The 46th season of the World Rally Championship continued
this weekend with the 15th annual Rally Mexico.
The scheduled 22-stage, 344.49-kilometer (214.06 miles)
event was won by Sebastien Ogier, who won by one minute, 3.6 seconds over Spanish
driver Dani Sordo. The event began Thursday, March 8, and concluded Sunday, March 11.
Here are some statistics related to the 2018 season after
Round 3 as well as Rally Mexico.
- Overall Winner (Driver): Sebastien Ogier
- Overall Results: Sebastien Ogier, Dani Sordo, Kris Meeke,
Andreas Mikkelsen, Sebastien Loeb, Thierry Neuville, Pontus Tidemand,
Jari-Matti Latvala, Gus Greensmith, Pedro Heller, Ott Tanak
- Overall Winner (Manufacturer): Ford
- Overall Winner (Tire): Michelin
- Overall Winner (Country): France
- Total Stages Contested: 22
- Longest Stage: 30.97
kilometers/19.24 miles (Guanajuatito)
- Shortest Stage:
1.11 kilometers/.69 miles (Street Stage Leon)
- Stage Winners (By Driver): Sebastien Ogier (5)^, Kris
Meeke (5)*, Ott Tanak (5)@^, Dani Sordo (3)*, Sebastien Loeb (3)@, Thierry
Neuville (1), Teemu Suninen (1), Andreas Mikkelsen (1), Jari-Matti Latvala (1)
- Stage Winners (By Country): France (8), Estonia (5), United
Kingdom (5), Spain (3), Finland (2), Belgium (1), Norway (1)
- Stage Winners (By Manufacturer): Citroen (8), Ford (6), Toyota
(6), Hyundai (5)
- Stage Winners (By Tire): Michelin (22)
- Total Time: 3:54:08.0
- Margin of Victory: 1 minute, 3.6 seconds (63.6 seconds)
@ Loeb and Tanak tied for the quickest time in the eighth
stage, at nine minutes, 24.8 seconds on the 17.23-kilometer stage at Ortega.
^ Ogier and Tanak tied for the quickest time in the 10th
stage, at one minute, 37.3 seconds at the 2.3-kilometer stage at Autodromo de
Leon.
* Meeke and Sordo tied for the quickest time in the 17th
stage, at one minute, 38 seconds on the 2.3-kilometer stage at Autodromo de
Leon.
Notes of Interest
(Rally Mexico):
- This was the 42nd career victory for Sebastien Ogier,
driver of the No. 1 Ford Fiesta WRC, and his fourth in Rally Mexico. Ogier is
second all-time in WRC victories, behind fellow Frenchman Sebastien Loeb (78).
Ogier led from the 14th stage until the finish.
- Ogier has now won at least two WRC rallies in each of the
last six seasons. He has won at least two rallies in eight of the last nine
seasons, winless only in 2012.
- Ogier has won exactly one-third of his career WRC rallies
(42 of 126; 33.3 percent).
- Ogier’s five stage victories were a season-best (had four
at Rallye Monte-Carlo) and brought his career total to 510 stage wins, the 10th
most all-time. He is 19 behind Stig Blomqvist (529) for ninth all-time.
- Ogier now has 67 WRC podiums. That is fifth all-time, and
two behind Mikko Hirvonen (69) for fourth place all-time.
- Ogier shared the victory with co-driver Julien Ingrassi;
together, they have 42 victories.
- France has claimed 187 WRC driver victories, nine more than
the country of Finland.
- Dani Sordo and Carlos del Barrio finished second in the No.
6 Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC, the top-finishing Hyundai. It marked Sordo’s first
podium of the season and first since the 2017 Rally de Portugal last May. Sordo
was the class leader from the third through the 10th stage.
- Sordo won three stages to bring his career total to 172. He
now has 43 podiums in 154 WRC rallies.
- Sordo is the first Spanish driver this year with a podium
as well as a stage victory.
- Defending Rally Mexico winner Kris Meeke and co-driver
Paul Nagle were third in the highest-finishing Citroen, the No. 10 Citroen C3
WRC. It marked his first podium since winning the 2017 Rally de Espana last
October. Meeke has two finishes of fourth or better this season.
- Meeke won five stages to bring his career total to 76. He
now has 12 podiums in 88 WRC rallies.
