Rally China

The Rally China has been held since 1997. It was first run as a World Championship run (WRC) in 1999 . The rally was driven on gravel roads around Shaoguan City in Guangdong Province .

Didier Auriol ( Toyota Corolla WRC ) won ahead of Richard Burns ( Subaru Impreza ) and Carlos Sainz (Toyota Corolla). The sometimes chaotic rally struggled with problems when crossing the connecting pieces to the individual special stages and heavy rain set in in the last special stages.

Since the search for sponsors for the rally was difficult and the infrastructure was only able to satisfy the FIA to a limited extent , there was no more World Rally Championship round in the People's Republic of China in the following years . It was only in 2016 that China Rally was again in the WRC received calendar.

Overall winner

year	rally	driver	Co-driver	vehicle
1997	01. 555 China Rally	Colin McRae	Nicky Grist	Subaru Impreza S3
1998	02. 555 China Rally	Colin McRae	Nicky Grist	Subaru Impreza S3
1999	03. 555 China Rally	Didier Auriol	Denis Giraudet	Toyota Corolla WRC
2000	04. 555 China Rally	Peter Bourne	Mark Stacey	Subaru Impreza WRX
2001	05th Rally of China Shaoguan	Domenico Caldarola	Dario D'Esposito	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI
2002	06th Rally of China Shaoguan	Karamjit Singh	Everyone Oh	Proton Pert
2004	07th China Rally	Katsuhiko Taguchi	Mark Stacey	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII
2005	08th China Rally	Jussi Välimäki	Mikko Markkula	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII
2006	09th Rally China Longyou	Cody Crocker	Benjamin Atkinson	Subaru Impreza
2007	10th Rally China Longyou	Cody Crocker	Benjamin Atkinson	Subaru Impreza STi N12
2008	11th Rally China Longyou	Cody Crocker	Benjamin Atkinson	Subaru Impreza WRX
2009	12th Rally China Longyou	Cody Crocker	Benjamin Atkinson	Subaru Impreza STi
2010	13th Rally China Longyou	Mark Higgins	Robbie Durant	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
2011	14th Rally China Longyou	Alister McRae	William Hayes	Proton Satria Neo S2000
2012	15th Rally China Longyou	Alister McRae	William Hayes	Proton Satria Neo S2000
2013	16th Rally China Longyou	Esapekka Lappi	Janne Ferm	Škoda Fabia S2000
2014	17th Rally China Longyou	Chris Atkinson	Stéphane Prévot	Volkswagen Golf SCRC
2015	18th Rally China Longyou	Pontus Tidemand	Emil Axelsson	Škoda Fabia R5
2016	19th Rally China Longyou	canceled due to flooding

Individual evidence

1. ↑ juwra.com: Rally China , September 27, 2014

Web links

• Results on ewrc-results.com