Rally Argentina 2019

 Rally Argentina 2019

Racing data
5th of 14 rounds of the 2019 World Rally Championship
Surname:	Rally Argentina
Date:	25.-28. April 2019
Begin:	Villa Carlos Paz , Cordoba
Exams:	18 tests over 347.50 km
Distance:	952.88 km
Covering:	gravel
Podium
First:	Thierry Neuville Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC
Second:	Andreas Mikkelsen Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC
Third:	Sébastien Ogier Citroën C3 WRC

The 39th Rally Argentina was the fifth round of the FIA - World Rally Championship 2019 . It lasted from April 25th to 28th, 2019. A total of 18 special stages were planned on gravel, the third special stage had to be canceled due to heavy rain.

report

The Argentina Rally, which was characterized by heavy rainfall, caused problems for many drivers. Thierry Neuville (Hyundai), however, got through the three days without any damage. After taking the lead in the eighth special stage, the Belgian drove confidently to victory.

Neuville's pursuers were led by Andreas Mikkelsen , who achieved a Hyundai double success with second place and was able to climb onto the podium for the first time since the 2018 Rally Sweden.

Third place went to Sébastien Ogier (Citroën), after narrowly beating Kris Meeke (Toyota) despite the power steering damage. Meeke got a time penalty of 10 seconds because he had left the prescribed route in SS11. In the overall standings, the Briton temporarily dropped from third to fifth place due to the time penalty.

For Elfyn Evans (Ford), the journey was over on the tenth special stage. In a long right curve, the Welshman caught a rock on the inside. This levered out the Fiesta WRC, which then overturned. Evans and co-driver Scott Martin survived the accident unharmed.

Ott Tänaks (Toyota) stopped in the 14th SS after about ten kilometers due to a technical defect. At this point the Estonian was Neuville's first pursuer, eleven seconds behind. Even with a restart on Sunday, only points in the power stage would have been realistic for Tänak due to the 14 penalty minutes due for the two unfinished special stages on Saturday.

On Sunday there were three special stages over a total distance of 53.16 kilometers on the program. With "Mina Clavero" and twice "El Condor" , which was also the power stage , the teams expected two classic stages of the Rally Argentina. In the morning crossing, which counted as SS16, Meeke was initially the fastest and thus made up for part of his penalty time. On the subsequent SS17, Neuville extended his lead over Mikkelsen with the fastest time before the rally came to an end with the Powerstage, the second "El Condor" crossing. Ogier drove the fastest time and thus secured the five bonus points. He also fended off the final attack by Meeke, who was fourth, 1.4 seconds behind Ogier. But Ogier couldn't shake Hyundai's double success. The Citroën driver was 16 seconds short of second placed Mikkelsen.

Registration list

No	driver	Co-driver	automobile	class
1	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën C3 WRC	WRC RC1
3	Teemu Suninen	Marko salt mines	Ford Fiesta WRC	WRC RC1
4th	Esapekka Lappi	Janne Ferm	Citroën C3 WRC	WRC RC1
5	Kris Meeke	Sebastian Marshall	Toyota Yaris WRC	WRC RC1
6th	Dani Sordo	Carlos del Barrio	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	WRC RC1
8th	Ott Tanak	Martin Järveoja	Toyota Yaris WRC	WRC RC1
10	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Toyota Yaris WRC	WRC RC1
11	Thierry Neuville	Nicolas Gilsoul	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	WRC RC1
33	Elfyn Evans	Scott Martin	Ford Fiesta WRC	WRC RC1
89	Andreas Mikkelsen	Jæger is different	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	WRC RC1
41	Benito Guerra	Jaime Zapata Ortega	Škoda Fabia R5	WRC2 RC2
45	Pedro Heller	Marc Marti	Ford Fiesta R5	WRC2 RC2
42	Paulo Nobre	Gabriel Morales	Škoda Fabia R5	WRC2 RC2

A total of 25 vehicles were reported.

Classifications

Bottom line

rank	driver	Co-driver	automobile	time	Residue	Points + Power Stage
WRC
01	Thierry Neuville	Nicolas Gilsoul	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	3: 20: 54.6		25 + 3
02	Andreas Mikkelsen	Jæger is different	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	3: 21: 43.0	00: 48.4	18th
03	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën C3 WRC	3: 21: 59.4	01: 04.8	15 + 5
04th	Kris Meeke	Sebastian Marshall	Toyota Yaris WRC	3: 22: 00.8	01: 06.2	12
05	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Toyota Yaris WRC	3: 22: 15.7	01: 21.1	10 + 4
06th	Dani Sordo	Carlos del Barrio	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	3: 22: 21.3	01: 26.7	8 + 2
07th	Teemu Suninen	Marko salt mines	Ford Fiesta WRC	3: 25: 51.9	04: 47.3	6th
08th	Ott Tanak	Martin Järveoja	Toyota Yaris WRC	3: 35: 19.4	14: 24.8	4 + 1
09	Mads Østberg	Torstein Eriksen	Citroën C3 R5	3: 35: 23.1	14: 28.5	2
10	Pedro Heller	Marc Marti	Ford Fiesta R5	3: 41: 09.1	20: 14.5	1
WRC2
01 (10)	Pedro Heller	Marc Marti	Ford Fiesta R5	3: 41: 09.1		25th
02 (12)	Benito Guerra	Jaime Zapata Ortega	Škoda Fabia R5	3: 50: 43.9	09: 34.8	18th
03 (13)	Paulo Nobre	Gabriel Morales	Škoda Fabia R5	3: 52: 20.1	11: 11.0	15th

