2007 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season
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The 2007 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season was the second season of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge
Intercontinental Rally Challenge
The Intercontinental Rally Challenge is a rallying series organised by SRW Ltd and sanctioned by the FIA, aiming to "give new opportunities to young or amateur rally drivers competing in recognised regional and international rallies, while offering organisers an innovative TV format concept,...

. The season consisted of nine rounds and began on March 9, with the Safari Rally
Safari Rally
The Safari Rally is considered by many to be the world's toughest rally. It was first held from 27 May to 1 June 1953 as the East African Coronation Safari in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, as a celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II...

. The season ended on November 11 with the China Rally
China Rally
The China Rally is the largest rally racing event held in Guangdong, China. The first event was run in 1997, and was introduced to the World Rally Championship calendar for 1999, but was replaced the following year. Since then it has been part of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship...

. Enrique García Ojeda
Enrique García Ojeda
Enrique García Ojeda is a Spanish rally driver, who won the 2007 Intercontinental Rally Challenge ....

 won the title ahead of Nicolas Vouilloz
Nicolas Vouilloz
Nicolas Vouilloz is a French former professional mountain biker and rally driver.He won the Downhill Mountain Bike World Championships ten times, starting as a junior in 1992 and finishing his career with the his 10th victory in 2002, only placing lower in 2000 finishing 8th...

 and Andrea Navarra.

Calendar

Round Dates Event title Surface
1 March 9–3   Safari Rally
Safari Rally
The Safari Rally is considered by many to be the world's toughest rally. It was first held from 27 May to 1 June 1953 as the East African Coronation Safari in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, as a celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II...

 
Gravel
2 May 11–13   Rally of Turkey
Rally of Turkey
The Rally of Turkey is a rally competition on the FIA World Rally Championship schedule.-History:First international rally in Turkey was held in 1972, starting and finishing in İstanbul. In 1999, the idea of creating an all-new event as a WRC candidate was conceived. The next year in 2000, the...

 
Gravel
3 June 22–24   Belgium Ypres Westhoek Rally
Belgium Ypres Westhoek Rally
The Belgium Ypres Westhoek Rally founded by Frans Thévelin in 1965 is one of the most famous rallies in the European Rally Championship and the Intercontinental Rally Challenge....

 
Asphalt
4 July 12–14   Rally Russia Gravel
5 August 2–4   Rali Vinho da Madeira
Rali Vinho da Madeira
The Rali Vinho da Madeira is a tarmac rally held in Madeira Island, Portugal, and it is the biggest annual sporting event of the island, bringing thousands of people into the roads to watch the drivers compete through the hilly terrain and the natural landscapes...

 
Asphalt
6 August 24–26   Barum Rally Zlín  Asphalt
7 September 27–29   Rallye San Remo  Asphalt
8 October 25–27   Rallye International du Valais
Rallye International du Valais
The Rallye International du Valais is a yearly rally in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It was founded by Philippe Simonetta, a local wine dealer in 1960. Since 1980 it is part of the European Rally Championship and in 2007 and 2008 it was an event of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. In...

 
Asphalt
9 November 9–11   China Rally
China Rally
The China Rally is the largest rally racing event held in Guangdong, China. The first event was run in 1997, and was introduced to the World Rally Championship calendar for 1999, but was replaced the following year. Since then it has been part of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship...

 
Gravel

Selected entries

Entrant Constructor Car Driver Co-driver Rounds
  Abarth & C. Spa Abarth
Abarth
Abarth is an Italian racing car maker founded by Austrian-Italian Carlo Abarth and Italian Armando Scagliarini in Turin in 1949. Its logo depicts a stylized scorpion on a red and yellow background.- History :...

Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000   Andrea Navarra   Guido D'Amore 1–4
  Dario D'Esposito 5–8
  Umberto Scandola   Luigi Pirollo 1, 3
  Guido D'Amore 7–8
  Anton Alén   Timo Alanne 2, 4, 6
  Giandomenico Basso
Giandomenico Basso
Giandomenico Basso is an Italian rally driver.-Rally career:After competing in karting from 1981, Basso has been rallying since 1994 Basso has driven Fiats throughout his rallying career. He made his World Rally Championship debut on Rallye Sanremo in 1998, in a Fiat Seicento...

  Mitia Dotta 5, 7
  Fiat Motorsport Turkey   Volkan Isik   Kaan Özşenler 2–3, 5–6
  Bluthunder Racing Italy   Corrado Fontana   Renzo Casazza 3, 5–6
  Cersanit Rally Team   Michal Solowow
Michal Solowow
Michał Sołowow is a Polish businessman and racing driver. The European vice-champion , vice-champion of Poland , the European vice-champion , two-time Vice-champion of Poland ....

