2013 European Rally Championship

The 2013 European Rally Championship season was the 61st season of the FIA European Rally Championship, the European continental championship series in rallying. The season was also the first following the merger between the European Rally Championship and the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. French broadcaster Eurosport, which previously organised the IRC, assumed the duties of organising the ERC.

The season started in Austria on 3 January, with the running of the Internationale Jänner Rallye, and finished on 9 November at the International Rallye du Valais.^[1] Jan Kopecký won the Championship after scoring a total of six victories and two more podium finishes.

Calendar

The calendar for the 2013 season featured twelve rallies, which were drawn from the 2012 European Rally Championship and Intercontinental Rally Challenge calendars. A final calendar of thirteen events was confirmed on 15 December 2012,^[1] however in April 2013 Rally San Marino lost its place on the calendar.^[2]

Round	Dates	Rally name	Surface
1	16–19 January	Internationale Jänner Rallye	Mixed
2	1–3 February	Rally Liepāja-Ventspils	Mixed
3	21–23 March	Rally Islas Canarias El Corte Inglés	Tarmac
4	25–27 April	SATA Rallye Açores	Gravel
5	16–18 May	Tour de Corse	Tarmac
6	27–29 June	GEKO Ypres Rally	Tarmac
7	25–27 July	Sibiu Rally Romania	Gravel
8	30 August–1 September	Barum Czech Rally Zlín	Tarmac
9	13–15 September	Rally Poland	Gravel
10	26–28 September	Croatia Rally	Tarmac
11	10–12 October	Rallye Sanremo	Tarmac
12	7–9 November	Rallye International du Valais	Tarmac

Selected entries

The following teams and drivers represent the major entries participating in the 2013 season:

