World Rally Championship 2010

2010 WRC season

World Champion
Driver:	Sébastien Loeb
Manufacturer:	Citroën
Season dates
Number of rallies:	13
<2009 season	2011 season>

The FIA - World Rally Championship in 2010 was in February 12, Sweden started and ended on 14 October in the UK . A total of 13 world championship races were held on three continents. Sébastien Loeb and co-driver Daniel Elena in a Citroën C4 WRC were able to set a point gap on the competition that could not be made up early with their victory in the Rally France and thus win the drivers' world championship. The Citroën Total World Rally Team won the sixth title this season since 2003 , in the Manufacturers' World Championship .

vehicles

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  Citroën C4 WRC

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  Ford Fiesta RS WRC

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  Ford Focus RS WRC

Teams and drivers

team	brand	Model	No	driver	Co-driver	Rallies
Factory teams and private teams registered for manufacturer points
Citroën Total World Rally Team	Citroën	Citroën C4 WRC	1	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	All
			2	Dani Sordo	Marc Martí	1-7
					Diego Vallejo	9, 11-12
				Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	8, 10, 13
Ford World Rally Team	ford	Ford Focus RS WRC	3	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	All
			4th	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	All
		Ford Focus RS WRC	12	Khalid Al Qassimi	Michael Orr	1, 3, 6, 8-13
Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team			5	Marcus Grönholm	Timo Rautiainen	1
				Matthew Wilson	Scott Martin	2-13
			6th	Henning Solberg	Ilka Minor	1-6, 8, 10
					Stéphane Prévot	13
				Per-Gunnar Andersson	Jonas Andersson	7th
				François Duval	Denis Giraudet	9
			12	Matthew Wilson	Scott Martin	1
				Juha Kankkunen	Juha Repo	8th
			15th	Liu Chao Dong	Anthony McLoughlin	13
			17th	Mattias Therman	Janne Perala	1, 8
			43	Ken Block	Alex Gelsomino	11-12
		Ford Fiesta S2000	16	Xavier Pons	Alex Haro	12
			17th	Henning Solberg	Ilka Minor	7, 9
					Stéphane Prévot	11-12
			18th	Mads Østberg	Jonas Andersson	8, 11
			61	Dennis Kuipers	Frédéric Miclotte	4, 6-9, 11-13
Citroën Junior Team	Citroën	Citroën C4 WRC	7th	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	1-7, 9, 11-12
				Dani Sordo	Marc Martí	8th
					Diego Vallejo	10, 13
			8th	Kimi Raikkonen	Kaj Lindström	1-4, 6-13
Munchi's Ford World Rally Team	ford	Ford Focus RS WRC	9	Federico Villagra	Jorge Pérez Companc	2-3, 5-6, 10
					José Díaz	4, 12
					Diego Curletto	11
Teams without notification of manufacturer points
Petter Solberg World Rally Team	Citroën	Citroën C4 WRC	11	Petter Solberg	Phil Mills	1-6
					Chris Patterson	7-13
		Citroën Xsara WRC	68	Yvan Muller	Gilles Mondesir	11
Adapta World Rally Team	Subaru	Subaru Impreza WRC	14th	Mads Østberg	Jonas Andersson	1, 6, 8, 13
Synergon Turan Motorsport	Peugeot	Peugeot 307 WRC	15th	Frigyes Turán	Gábor Zsiros	6-7, 11
	ford	Ford Focus RS WRC				12
Monster World Rally Team	ford	Ford Focus RS WRC	43	Ken Block	Alex Gelsomino	2, 4, 6, 9, 13
Van Merksteijn Motorsport	ford	Ford Focus WRC	16	Bernhard ten Brinke	Eddy Chevaillier	9
			63	Peter van Merksteijn jr		1
			65	Peter van Merksteijn sr	Erwin Mombearts	1
FERM Power Tools World Rally Team	Subaru	Subaru Impreza WRC	63	René Kuipers	Erwin Berkhof	1, 9
	ford	Ford Focus WRC				6, 13
			64	Dennis Kuipers	Frédéric Miclotte	1