  Maciej Baran 3, 6
  Duindisteel   Pieter Tsjoen   Eddy Chevaillier 3
  Freddy Loix
Freddy Loix
Freddy Loix is a Belgian rally driver.Loix's career in motor sport began in karting at the age of 15...

5–8
  Fiat Vodafone   José Pedro Fontes   Fernando Prata 5
  Island Motorsport   Renato Travaglia   Lorenzo Granai 6–7
  Zero4Piu   Philippe Roux   Eric Jordan 8
  Hideaki Miyoshi Mitsubishi Ralliart
Ralliart
Ralliart was the high-performance and motorsports division of Mitsubishi Motors. It was responsible for development and preparation of the company's rally racing and off-road racing vehicles, as well as the development of high-performance models and parts available to the public...

Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX   Hideaki Miyoshi   Hakaru Ichino 1
  Island Motorsport   Renato Travaglia   Lorenzo Granai 2–5
  Dimitar Iliev   Dimitar Iliev   Yanaki Yanakiev 2–3, 5–6
  Prosport   Andrey Zhigunov   Igor Ter-Oganesiants 4
  Andrey Lagunov   Sergey Grudina 4
  Euro Oil Team   Vaclav Pech   Petr Uhel 6
  Rallye Sport Promotion   Karel Trojan   Petr Rihak 6
  Mediasport Czezh National Team   Vaclav Arazim   Julius Gal 6
  Tescoma Rally Team   Roman Kresta
Roman Kresta
Roman Kresta , is a professional rally driver. In 2005, he drove for Ford in the World Rally Championship. His co-driver was Jan Tomanek. The pair won the Czech national rally championship in 2000, prior to their début in the WRC.Kresta's first World Rally was the 2001 Acropolis Rally, driving a...

  Petr Gross 6
  Ralliart Italy
Ralliart
Ralliart was the high-performance and motorsports division of Mitsubishi Motors. It was responsible for development and preparation of the company's rally racing and off-road racing vehicles, as well as the development of high-performance models and parts available to the public...

  Paolo Andreucci
Paolo Andreucci
Paolo Andreucci Paolo Andreucci Paolo Andreucci (born 21 April 1965 is an Italian rally driver.He won Rally Sanremo in IRC twice, he is also 4 time Italian Rally Champion.-IRC results:-External links:* * *...

  Anna Andreussi 7
  Matteo Gamba   Giancarla Guzzi 7
  MRF Tyres
Madras Rubber Factory
Madras Rubber Factory, popularly known as MRF, is a major tyre manufacturing company located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.The name was later changed as "Manorama Rubber Factory". MRF is mainly involved in making vehicle tyres. It is India's largest tyre manufacturing company, and among the dozen...

  Jussi Valimaki
Jussi Välimäki
Jussi Välimäki is a Finnish rally driver, who scored eight World Rally Championship points during his career, with a best finish of fifth on the 2006 Rally d'Italia Sardegna.-Career:...

  Jarkko Kalliolepo 9
  Katsuhiko Taguchi
Katsuhiko Taguchi
is a Japanese rally driver.-Career:Taguchi began rallying in 1994. He based most of his rallying in Australia and New Zealand, competing in his first World Rally Championship event on Rally New Zealand in 1995. In 1999 he won the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship . In 2001 he competed on the Cyprus...

  Mark Stacey 9
  Gaurav Gill
Gaurav Gill
Gaurav Gill is an Indian race car driver who started his motorsport career by rallying on 2 wheels in the Indian National Rally Championship. He is based out of Delhi.Heis India’s leading rally driver...

  Glenn MacNeall 9
  Mitsubishi Lancer Wan Yu Team   David Higgins
David Higgins (rally driver)
David Higgins is a British rally driver.Higgins won the 1997, 1999 and 2002 British Rally Championships in the Group N category. He won the SCCA ProRally Championship in America in 2002 and 2003. In 2004 he returned to the British championship for what was supposed to be a one-off entry at the...

  Ieuan Thomas 9
  Qingxian Hua   Jian Zhang 9
  Fan Fan   Shu Fan 9
  Peugeot Sport España
Peugeot Sport
Peugeot Sport is the department of French carmaker Peugeot responsible for motorsport activities.-Beginnings in rallying:Peugeot Sport was formed in 1981 under the name of Peugeot Talbot Sport, after Jean Todt, a World Rally Championship co-driver for Talbot driver Guy Fréquelin, was asked by...