Constructor	Car	Entrant	Driver	Co-driver	Rounds
Škoda	Škoda Fabia S2000	Škoda Motorsport[3]	Jan Kopecký[3]	Pavel Dresler[3]	1, 3–5, 7–10
			Ricardo Moura	Sancho Eiró	4
			Freddy Loix	Frédéric Miclotte	6
			Esapekka Lappi	Janne Ferm	8, 11–12
			Sepp Wiegand	Frank Christian	8
		BRR Team[3]	Raimund Baumschlager[3][4]	Klaus Wicha[3]	1
			Henk Lategan	Barry White	10
		GPD Mit Metal Racing Team	Antonín Tlusťák	Jan Škaloud	1
				Lukáš Vyoral	2–10
				Ladislav Kučera	12
			Jaroslav Orsák	Lukáš Kostka	12
		Czech National Team	Jan Černý	Pavel Kohout	1–2, 4
		AK Rallysport Brno	Jaromír Tarabus	Daniel Trunkát	1, 8
		Eurosol Racing Team Hungary	János Puskádi	Barnabás Gódor	2–4, 7, 10–11
		Wallenwein Rallye Sport	Mark Wallenwein	Stefan Kopczyk	4
		Autostal Duindistel	Pieter Tsjoen	Bernd Casier	6, 10
		Napoca Rally Academy	Marco Tempestini	Lucio Baggio	7
		Škoda România Motorsport	Dan Gîrtofan	Adrian Berghea	7
		Adell Mogul Racing Team	Roman Kresta	Petr Gross	8
		Rufa Sport	Grzegorz Grzyb	Daniel Siatkowski	9
		AKK Sveta Nedelja	Juraj Šebalj	Toni Klinc	10
		S.A. Motorsport Italia	Umberto Scandola	Guido D'Amore	11
Peugeot	Peugeot 207 S2000	Ateneo[3]	Bryan Bouffier[3]	Olivier Fournier[3]	1
				Xavier Panseri	4–5, 7–9, 11
				Lara Vanneste	6
		Kronos Racing[5]	François Delecour[5]	Dominique Savignoni[3]	1–2, 5–7
		Delimax Team	Pavel Valoušek[3][4]	Lukáš Kostka	1
		Synthos Cersanit Rally Team[3]	Michał Sołowow[3]	Maciek Baran[3]	1
		Delta Rally	Valter Gentilini	Gianni Marchi	1
			Dino Serafino Tolfo	Mauro Marchiori	1
			Bruno Magalhães	Nuno Rodrigues da Silva	4
			Jean-Michel Raoux	Francis Mazotti	4–5, 7
				Laurent Magat	10, 12
			Jean-Marc Manzagol	Etienne Patrone	5
		Saintéloc Racing	Craig Breen[6]	David Moynihan[6]	2
				Paul Nagle	3–6
				Lara Vanneste	9, 11–12
			Jean-Matthieu Leandri	Renaud Jamoul	3, 5, 11
				Fabrice Gordon	6
			Jérémi Ancian	Gilles De Turckheim	3–5, 9
				Olivier Vitrani	11–12
		Autostal Duindistel	Melisa Debackere	Cindy Cokelaere	6
			Davy Vanneste	Denis Squedin	6
		Tagai Racing Technology	Maciek Rzeznik	Przemek Mazur	9
		QHR Team	Tomasz Kuchar	Daniel Dymurski	9
		Movisport	Giandomenico Basso	Mitia Dotta	11
		F.P.F. Sport	Paolo Andreucci	Anna Andreussi	11
		United Rally Management	Alessandro Perico	Fabrizio Carrara	11
		Racing Lions	Stefano Albertini	Simone Scattolin	11
		Lugano Racing Team	Nicolas Althaus	Alain Ioset	12
			Sébastien Carron	Lucien Revaz	12
			Pascal Perroud	Quentin Marchand	12
		Scuderia Zero4 Piu	Gregoire Hotz	Pietro Ravasi	12
	Peugeot 208 R2	Peugeot Černý Racing	Jan Černý	Pavel Kohout	8
Mitsubishi	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX R4	DiTech Racing Team	Beppo Harrach	Leopold Welsersheimb	1
		Sports Racing Technologies	Vasiliy Gryazin	Dmitry Chumak	2
		GPD Mit Metal Racing Team	Jaroslav Orsák	David Šmeidler	4–6
				Lukáš Kostka	7–9
			Robert Kořístka		10
		Napoca Rally Academy	Bogdan Marişca	Sebastian Itu	5
		Botka Rally Team Kft.	Dávid Botka	Péter Mihalik	7
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	GPD Mit Metal Racing Team	Jaroslav Orsák	David Šmeidler	1–2
			Robert Kořístka	Michal Drozd	8
		Gassner Motorsport	Stig Blomqvist	Robert Jakobsson	1
		Napoca Rally Academy	Andrea Smiderle	Gianni Marchi	4
			Bogdan Marişca	Sebastian Itu	7, 10
			Horaţiu Savu	Alexandru Giuşcă	7