- Andreas Mikkelesen scored a stage victory en route to
finishing fourth overall. He has won one stage in each of the first three WRC
events this season.
- Nine-time WRC champion Sebastien Loeb finished fifth in
his first WRC rally since the 2015 Rallye Monte-Carlo. Loeb won three stages to
extend his all-time record to 908 stage wins. Loeb was the class leader from
the 11th through 13th stages.
- Rally Sweden winner Thierry Neuville won the first stage
and was the class leader after the 2.53-kilometer win in the Street Stage GTO.
However, that marked the only stage win for the Neuville, who entered the event
tied for the most stage wins in 2018 (10 with Ott Tanak). Neuville finished
sixth.
- Tanak finished 14th overall and 10th in class, retiring
after engine trouble. Tanak, however, was the winner of the power stage, the
11.07-kilometer stage at the end of the rally.
- Teemu Suninen was not classified at the end of the rally,
however, he also picked up a stage victory, the 1.11-kilometer Street Stage
Leon (fifth stage).
- Citroen’s eight stage victories were the most for the
French marque of any WRC event in 2018 (only had four total in the first two WRC
events, at Monte-Carlo and Sweden). Hyundai added five stage wins and is the
season leader with 19.
- All 22 scheduled stages were contested. It marked the most
stages completed in Rally Mexico since 2014 (also 22).
***
2018 World Rally
Championship Statistics
- Total Rallies Contested: 3
- Total Distance Covered: 1,053.48 kilometers (654.60 miles)
- Most Victories (Driver): Sebastien Ogier (2)
- Overall Winners (By Driver): Sebastien Ogier (2; Monte
Carlo, Mexico), Thierry Neuville (1; Sweden)
- Overall Winners (By Manufacturer): Ford (2; Monte Carlo,
Mexico), Hyundai (1; Sweden)
- Overall Winners (By Tire): Michelin (3; Monte Carlo,
Sweden, Mexico)
- Overall Winners (By Country): France (2; Monte Carlo,
Mexico), Belgium (1; Sweden)
- Most Podiums: Sebastien Ogier (2)
- Stage Winners (By Driver): Ott Tanak (15), Thierry
Neuville (11), Sebastien Ogier (9), Kris Meeke (6), Craig Breen (3), Dani Sordo
(3), Sebastien Loeb (3), Andreas Mikkelsen (3), Elfyn Evans (2), Hayden Paddon
(2), Esapekka Lappi (2), Teemu Suninen (1), Jari-Matt Latvala (1)
- Stage Winners (By Manufacturer): Hyundai (19), Toyota (18),
Citroen (12), Ford (12)
- Stage Winners (By Tire): Michelin (61)
- Stage Winners (By Country): Estonia (15), France (12), Belgium
(11), United Kingdom (8), Finland (4), Ireland (3), Spain (3), Norway (3), New
Zealand (2)
- Total Stages Contested: 58 (average of 19.33 per rally)
- Longest Stage:
36.58 kilometers/22.73 miles (Thoard-Sisteron – Rallye Monte Carlo)
- Shortest Stage: 1.11
kilometers/.69 miles (Street Stage Leon – Rally Mexico)
- Drivers to Lead Points Standings: 2 (Sebastien Ogier – 2;
Thierry Neuville – 1)
- Longest Distance Covered, Single Rally: 394.74 kilometers
(Rally Monte-Carlo)
- Shortest Distance Covered, Single Rally: 314.25 kilometers
(Rally Sweden)
- Most Stages in a Single Rally: 22 (Rally Mexico)
- Fewest Stages in a Single Rally: 17 (Rally Monte-Carlo)
Notes of Interest
***
All-Time World Rally
Championship Statistics
- Total Rallies Contested: 574
- Drivers With At Least One Win: 77 (First: Jean-Claude
Andruet; 77th: Elfyn Evans)
- Manufacturers With At Least One Win: 21
- Nations With At Least One Win: 17
- Most Victories (Driver): Sebastien Loeb (78)
- Most Victories (Manufacturer): Citroen (98)
- Most Victories (Nation): France (187)
- Most Championships (Driver): Sebastien Loeb (9)
- Most Championships (Manufacturer): Lancia (10)
- Most Championships (Nation): France (15)
Sources:
- Wikipedia: Rally Mexico; List of World Rally Championship
Drivers’ championships
- World Rally Championship website: http://www.wrc.com
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