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.

colour Underground gold gravel silver asphalt blue Ice / snow bronze Mixed

rally	rank	driver	vehicle	total time	Number of WP	length	Started	in the target
Rally Sweden 12-14 February 2010 → Main article : Rally Sweden 2010	1.	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 09: 30.4	21st	345.15 km	55	43
	2.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 42.3
	3.	Jari-Matti Latvala	Ford Focus RS WRC	+1: 15.4
Rally Mexico 5-7 March 2010 → Main article : Rally Mexico 2010	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 42: 41.7	22nd	354.6 km	30th	25th
	2.	Petter Solberg	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 24.2
	3.	Sébastien Ogier	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 25.3
Rally Jordan 1st – 3rd April 2010 → Main article : Rally Jordan 2010	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 51: 35.9	21st	339.48 km	33	27
	2:	Jari-Matti Latvala	Ford Focus RS WRC	+ 0: 35.8
	3.	Petter Solberg	Citroën C4 WRC	+1: 11.8
Rally Turkey 16.-18. April 2010 → Main article : Rally Turkey 2010	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 01: 38.7	23 2 canceled	356.64 km 318.57 km	40	32
	2.	Petter Solberg	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 54.5
	3.	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	+1: 43.4
Rally New Zealand 7th – 9th May 2010 → Main article : Rally New Zealand 2010	1.	Jari-Matti Latvala	Ford Focus RS WRC	4: 04: 09.8	21st	396.5 km	53	38
	2.	Sébastien Ogier	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 02.4
	3.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 15.2
Rally Portugal 28-30 May 2010 → Main article : Rally Portugal 2010	1.	Sébastien Ogier	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 51: 16.1	18th	355.32 km	74	52
	2.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 07.9
	3.	Daniel Sordo	Citroën C4 WRC	+1: 17.6
Rally Bulgaria 9-11 July 2010 → Main article : Rally Bulgaria 2010	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 02: 39.2	14th	354.31 km	40	28
	2.	Daniel Sordo	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 29.5
	3.	Petter Solberg	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 36.3
Rally Finland 29–31 July 2010 → Main article : Rally Finland 2010	1.	Jari-Matti Latvala	Ford Focus RS WRC	2: 31: 29.6	19th	310.29 km	99	61
	2.	Sébastien Ogier	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 10.1
	3.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 26.0
Rally Germany 20. – 22. August 2010 → Main article : Rally Germany 2010	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 59: 38.3	19th	407.25 km	77	55
	2.	Daniel Sordo	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 51.3
	3.	Sébastien Ogier	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 2: 13.3
Rally Japan 10-12 September 2010 → Main article : Rally Japan 2010	1.	Sébastien Ogier	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 10: 26.4	26th	303.54 km	70	54
	2.	Petter Solberg	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 15.7
	3.	Jari-Matti Latvala	Ford Focus RS WRC 09	+ 0: 26.0
Rally France September 30th – 3rd October 2010 → Main article : Rally France 2010	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 05: 49.3	20th	351.8 km	66	49
	2.	Daniel Sordo	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 35.7
	3.	Petter Solberg	Citroën C4 WRC	+1: 16.8
Rally Spain 22.-24. October 2010 → Main article : Rally Spain 2010	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 32: 59.7	16	355.3 km	45	36
	2.	Petter Solberg	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 35.3
	3.	Daniel Sordo	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 41.1
Rally Great Britain 11.-14. November 2010 → Main article : Rally Great Britain 2010	1.	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 14: 54.0	20th	359.44 km	60	45
	2.	Petter Solberg	Citroën C4 WRC	+ 0: 19.1
	3.	Jari-Matti Latvala	Ford Focus RS WRC	+1: 35.3