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X	Autostils Rally Technica	Alexey Lukyanuk	Alexey Arnautov	2
			Rokas Kvaraciejus	Mindaugas Čepulis	2
		Vallino Rally Team	Edwin Keleti	Botond Csomortani	4, 7
		The Boar — Proracing	Vitaliy Pushkar	Ivan Mishyn	6
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X R4	Autostils Rally Technica	Siim Plangi	Marek Sarapuu	2
		Prodrive	Gergely Szabo	Karoly Borbely	2, 7
		The Boar — Proracing	Vitaliy Pushkar	Ivan Mishyn	2, 4, 7
			Artem Nazarov	Sergei Larens	4
		Autostal Atlantic	Andy Lefevere	Andy Vangheluwe	6
		Vallino Rally Team	Valentin Porcișteanu	Dan Dobre	7
		Ataka Racing	Dominykas Butvilas	Renatas Vaitkevičius	9
		Kathrein Renn und Rallye Team	Hermann Gassner	Ursula Mayrhofer	10
Mini	Mini John Cooper Works S2000	EuroOil Invelt Team	Václav Pech	Petr Uhel	1, 8
		Adapta Motorsport	Raimonds Kisiels	Arnis Ronis	2
		Canarias Sport Club	Luis Monzón	Jose Carlos Deniz	3
		First Motorsport	Stéphane Sarrazin	Jacques-Julien Renucci	5
Subaru	Subaru Impreza R4[4]	Lotos Rally Team[3]	Kajetan Kajetanowicz[4]	Jarosław Baran[3]	1
		Turán Motorsport SE	Frigyes Turán	Gábor Zsíros	1–2
		Napoca Rally Academy	Marco Tempestini	Dorin Pulpea	2, 4–5, 9
				Lucio Baggio	6, 8, 10
			Simone Tempestini	Sergiu Itu	2, 4
				Dorin Pulpea	7, 10
			Andrea Smiderle	Mauro Marchiori	7
		Stohl Racing	Andreas Aigner	Jürgen Heigl	3, 5–6
				Barbara Watzl	10–12
			László Vizin	Gábor Zsíros	3, 5, 10, 12
			Toshihiro Arai	Anthony McLoughlin	7–9, 11
		Platinum Subaru Rally Team	Wojciech Chuchała	Kamil Heller	9
			Michał Bebenek	Grzegorz Bebenek	9
		Lugano Racing Team	Florian Gonon	Michel Horgnies	12
	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Napoca Rally Academy	Alessandro Bruschetta	Justin Bardini	4
			Adrian Drăgan	Valentin Brădăţeanu	7
			Simone Tempestini	Dorin Pulpea	8
Ford	Ford Fiesta RRC	Autotek Motorsport[7]	Jari Ketomaa[7]	Kaj Lindström	2
		Stohl Racing	Daniel Oliveira	António Costa	3
				Carlos Magalhães	5
		AT Rally Team	Oleksiy Tamrazov	Pavlo Cherepin	3, 5
			Bernardo Sousa	Hugo Magalhães	4
		Team Emap Yacco	Julien Maurin	Nicolas Klinger	5
		Fuckmatié World Rally Team	Lorenzo Bertelli	Mitia Dotta	5
		Synthos Cersanit Rally Team	Michał Sołowow	Sebastian Rozwadowski	6, 9
		Lotto Team	Krzysztof Hołowczyc	Lukasz Kurzeja	9
		AK Delta Timing	Daniel Šaškin	Damir Bruner	10
		Scuderia Zero4 Piu	Olivier Burri	André Saucy	12
	Ford Fiesta S2000	Symtech Racing	Hayden Paddon	John Kennard	6
		AT Rally Team	Mikko Pajunen	Janne Perälä	6
		Kobus Tuning	Hermen Kobus	Erik de Wild	6
		Printsport Racing	Yagiz Avci	Bahadir Gucenmez	9
		Inter Cars Castrol TRW	Maciek Oleksowicz	Michał Kusnierz	9
		Sport Racing Technologies	Vasily Gryazin	Dimitry Chumak	9, 11–12
	Ford Fiesta R5	Rufa Sport	Tomáš Kostka	Miroslav Houšť	8
		Delimax Team	Pavel Valoušek	Martina Škardová	8
		Lotos Rally Team	Kajetan Kajetanowicz	Jarosław Baran	9
			Michał Kościuszko	Maciek Szczepaniak	9
		MM Motorsport	Martin Kangur	Andres Ots	9
		Globul Rally Team	Krum Donchev	Petar Yordanov	10
Citroën	Citroën DS3 RRC	PH Sport	Robert Kubica[8]	Maciek Baran	3–5, 9
Renault	Renault Mégane RS	Renault Sport Technologies	Robert Consani	Thibault Gorczyca	3, 5–6, 8
				Nicolas Klinger	10–11
				Vincent Landais	12
			Germain Bonnefis	Olivier Fournier	3, 5–6, 8, 10–11
			Alain Pyrame	Florent Lacroux	11
			Romain Salinas	Benjamin Micheli	12

