The 46th season of the World Rally Championship continued April 26-29 with the fifth round of competition, the 38th annual Rally Argentina.
The 18-stage, 358.25-kilometer (222.61 miles), based in Villa Carlos Paz, was won by Ott Tanak of Estonia, who earned his first victory of the season with co-driver Martin Jarveoja in the No. 8 Toyota Yaris WRC. Tanak won 10 stages to outlast Hyundai pilot Thierry Neuville of Belgium by 37.7 seconds, leading from the fifth stage on. Neuville’s teammate, Dani Sordo of Spain, finished third.
Here are some statistics related to the Rally Argentina as well as the 2018 season after five rounds.
- Overall Winner (Driver): Ott Tanak
- Overall Results (WRC Classic/Eligibility M Only): Ott Tanak, Thierry Neuville, Dani Sordo, Sebastien Ogier, Andreas Mikkelsen, Elfyn Evans, Kris Meeke, Esapekka Lappi, Teemu Suninen
- Overall Winner (Manufacturer): Toyota
- Overall Winner (Tire): Michelin
- Overall Winner (Country): Estonia
- Total Stages/Distance Contested: 18 stages/358.25 kilometers (222.61 miles)
- Longest Stage: 40.48 kilometers/25.15 miles (Cuchilla Nevada to Rio Pintos)
- Shortest Stage: 1.9 kilometers/1.18 miles (Villa Carlos Paz)
- Stage Winners (By Driver): Ott Tanak (10), Thierry Neuville (4), Dani Sordo (2), Sebastien Ogier (1), Andreas Mikkelsen (1)
- Stage Winners (By Country): Estonia (10), Belgium (4), Spain (2), France (1), Norway (1)
- Stage Winners (By Manufacturer): Toyota (10), Hyundai (7), Ford (1)
- Stage Winners (By Tire): Michelin (18)
- Total Time: 3:43:28.9
- Margin of Victory: 37.7 seconds
Notes of Interest (Rally Argentina):
- This was Ott Tanak’s first WRC victory of the season and the third of his career. Tanak’s last victory came in the 2017 Rallye Deutschland last August.
- Tanak joins Sebastien Ogier and Thierry Neuville as a winner of a WRC event in 2018. Ogier leads all drivers with three victories, while Tanak and Neuville each have won.
- Tanak now has at least one victory in each of the last two seasons. Tanak’s first victory came in the 2017 Rally Italia.
- Tanak won 10 stages of the Rally Argentina, the most stages a driver has won in a WRC event this season (previous most came in Rally Sweden, when Tanak won six stages). Tanak has won a season-high 27 stages in 2018, and his home country of Estonia leads all countries in stage wins with 27.
- Tanak is the only driver to win at least one stage in all five WRC events this season.
- This is Tanak’s third podium of the season and second in succession. Tanak was also second at Monte Carlo and Tour de Corse. Overall, Tanak has 14 career WRC podiums.
- Tanak shared his victory with co-driver Martin Jarveoja. All three of Tanak’s WRC career victories have come with Jarveoja.
- Tanak gave Toyota (manufacturer) and Estonia (country) their first WRC victory this season.
- Defending Rally Argentina winner Thierry Neuville and co-driver Nicolas Gilsoul finished second, their third podium of the season. Neuville, in the No. 5 Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC, won four stages, including the first stage, in which he and Gilsoul lead the overall standings. The pair moved into second overall in stage wins in 2018 with 15.
- Neuville, now has 30 career WRC podiums, also won the 16.43-kilometer Power Stage by a half second over Sebastien Ogier.
- Dani Sordo and co-driver Carlos del Barrio won two stages in Rally Argentina en route to third in the No. 6 Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC. It marked Sordo’s second podium of the season; he was second in Rally Mexico.
- Sebastien Ogier and co-driver Julien Ingrassi were fourth in the No. 1 Ford Fiesta WRC. Ogier, who won one stage in the event, has never won Rally Argentina in nine attempts. Ogier was fourth in the 2017 event and has finished as high as second on three occasions (2013, 2014 and 2016).
- Andreas Mikkelsen finished fifth, the only other driver to win a stage (led overall standings after Stages 3 and 4). Mikkelsen and co-driver Anders Jaegar-Synnevaag have finished in the top five in three WRC events this season.
- Toyota’s 10 stage wins led all manufacturers in Rally Argentina, and leads all manufacturers with 34 stage wins this season. Hyundai is second this season with 26 stage wins.
- A total of 20 drivers have earned points in WRC competition this season.
- The sixth round of the 2018 World Rally Championship is the 20-stage, 357.75-kilometer Rally de Portugal, based in Matosinhos, Porto, from May 17-20.
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2018 World Rally Championship Statistics
- Total Rallies Contested: 5
- Total Distance Covered: 1,745.21 kilometers (1,084.42 miles)
- Most Victories (Driver): Sebastien Ogier (3)
- Overall Winners (By Driver): Sebastien Ogier (3; Monte Carlo, Mexico, France), Thierry Neuville (1; Sweden), Ott Tanak (1; Argentina)
- Overall Winners (By Manufacturer): Ford (3; Monte Carlo, Mexico, France), Hyundai (1; Sweden), Toyota (1; Argentina)
- Overall Winners (By Tire): Michelin (5; Monte Carlo, Sweden, Mexico, France, Argentina)
- Overall Winners (By Country): France (3; Monte Carlo, Mexico, France), Belgium (1; Sweden), Estonia (1; Argentina)
- Most Podiums: Sebastien Ogier (3), Thierry Neuville (3), Ott Tanak (3)
- Stage Winners (By Driver): Ott Tanak (27), Thierry Neuville (15), Sebastien Ogier (13), Kris Meeke (6), Esapekka Lappi (6), Sebastien Loeb (6), Dani Sordo (5), Andreas Mikkelsen (4), Craig Breen (3), Elfyn Evans (2), Hayden Paddon (2), Teemu Suninen (1), Jari-Matt Latvala (1)
- Stage Winners (By Manufacturer): Toyota (34), Hyundai (26), Ford (16), Citroen (15)
- Stage Winners (By Tire): Michelin (91)
- Stage Winners (By Country): Estonia (27), France (19), Belgium (15), United Kingdom (8), Finland (8), Spain (5), Norway (4), Ireland (3), New Zealand (2)
- Most Rallies with One Stage Win: Ott Tanak (5)
- Total Stages Contested: 88 (average of 17.6 per rally)
- Longest Stage: 55.17 kilometers/34.28 miles (Vero to Sarrola-Carcopino; won by Ott Tanak)
- Shortest Stage: 1.11 kilometers/.69 miles (Street Stage Leon – Rally Mexico; Teemu Suninen and Andreas Mikkelsen each won one of the two contested stages)
- Drivers to Lead Points Standings: 2 (Sebastien Ogier – 4 races; Thierry Neuville – 1 race)
- Longest Distance Covered, Single Rally: 394.74 kilometers/245.28 miles (Rally Monte-Carlo; won by Sebastien Ogier)
- Shortest Distance Covered, Single Rally: 314.25 kilometers/195.266 miles (Rally Sweden; won by Thierry Neuville)
- Most Stages in a Single Rally: 22 (Rally Mexico)
- Fewest Stages in a Single Rally: 12 (Tour de Corse)
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All-Time World Rally Championship Statistics
- Total Rallies Contested: 576
- 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 (188)
- Most Championships (Driver): Sebastien Loeb (9)
- Most Championships (Manufacturer): Lancia (10)
- Most Championships (Nation): France (15)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Rally Argentina; List of World Rally Championship Drivers’ championships
- World Rally Championship website: http://www.wrc.com
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