The International Rally of Nations is an international Rally

Demonstration (people)

A demonstration or street protest is action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause; it normally consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, to hear speakers.Actions such as...

 event held in México

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 for the first time in 2009.

According to the organization, "the idea of this event is to bring the emotional side of the Olympic Games or the world cup to the automobile world with the possibility of several teams per country."

The idea for the event came after the Rally Mexico

Rally Mexico

The Corona Rally Mexico, formerly known as Rally America is a round of the FIA World Rally Championship. The rally entered the championship schedule in the 2004 season. The event's itinerary is based in the state of Guanajuato...

 was not included in the 2009 World Rally Championship

2009 World Rally Championship season

The 2009 World Rally Championship season was the 37th season of the FIA World Rally Championship. The season consisted of twelve rallies and began on 30 January, with Rally Ireland and ended with Rally GB on 25 October. Sébastien Loeb won the World Drivers' championship at Rally GB by one point...

 due to the rotation system.

The event was won by Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

's Xavier Pons

Xavier Pons

Xavier "Xevi" Pons Puigdillers is a rally driver competing in the World Rally Championship.Pons started his racing career on motorcycles and won the Spanish national enduro championship in 1998. That same year, he competed with the Spanish junior team at the International Six Days Enduro and won...

 and Daniel Solà

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....

, with the two drivers amassing a total of 1067.5 points.

Format

This Rally has a special format since, unlike other rallies, time will not be added stage by stage. Each Special Stage will give points to the top 16 drivers. A team representing a nation will consist of two cars and the points scored by each driver will be added together to determine the Nations Champion.

According to the official rules:

"Points will be awarded to each member of a Team per each Special Stage or Super Special Stage completed.
The best-classified crew of each Team will be awarded points as Car 1, the second crew as Car 2. Each crew will be awarded points according to its overall position in the stage classification from the eligible crews (Competing for the Rally of Nations) in each Super Special Stage or Special Stage according to the following scale:"

Position	Car 1	Car 2
1st	45
2nd	40	30
3rd	36	27
4th	32	24
5th	28	21
6th	24	18
7th	20	15
8th	18	13.5
9th	16	12
10th	14	10.5
11th	12	9
12th	10	7.5
13th	8	6
14th	6	4.5
15th	4	3
16th	2	1

The Team scoring the most points at the end of the Rally will be declared the
Winner of the Rally of Nations.

2009 Entries

There are some very important drivers, including former and/or World Rally Championship

World Rally Championship

The World Rally Championship is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. The series currently consists of 13...

, Production World Rally Championship

Production World Rally Championship

The FIA Production World Rally Championship, or PWRC, is a companion rally series to the World Rally Championship, and is driven on the same stages. PWRC is limited to production-based cars homologated under the Group N. The series began in 2002, replacing the FIA Group N Rally Championship...

 and NACAM Rally Championship champions.