Overall rating

WRC drivers' championship

rank	driver	SWE	MEX	JOR	DOOR	NZL	POR	BUL	FIN	GER	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR	Points
01	Sébastien Loeb	2	1	1	1	3	2	1	3	1	5	1	1	1	276
02	Jari-Matti Latvala	3	5	2	8th	1	DNF	6th	1	4th	3	4th	4th	3	171
03	Petter Solberg	9	2	3	2	DNF	5	3	4th	5	2	3	2	2	169
04th	Sébastien Ogier	5	3	6th	4th	2	1	4th	2	3	1	6th	10	DNF	167
05	Dani Sordo	4th	14th	4th	DNF	5	3	2	5	2	4th	2	3	5	150
06th	Mikko Hirvonen	1	4th	20th	3	4th	4th	5	DNF	DNF	6th	5	5	4th	126
07th	Matthew Wilson	7th	16	5	7th	6th	6th	9	6th	6th	22nd	8th	6th	7th	74
08th	Henning Solberg	6th	6th	9	25th	7th	DNF	10	DNF	37	7th	9	8th	6th	45
09	Federico Villagra		7th	7th	6th	9	8th				8th	7th	15th		36
10	Kimi Raikkonen	29	DNF	8th	5		10	11	25th	7th	DNF	DNF	DNS	8th	25th
11	Mads Østberg	8th					7th		7th	16		41		9	18th
12	Khalid Al Qassimi	13		DNS			9		DNF	8th	DNF	13	7th	11	12
13	Per-Gunnar Andersson	10		16			16	7th	10	13					8th
14th	Jari Ketomaa			25th		8th	11		DNF		9	11		DNF	6th
15th	Xavier Pons		8th	10		10	12			15th		15th	DNS	13	6th
16	Frigyes Turán						23	8th				DNF	DNF		4th
17th	Juha Kankkunen								8th						4th
18th	Martin Prokop	14th	9			11			13	11	10	21st			3
19th	Dennis Kuipers	37			9		19th	13	DNF	24		17th	11	16	2
20th	Ken Block		18th		24		DNF			DNF		12	9	21st	2
21st	Juho Hänninen						DNF		9						2
22nd	Mark van Eldik									9					2
23	Patrik Sandell	15th		23		12			11	10		10		14th	2
24	Andreas Mikkelsen	11										18th		10	1
25th	Armindo Araújo	23	10	12			14th			18th		16		18th	1
26th	Aaron Burkart				10		32			26th		36	26th		1
rank	driver	SWE	MEX	JOR	DOOR	NZL	POR	BUL	FIN	GER	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR	Points

Manufacturers' championship WRC

rank	team	No.	SWE	MEX	JOR	DOOR	NZL	POR	BUL	FIN	GER	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR	Points
1	Citroën Total World Rally Team	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	1	3	1	4th	1	1	1	456
		2	4th	7th	3	DNF	4th	3	2	2	2	1	2	2	DNF
2	BP Ford World Rally Team	3	1	3	9	2	3	4th	4th	DNF	DNF	5	4th	4th	3	337
		4th	3	4th	2	7th	1	DNF	5	1	4th	2	3	3	2
3	Citroën Junior Team	7th	5	2	5	3		1	3	4th	3	3	5	7th	4th	217
		8th	8th	DNF	7th	4th		7th	8th	6th	6th	DNF	DNF	DNF	7th
4th	Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team	5	7th	8th	4th	6th	5	5	7th	5	5	7th	7th	5	6th	176
		6th	6th	5	8th	8th	6th	DNF	6th	DNF	DNF	6th			5
		43											8th	6th
5	Munchi's Ford World Rally Team	9		6th	6th	5	7th	6th					6th	8th		58
rank	team	No.	SWE	MEX	JOR	DOOR	NZL	POR	BUL	FIN	GER	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR	Points

