	DNF	2	DNF	5	3	DNF	5	7th	6th	5	7th	5	4th	87
		8th	4th	7th	9	5	DNF	7th	8th	6th	4th	8th	4th	8th	6th	DNF	7th	6th
4th	Stobart VK M-Sport Ford	9	DNF	DNF	5	7th	7th	4th	7th	9	DNF	6th	5	7th	4th	8th	3	8th	81
		10	8th	4th	3	8th	9	5	4th	5	5	7th	8th	9	7th	3	6th	9
5	OMV Kronos	5	7th	6th	7th	6th	8th	8th	6th	7th	DNF	DNF	10	DNF	9	5	DNF	7th	45
		6th		5	6th		6th		DNF			2		5	DNF
6th	Munchi's Ford World Rally Team	11		9		10		10	DNF	8th	6th		11	DNF		4th		DNF	14th
		12		DNF		9		9	9	11	7th		9	10		6th		10
rank	team	No.	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRC	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRL	GBR	Points

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ewrc-results.com: Season 2007 , February 8, 2015

Web links

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