Team	Driver	Codriver	Group	Car
Austria	Manfred Stohl Manfred Stohl Manfred Stohl is an Austrian rally driver who debuted in the World Rally Championship in 1991. Stohl's co-driver is fellow Austrian Ilka Minor.- Career :...	Ilka Minor	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Austria	Andreas Aigner Andreas Aigner Andreas Aigner is an Austrian rally driver. He won the Production World Rally Championship in the 2008 season.-Career:...	Daniela Weissengruber	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Ecuador	Juan Pablo Villota	Juan Carlos Viteri	A6	Peugeot 206 XS
Ecuador	Camilo Rivera	Juan José Rivera	A6	Peugeot 206 XS
Corona Team Finland	Harri Rovanperä Harri Rovanperä Harri "Rovis" Rovanperä is a Finnish rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship from 1993 to 2006. He drove for SEAT , Peugeot , Mitsubishi and Red Bull Škoda Team...	Jouni Arolainen	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Corona Team Finland	Toni Gardemeister Toni Gardemeister Toni Gardemeister , is a professional rally driver in the World Rally Championship. After previously competing for SEAT's, Mitsubishi's, Škoda's and Ford's factory teams, as well as for privateer teams, he joined the Suzuki World Rally Team for the 2008 season.-Early:From the outset of his career...	Tomi Tuominen	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
France	Didier Auriol Didier Auriol Didier Auriol is a French rally driver.Born in Montpellier, and initially an ambulance driver, Auriol made his name as a French rally driver in the World Rally Championship throughout the 1990s. He became World Rally Champion in 1994, the first from his country to do so...	Denis Giraudet	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
France	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	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Great Britain	Phillip Morrow	Damien Connolly	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Great Britain	Niall McShea Niall McShea Niall McShea is an Irish rally driver. He won the Production World Rally Championship in 2004 in a Subaru Impreza WRX STI...	Marshall Clarke	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Germany	Hermann Gassner Jr.	Kathi Wüstenhagen	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Germany	Mark Wallenwein	Stefan Kopczyk	N4	Subaru Impreza WRX
Pirelli Team Italia	Mario Isola	Roberto Mometti	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Pirelli Team Italia	Stefano Marrini	Matteo Braga	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
México 1	Rodrigo Ordóñez	Mauricio Pimentel	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
México 1	José Cortés	Alex Prieto Alex Prieto Alejandro Antonio "Alex" Prieto [pre-AY-to] is a Major League Baseball second baseman and right-handed batter who is currently a member of the Edmonton Capitals of the North American League. He played parts of two seasons in the majors, and , for the Minnesota Twins...	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
México 2	Ricardo Triviño	Checo Salom	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
México 2	Rodrigo Salgado	Diódoro Salgado	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
México 3	Francisco Name	Armando Zapata	A6	Peugeot 206 XS
México 3	Guillermo Fonseca	José Alonso López	A6	Peugeot 206 XS
Perú	Humberto Tijero	Michael Espinoza	N3	Renault Clio
Perú	Sandro Pestana	Gianpier Giacchetti	A6	Peugeot 206 XS
Spain	Dani Sola	Oscar Sanchez Oscar Sanchez Oscar Sanchez, is the President and CEO of Affluent Records. Affluent is an indie digital music record label, created and founded in 2005. Since its inception Affluent Records has successfully grown to becoming recognized as one of New York City’s top tier leading independent brands...	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Spain	Xavier Pons Xavier Pons Xavier "Xevi" Pons Puigdillers is a rally driver competing in the World Rally Championship.Pons started his racing career on motorcycles and won the Spanish national enduro championship in 1998. That same year, he competed with the Spanish junior team at the International Six Days Enduro and won...	Alex Haro	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Sweden	Patrik Sandell Patrik Sandell Patrik Sandell is a rally driver from Sweden. Sandell won the Swedish Junior Championship in 2004 and the Swedish Group N3 Championship in 2005. In 2006, he won the Junior World Rally Championship title driving for Renault...	Emil Axelsson	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Sweden	Per-Gunnar Andersson Per-Gunnar Andersson (rally driver) Per-Gunnar Andersson is a Swedish rally driver. He is a two-time winner of the Junior World Rally Championship.-Career:...	Anders Fredriksson	N4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
Uruguay	Felipe Guelfi	Ignacio Albanell	A6	Peugeot 206 XS
Uruguay	Diego Elola	Pablo Irrazabal	A6	Peugeot 206 XS
USA 1	Matthew Johnson	Chrissie Beavis	N4	Subaru Impreza WRX
USA 1	Kenny Bartram Kenny Bartram Kenny Bartram is an American professional freestyle motocross rider. Bartram is from Stillwater, Oklahoma, hence his nickname "The Cowboy." . Before his career in FMX, he won many Oklahoma State Series MX Races...	Dennis Hotson	N4	Subaru Impreza WRX
USA 2	Patrick Moro	Ole Holter	N4	Subaru Impreza STI
USA 2	Piotr Wiktorczyk	Martin Brady Martin Brady Martin Brady is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician, who was served as a Teachta Dála and Senator from 1997 to 2011.Born in Virginia, County Cavan, he was a member of Dublin City Council for the Donaghmede area from 1991–2004. Brady was a Teachta Dála for the Dublin North East constituency...	N4	Subaru Impreza WRX