Peugeot
Peugeot Sport
Peugeot Sport is the department of French carmaker Peugeot responsible for motorsport activities.-Beginnings in rallying:Peugeot Sport was formed in 1981 under the name of Peugeot Talbot Sport, after Jean Todt, a World Rally Championship co-driver for Talbot driver Guy Fréquelin, was asked by...

Peugeot 207 S2000
Peugeot 207 S2000
The Peugeot 207 S2000 is Super 2000 rally car developed by Peugeot Sport. It is based upon the Peugeot 207 road car. Drivers Enrique García Ojeda, Nicolas Vouilloz and Kris Meeke won the Intercontinental Rally Challenge drivers' title in 2007, 2008 and 2009 respectively in a Peugeot 207 S2000....

  Nicolas Vouilloz
Nicolas Vouilloz
Nicolas Vouilloz is a French former professional mountain biker and rally driver.He won the Downhill Mountain Bike World Championships ten times, starting as a junior in 1992 and finishing his career with the his 10th victory in 2002, only placing lower in 2000 finishing 8th...

  Nicolas Klinger 2–8
  Enrique García Ojeda
Enrique García Ojeda
Enrique García Ojeda is a Spanish rally driver, who won the 2007 Intercontinental Rally Challenge ....

  Jordi Barrades Costa 2–8
  Peugeot Team Belux
Kronos Racing
Kronos Racing is a Belgian auto racing and rally team.-History:Kronos Racing was set up in 1994, and ran circuit racing and rallying programmes on behalf of Peugeot Belgium/Luxembourg. The team's Peugeot 306 GTIs won the Spa 24 Hours in 1999 and 2000, the last two years that the event was run as a...

  Bernd Casier   Frédéric Miclotte 3, 5–8
  Racing Lions SRL   Luca Rossetti
Luca Rossetti
Luca Rossetti is an Italian rally driver. He won the European Rally Championship in 2008, 2010 and 2011.-IRC results:* * Season in progress.- External links :*...

  Matteo Chiarcossi 3, 7
  Gilles Panizzi
Gilles Panizzi
Gilles Panizzi is a French rally driver on the World Rally Championship circuit.Gilles was born in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes...

  Xavier Panseri 7
  Peugeot Total Hungaria   János Tóth   Bea Bahor 3, 6
  Robert Tagai 7
  Peugeot Sport Sweden
Peugeot Sport
Peugeot Sport is the department of French carmaker Peugeot responsible for motorsport activities.-Beginnings in rallying:Peugeot Sport was formed in 1981 under the name of Peugeot Talbot Sport, after Jean Todt, a World Rally Championship co-driver for Talbot driver Guy Fréquelin, was asked by...

  Jimmy Joge   Mattias Andersson 4
  Mathias Gardman 6
  Peugeot Total   Bruno Magalhães
Bruno Magalhães
Bruno Magalhães is a Portuguese rally driver. He is a regular competitor in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, driving a Peugeot 207 S2000 for Peugeot Sport Portugal. He is a twice-podium finisher on the Rali Vinho da Madeira, finishing second in 2007 and second in 2009. He won the 2010 Rally...

  Paulo Grave 5, 7
  BSA   Brice Tirabassi
Brice Tirabassi
Brice Tirabassi is a French rally driver. He won the Junior World Rally Championship in 2003.-Career:Tirabassi won the French Rally Championship in 2002, before stepping up to the Junior World Rally Championship in 2003. He won three out of seven rounds to take the crown. In 2005, he competed in...

  Fabrice Gordon 7
Lugano Racing Team Christian Jaquillard Christiane Jaquillard 8
  Citroën Sport Citroen
Citroën
Citroën is a major French automobile manufacturer, part of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group.Founded in 1919 by French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën , Citroën was the first mass-production car company outside the USA and pioneered the modern concept of creating a sales and services network that...

Citroen C2 S1600   Simon Jean-Joseph   Jacques Boyere 2–6
Zero4Piu Antonio Galli   Paolo Brusadelli 8
  JAS Motorsport Honda
Honda
is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than...

Honda Civic Type-R R3   Daniel Sola
Daniel Solà
Daniel Solà Villa is a Spanish rally driver. He won the Junior World Rally Championship in 2002 and the Spanish Rally Championship in 2006....