Special stages

Day	WP	Surname	length	driver	Co-driver	automobile	time	leader
WRC
Day 1 April 25th	-	Villa Carlos Paz (Shakedown)	4.25 km	Ott Tanak	Martin Järveoja	Toyota Yaris WRC	02: 34.9	n / A
	WP1	Villa Carlos Paz	1.90 km	Ott Tanak	Martin Järveoja	Toyota Yaris WRC	01: 58.6	Ott Tanak
Day 2 April 26th
	Service Carlos Paz 6:25 a.m. (15 min)
	WP2	Las Bajadas - Villa del Dique 1	16.65 km	Kris Meeke	Sebastian Marshall	Toyota Yaris WRC	09: 19.1
	WP3	Amboy - Yacanto 1	29.85 km	called off
	WP4	Santa Rosa - San Agustin 1	23.44 km	Thierry Neuville	Nicolas Gilsoul	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	14: 05.5	Kris Meeke
	WP5	Parque Tematico 1	6.04 km	Andreas Mikkelsen	Jæger is different	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	04: 45.4
	Service Carlos Paz 12:43 p.m. (40 min)
	WP6	Las Bajadas - Villa del Dique 2	16.65 km	Ott Tanak	Martin Järveoja	Toyota Yaris WRC	09: 09.7
	WP7	Amboy - Yacanto 2	29.85 km	Ott Tanak	Martin Järveoja	Toyota Yaris WRC	17: 38.5	Ott Tanak
	WP8	Santa Rosa - San Agustin 2	23.44 km	Thierry Neuville	Nicolas Gilsoul	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	13: 47.6	Thierry Neuville
	Service Carlos Paz 6:41 p.m. (45 min)
Day 3 April 27th
	Service Carlos Paz 6:57 a.m. (15 min)
	WP9	Tanti Mataderos 1st	13.92 km	Thierry Neuville	Nicolas Gilsoul	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	09: 08.1
	WP10	Mataderos - Cuchilla Nevada 1	22.67 km	Ott Tanak	Martin Järveoja	Toyota Yaris WRC	11: 56.1
	WP11	Cuchilla Nevada - Characato 1	33.65 km	Ott Tanak	Martin Järveoja	Toyota Yaris WRC	19: 45.8
	WP12	Parque Tematico 2	6.04 km	Andreas Mikkelsen	Jæger is different	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	04: 41.3
	Service Carlos Paz 12:02 p.m. (40 min)
	WP13	Tanti - Mataderos 2	13.92 km	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën C3 WRC	08: 59.9
	WP14	Mataderos - Cuchilla Nevada 2	22.67 km	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën C3 WRC	11: 44.4
	WP15	Cuchilla - Nevada Characato 2	33.65 km	Andreas Mikkelsen	Jæger is different	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	19: 34.5
	Service Carlos Paz 5:05 p.m. (45 min)
Day 4 April 28th
	Service Carlos Paz 7:45 a.m. (15 min)
	WP16	Copina - El Cóndor	16.43 km	Kris Meeke	Sebastian Marshall	Toyota Yaris WRC	13: 08.2
	WP17	Mina Clavero - Giulio Cesare	20.30 km	Thierry Neuville	Nicolas Gilsoul	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	17: 02.6
	WP18	El Cóndor (Power Stage)	16.43 km	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën C3 WRC	13: 02.1
	Service Carlos Paz 2:01 p.m. (10 min)

Winner special stages

WP	number	driver	automobile
1, 6, 7, 10, 11	5	Ott Tanak	Toyota Yaris WRC
4, 8, 9, 17	4th	Thierry Neuville	Hyundai Coupe i20 WRC
13, 14, 18	3	Sébastien Ogier	Citroën C3 WRC
5, 12, 15	3	Andreas Mikkelsen	Hyundai Coupe i20 WRC
2, 16	2	Kris Meeke	Toyota Yaris WRC

Drivers' Championship after the rally

Item	driver	Points
1	Thierry Neuville	110
2	Sébastien Ogier	100
3	Ott Tanak	82
4th	Kris Meeke	45
5	Elfyn Evans	43

Team world championship

Item	team	Points
1	Hyundai Motorsport	157
2	Toyota Racing WRT	120
3	Citroën WRT	117
4th	M-Sport WRT	78

Web links

• Official World Rally Championship website http://www.wrc.com/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ motorsport-total.com: WRC Rally Argentina: Thierry Neuville far in front - disaster for Ott Tänak , accessed on July 25, 2020
2. ↑ motorsport-total.com: WRC: Thierry Neuville wins Rally Argentina with ease , accessed on July 25, 2020
3. ↑ ewrc-results.com: Entry list , accessed on July 25, 2020
4. ↑ www.ewrc-results.com: Result , accessed on July 25, 2020
5. ↑ www.ewrc-results.com: Special stages , accessed on July 25, 2020