Driver ranking SWRC

rank	driver	SWE	MEX	NZL	POR	FIN	GER	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR	Points
01	Xavier Pons		1	1	2	2		5		4th	3	123
02	Patrik Sandell	4th		5	4th		3	1		1	4th	111
03	Martin Prokop	3	2		3		4th	2	2	6th		104
04th	Jari Ketomaa			6th	1	1	DNF		1	2	DNF	101
05	Michał Kościuszko		3	DNF		3	5	6th		3	5	73
06th	Eyvind Brynildsen	5	4th	2		9		4th		5	DNF	64
07th	Nasser Al-Attiyah		DNF	4th	5	7th	7th					34
08th	Bernardo Sousa	6th		EX		4th		7th	DNF	7th	DNF	32
09	Per-Gunnar Andersson	1		3		5	2	3				25th
10	Juho Hänninen						1					25th
11	Andreas Mikkelsen										1	25th
12	Craig Breen										2	18th
13	Albert Llovera		5		DNF	10	DNF	8th		9		17th
14th	Vitor Pascoal					6th						8th
15th	Per-Arne Sääv	7th										6th
16	Julien Maurin									8th		4th
17th	Janne Tuohino *	2		DNF	DNF	8th	6th					0
rank	driver	SWE	MEX	NZL	POR	FIN	GER	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR	Points

• Janne Tuohino was unable to drive all of the World Championship races reported to the FIA due to a lack of budget . All points were withdrawn from him.

Driver ranking PWRC

rank	driver	SWE	MEX	JOR	NZL	FIN	GER	JPN	FRA	GBR	Points
01	Armindo Araújo	3	1	2			1		1	2	126
02	Patrik Flodin	1		1		DNF	3	1		5	100
03	Hayden Paddon				1	3	2	2	7th	3	97
04th	Ott Tanak					1	5		2	1	78
05	Toshi Arai		2		4th		6th	DNF	3	9	55
06th	Gianluca Linari	7th	5		5			3	DNF	DNF	41
07th	Not Grøndal	2				4th			5	13	40
08th	Rui Wang			6th	DNF	8th		5	6th	DNF	30th
09	Alex Raschi					5	DNF		4th	8th	26th
10	Nicholai Georgiou			3	DNF	10	7th		9	11	24
11	Reijo Muhonen	6th		DNF		7th	DNF	6th		10	23
12	Paulo Nobre	8th		7th	6th	DNF		DNF		14th	18th
13	Emma Gilmour				2						18th
14th	Jukka Ketomäki					2					18th
15th	Martin Semerád	5		DNF		6th	DNS			DNF	18th
16	Kingsley Thompson				3						15th
17th	Fabio Frisiero	4th			DNS				DNF		12
18th	Benito Guerra		4th								12
19th	Spyros Pavlides			4th							12
20th	Hermann Gassner Jr						4th				12
21st	Kyosuke Kamata							4th			12
22nd	Jason Pritchard									4th	12
23	Amjad Farrah			5							10
24	Michel Jourdain Jr				DNF	11	DNF	DNF	8th	7th	10
25th	Dave Weston Jr								DNF	6th	8th
26th	Peter Horsey					9	8th		DNF	12	6th
27	Nuno Barroso Pereira					DNF	9		DNF		2
rank	driver	SWE	MEX	JOR	NZL	FIN	GER	JPN	FRA	GBR	Points

Driver ranking JWRC

rank	driver	DOOR	POR	BUL	GER	FRA	ESP	Points
01	Aaron Burkart	1	3		2	5	4th	80
02	Hans Weijs Jr		DNF	2	1	2	3	76
03	Todor Slavov	4th		3	7th	6th	2	59
04th	Karl Kruuda	6th	2	5	3			51
05	Kevin Abbring	3	1	7th	DNF	DNF		46
06th	Yeray Lemes Macias		4th	EX	6th	DNF	1	45
07th	Thierry Neuville	DNF	DNF	1	DNF	3		40
08th	Harry Hunt	5	6th	DNF		7th	5	34
09	Alessandro Broccoli	2	DNF	4th		DNF	DNF	30th
10	Jérémi Ancian					1		25th
11	Mathieu Arzeno		DNF	8th	DNF	4th	DNF	16
12	Christian Riedemann				4th			12
13	Martin Kangur						6th	8th
rank	driver	DOOR	POR	BUL	GER	FRA	ESP	Points

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ewrc-results.com: Season 2010 , February 8, 2015

Web links

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