  Oscar Sanchez 2–6
  Carlos Del Barrio 7
  Luca Betti   Simone Cuneo 2
  Giovanni Bernacchini 3–8
  Belgian VW Club Volkswagen
Volkswagen
Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...

VW Polo S2000
Volkswagen Polo
The Volkswagen Polo is a supermini car manufactured by Volkswagen. It is sold in Europe and other markets worldwide in hatchback, saloon, coupé and estate variants....

  Freddy Loix
Freddy Loix
Freddy Loix is a Belgian rally driver.Loix's career in motor sport began in karting at the age of 15...

  Robin Buysmans 3

Drivers standings

  • The best seven scores from each driver count towards the championship.
    EWLINE
    Pos Driver SAF
    Safari Rally
    The Safari Rally is considered by many to be the world's toughest rally. It was first held from 27 May to 1 June 1953 as the East African Coronation Safari in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, as a celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II...


     
    TUR
    Rally of Turkey
    The Rally of Turkey is a rally competition on the FIA World Rally Championship schedule.-History:First international rally in Turkey was held in 1972, starting and finishing in İstanbul. In 1999, the idea of creating an all-new event as a WRC candidate was conceived. The next year in 2000, the...


     
    YPR
    Belgium Ypres Westhoek Rally
    The Belgium Ypres Westhoek Rally founded by Frans Thévelin in 1965 is one of the most famous rallies in the European Rally Championship and the Intercontinental Rally Challenge....


     
    RUS
     
    MAD
    Rali Vinho da Madeira
    The Rali Vinho da Madeira is a tarmac rally held in Madeira Island, Portugal, and it is the biggest annual sporting event of the island, bringing thousands of people into the roads to watch the drivers compete through the hilly terrain and the natural landscapes...


     
    ZLI
     
    SAN
    Rallye Sanremo
    Rallye Sanremo is a rally competition held in Sanremo, Italy. Except for the 1995 event, the event was part of the FIA World Rally Championship schedule from the 1973 season to the 2003 season. Currently, it is a round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge and the Italian national rally...


     
    VAL
    Rallye International du Valais
    The Rallye International du Valais is a yearly rally in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It was founded by Philippe Simonetta, a local wine dealer in 1960. Since 1980 it is part of the European Rally Championship and in 2007 and 2008 it was an event of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. In...


     
    CHN
    China Rally
    The China Rally is the largest rally racing event held in Guangdong, China. The first event was run in 1997, and was introduced to the World Rally Championship calendar for 1999, but was replaced the following year. Since then it has been part of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship...


     
     Pts 
    1   Enrique García Ojeda
    Enrique García Ojeda
    Enrique García Ojeda is a Spanish rally driver, who won the 2007 Intercontinental Rally Challenge ....

    3 2 2 4 2 6 2 47
    2   Nicolas Vouilloz
    Nicolas Vouilloz
    Nicolas Vouilloz is a French former professional mountain biker and rally driver.He won the Downhill Mountain Bike World Championships ten times, starting as a junior in 1992 and finishing his career with the his 10th victory in 2002, only placing lower in 2000 finishing 8th...

    1 Ret 3 10 1 3 1 42
    3   Andrea Navarra 3 2 3 4 Ret 7 10 Ret 32
    4   Luca Rossetti
    Luca Rossetti
    Luca Rossetti is an Italian rally driver. He won the European Rally Championship in 2008, 2010 and 2011.-IRC results:* * Season in progress.- External links :*...

    1 1 20
    5   Giandomenico Basso
    Giandomenico Basso
    Giandomenico Basso is an Italian rally driver.-Rally career:After competing in karting from 1981, Basso has been rallying since 1994 Basso has driven Fiats throughout his rallying career. He made his World Rally Championship debut on Rallye Sanremo in 1998, in a Fiat Seicento...

    1 2 18
    6   Umberto Scandola Ret 5 4 3 15
    7   Anton Alén 4 1 Ret 15
    8   Bernd Casier 4 6 5 14 Ret 13
    9   David Higgins
    David Higgins (rally driver)
    David Higgins is a British rally driver.Higgins won the 1997, 1999 and 2002 British Rally Championships in the Group N category. He won the SCCA ProRally Championship in America in 2002 and 2003. In 2004 he returned to the British championship for what was supposed to be a one-off entry at the...

    2 10
    10   Bruno Magalhães
    Bruno Magalhães
    Bruno Magalhães is a Portuguese rally driver. He is a regular competitor in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, driving a Peugeot 207 S2000 for Peugeot Sport Portugal. He is a twice-podium finisher on the Rali Vinho da Madeira, finishing second in 2007 and second in 2009. He won the 2010 Rally...

