However, the number of the events was reduced to thirteen following a lengthy delay of the calendar. The championship was expected to be expanded to fourteen rounds, with eight Europe-based rallies and six fly-away events covering the season. The 2023 season is scheduled to be contested over thirteen rounds crossing Europe, Africa, North and South America and Asia. Event headquarters are marked with black dots. The season was marred by the death of Craig Breen in a pre-event test prior to the 2023 Croatia Rally.Ĭlass=notpageimage| A map showing the locations of the rallies in the 2023 championship. In the manufacturers' championship, reigning manufacturers' champions Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT hold a thirty-two-point lead over Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, with M-Sport Ford WRT in third. Sébastien Ogier and Vincent Landais are third, a further twelve point behind. Toyota are the defending manufacturers' champions.Īfter the fifth round, Rovanperä and Halttunen respectively lead the drivers' and co-drivers' championship over Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja by seventeen points.
Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen are the reigning drivers' and co-drivers' champions, having secured their first championship titles at the 2022 Rally New Zealand.
The series is supported by the World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3 categories at every round of the championship and by the Junior World Rally Championship at selected events. The championship began in January 2023 with the Monte Carlo Rally and is set to conclude in November 2023 with the Rally Japan. Crews are free to compete in cars complying with Groups Rally1 to Rally5 regulations however, only manufacturers competing with Rally1 cars homologated are eligible to score points in the manufacturers' championship. Teams and crews compete for the World Rally Championships for Drivers, Co-drivers and Manufacturers. The 2023 FIA World Rally Championship is the fifty-first season of the World Rally Championship, an auto racing competition recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) as the highest class of international rallying. Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT ( GR Yaris Rally1 pictured) is the current manufacturers' championship leader.
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