"Rallying, also known as rally racing, is a form of auto racing that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars. This motorsport is distinguished by running not on a circuit, but instead in a point-to-point format in which participants and their co-drivers drive between set control points (special stages), leaving at regular intervals from one or more start points. Rallies may be won by pure speed within the stages or alternatively by driving to a predetermined ideal journey time within the stages."[1]
Electronic library of Rally Cars
Rally cars that were or are competing in the World Rally Championship are presented on the following tables. Every rally car's page has the following:
- Technical specifications
- Homologation information
- World Rally Championship entrants and results1
- Photoes of rally car
- Articles found on rally car
- Drawings of rally car
List of official World Rally Championship Constructors' champions
List of official World Rally Championship Drivers' champions
- Different levels of Rally versions of any production car under group R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and RGT
- Grand Touring or Sports rally cars based or not based on production cars with extended or limited modifications allowed. These modifications were under Group 3, 4 or B regulations.
- Touring production cars, with limited modifications allowed under group 2 or group A regulations.
- Touring production cars, with limited modifications allowed under group 1 or group N regulations.
In order to participate in World Rallly Championship (WRC), manufacturers produced special models of their simple production series, just to follow homologation purposes. These models were called Homologation specials.
Since 1997, touring cars were allowed to special modifications which were under WR (World Rally Cars) or VK (Kit cars) or KS (Super Rally cars) or VR (rally cars) extension variants of group A homologation forms.
Since 2014, only group R (first introduced in 2006) cars were allowed to race in FIA races. The production models of any manufacturer is converted to any of the group R categories, under specific limited modifications, in order to participate only in rally racing.
Group R
| Year launched | RGT | WRC | 4WD | 2WD |
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| Group R: Large scale series production touring cars | ||||
| GT Production cars of 30 units minimum with base model at 200 units per year |
Rally versions of base model Touring cars of 25000 units per year | |||
| Class | RGT: Series production GT cars | World Rally Cars 1.6T | R4, R5 | R1, R2, R3 |
| 2018 | Citroen C3 III R5 | |||
| 2017 | ||||
| 2016 | Hyundai GB NG i20 WRC | |||
| 2015 | Skoda Fabia III R5 | Ford Fiesta Mk 6.5 R2T | ||
| 2014 | Porsche 996 GT3 RGT Porsche 997 GT3 RGT |
Ford Fiesta Mk 6.5 RS WRC Hyundai PB i20 WRC |
Citroen DS3 R5 Peugeot 208 T16 R5 |
Opel Adam R2 Renault Clio IV RS R3T Toyota GT86 CS-R3 |
| 2013 | VW Polo V R WRC | Citroen DS3 RRC Ford Fiesta Mk 6.5 R5 |
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| 2012 | Lotus Exige R-GT | Ford Fiesta Mk 6 RRC | Peugeot 208 R2 | |
| 2011 | Citroen DS3 WRC Ford Fiesta Mk 6 RS WRC BMW Mini Countryman WRC |
Skoda Fabia II R2 | ||
| 2010 | Citroen DS3 R3T Fiat 500 Abarth R3T Renault Twingo II RS R2 |
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| 2009 | Ford Fiesta Mk 6 R2 Peugeot 207 RC R3T |
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| 2007 | Honda Civic FN2 Type-R R3 Renault Clio III R3 |
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| 2006 | Citroen C2 R2 | |||
Groups N, A, B
Groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