    3 Ret 8
    11   Lang Xu 3 8
    12   Hideaki Miyoshi 4 8
    13   Václav Pech 3 6
    14   Martin Rowe 6 6
    15   Asad Answar 7 6
    16   Freddy Loix
    Freddy Loix
    Freddy Loix is a Belgian rally driver.Loix's career in motor sport began in karting at the age of 15...

    Ret Ret Ret 11 4 5
    17   Roman Kresta
    Roman Kresta
    Roman Kresta , is a professional rally driver. In 2005, he drove for Ford in the World Rally Championship. His co-driver was Jan Tomanek. The pair won the Czech national rally championship in 2000, prior to their début in the WRC.Kresta's first World Rally was the 2001 Acropolis Rally, driving a...

    4 5
    18   José Pedro Fontes 5 5
    19   Brian Green 7 5
    20   Sammy Aslam 8 5
    21   Renato Travaglia 5 13 Ret Ret 8 Ret 5
    22   Marco Cavigioli 16 21 5 15 Ret 20 4
    23   Paolo Andreucci
    Paolo Andreucci
    Paolo Andreucci Paolo Andreucci Paolo Andreucci (born 21 April 1965 is an Italian rally driver.He won Rally Sanremo in IRC twice, he is also 4 time Italian Rally Champion.-IRC results:-External links:* * *...

    5 4
    24   Luca Betti 21 Ret Ret Ret 22 30 9 4
    25   Qingxian Hua 9 4
    26   Robert Gow 19 4
    27   Simon Jean-Joseph 8 10 11 8 10 4
    28   Volkan Isik 6 Ret 14 13 3
    29   Václav Arazim 6 3
    30   Corrado Fontana Ret 7 Ret 3
    31   Patrick Snijers 7 3
    32   Andrey Zhigunov 7 3
    33   Philippe Roux 10 3
    34   Shinichiro Karakama 10 3
    35   Navraj Hans 25 3
    36   Tomasz Czopik 7 11 Ret 2
    37   Dimitar Iliev Ret 8 Ret Ret 2
    38   Boris Fedotov 8 2
    39   Gilles Panizzi
    Gilles Panizzi
    Gilles Panizzi is a French rally driver on the World Rally Championship circuit.Gilles was born in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes...

    8 2
    40   Jean-Philippe Radoux 11 2
    41   Chunlei Shi 11 2
    42   Gergely Szabo 9 17 1
    43   Alexandre Camacho 9 1
    44   Devis Cremona 12 1
    45   Fenghze Xie 12 1
    Pos Driver SAF
    Safari Rally
    The Safari Rally is considered by many to be the world's toughest rally. It was first held from 27 May to 1 June 1953 as the East African Coronation Safari in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, as a celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II...


     
    TUR
    Rally of Turkey
    The Rally of Turkey is a rally competition on the FIA World Rally Championship schedule.-History:First international rally in Turkey was held in 1972, starting and finishing in İstanbul. In 1999, the idea of creating an all-new event as a WRC candidate was conceived. The next year in 2000, the...


     
    YPR
    Belgium Ypres Westhoek Rally
    The Belgium Ypres Westhoek Rally founded by Frans Thévelin in 1965 is one of the most famous rallies in the European Rally Championship and the Intercontinental Rally Challenge....


     
    RUS
     
    MAD
    Rali Vinho da Madeira
    The Rali Vinho da Madeira is a tarmac rally held in Madeira Island, Portugal, and it is the biggest annual sporting event of the island, bringing thousands of people into the roads to watch the drivers compete through the hilly terrain and the natural landscapes...


     
    ZLI
     
    SAN
    Rallye Sanremo
    Rallye Sanremo is a rally competition held in Sanremo, Italy. Except for the 1995 event, the event was part of the FIA World Rally Championship schedule from the 1973 season to the 2003 season. Currently, it is a round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge and the Italian national rally...


     
    VAL
    Rallye International du Valais
    The Rallye International du Valais is a yearly rally in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It was founded by Philippe Simonetta, a local wine dealer in 1960. Since 1980 it is part of the European Rally Championship and in 2007 and 2008 it was an event of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. In...


     
    CHN
    China Rally
    The China Rally is the largest rally racing event held in Guangdong, China. The first event was run in 1997, and was introduced to the World Rally Championship calendar for 1999, but was replaced the following year. Since then it has been part of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship...


     
     Pts 

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