Results

Round	Rally name	Podium finishers
		Rank	Driver	Car	Time
1	Internationale Jänner Rallye (3–5 January) — Results and report	1	Jan Kopecký	Škoda Fabia S2000	2:35:45.3
		2	Bryan Bouffier	Peugeot 207 S2000	2:35:45.8
		3	Raimund Baumschlager	Škoda Fabia S2000	2:37:03.4
2	Rally Liepāja-Ventspils (1–3 February) — Results and report	1	Jari Ketomaa	Ford Fiesta RRC	2:08:15.7
		2	Craig Breen	Peugeot 207 S2000	2:08:46.7
		3	François Delecour	Peugeot 207 S2000	2:11:03.2
3	Rally Islas Canarias El Corte Inglés (21–23 March) — Results and report	1	Jan Kopecký	Škoda Fabia S2000	2:24:30.9
		2	Craig Breen	Peugeot 207 S2000	2:26:23.3
		3	Luis Monzón	Mini John Cooper Works S2000	2:27:49.8
4	SATA Rallye Açores (25–27 April) — Results and report	1	Jan Kopecký	Škoda Fabia S2000	2:26:32.2
		2	Craig Breen	Peugeot 207 S2000	2:27:04.4
		3	Ricardo Moura	Škoda Fabia S2000	2:27:31.0
5	Tour de Corse (16–18 May) — Results and report	1	Bryan Bouffier	Peugeot 207 S2000	2:41:58.2
		2	Jan Kopecký	Škoda Fabia S2000	2:42:38.0
		3	Stéphane Sarrazin	Mini John Cooper Works S2000	2:43:35.8
6	GEKO Ypres Rally (27–29 June) — Results and report	1	Freddy Loix	Škoda Fabia S2000	2:32:19.4
		2	Bryan Bouffier	Peugeot 207 S2000	2:33:40.4
		3	Craig Breen	Peugeot 207 S2000	2:34:11.9
7	Sibiu Rally Romania (25–27 July) — Results and report	1	Jan Kopecký	Škoda Fabia S2000	2:18:07.8
		2	François Delecour	Peugeot 207 S2000	2:21:10.6
		3	Toshihiro Arai	Subaru Impreza R4	2:24:11.4
8	Barum Czech Rally Zlín (30 August – 1 September) — Results and report	1	Jan Kopecký	Škoda Fabia S2000	2:15:23.0
		2	Václav Pech jr	Mini John Cooper Works S2000	2:16:24.6
		3	Jaromír Tarabus	Škoda Fabia S2000	2:17:55.7
9	Rally Poland (13–15 September) — Results and report	1	Kajetan Kajetanowicz	Ford Fiesta R5	1:58:40.6
		2	Bryan Bouffier	Peugeot 207 S2000	1:59:03.9
		3	Jan Kopecký	Škoda Fabia S2000	2:00:09.0
10	Croatia Rally (26—28 September) — Results and report	1	Jan Kopecký	Škoda Fabia S2000	2:23:11.0
		2	Andreas Aigner	Subaru Impreza R4	2:25:06.6
		3	Hermann Gassner	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X R4	2:25:20.8
11	Rallye Sanremo (10–12 October) — Results and report	1	Giandomenico Basso	Peugeot 207 S2000	2:37:37.3
		2	Esapekka Lappi	Škoda Fabia S2000	2:39:20.3
		3	Alessandro Perico	Peugeot 207 S2000	2:39:24.4
12	Rallye International du Valais (7–9 November) — Results and report	1	Esapekka Lappi	Škoda Fabia S2000	3:13:42.8
		2	Olivier Burri	Ford Fiesta RRC	3:17:11.0
		3	Craig Breen	Peugeot 207 S2000	3:17:19.0

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

• For the drivers' championship, only the best four results from the first six rallies and the best four results from the remaining six rallies could be retained by each driver. Points are awarded on a 25–18–15–12–10–8–6–4–2–1 scale, with bonus points awarded on a 7–6–5–4–3–2–1 scale, to the top seven drivers on each leg of a rally, provided the leg covers at least 25% of the total rally length.^[9]

Pos Driver JÄN LIE CAN AZO COR YPR ROM ZLÍ POL CRO SAN VAL Points 1 Jan Kopecký 113 113 114 213 114 113 310 114 287 2 Bryan Bouffier 213 DNS 113 212 Ret DNS 212 48 149 3 Craig Breen 212 210 212 49 311 71 Ret2 37 145 4 François Delecour 73 38 56 DNS 29 75 5 Esapekka Lappi Ret 28 113 64 6 Andreas Aigner 46 71 113 211 11 Ret6 57 7 Kajetan Kajetanowicz 64 113 50 8 Václav Pech 48 211 49 9 Jari Ketomaa 114 39 10 Giandomenico Basso 113 38 11 Freddy Loix 112 37 12 Jérémi Ancian Ret4 56 Ret 22 Ret 45 37 13 Jaroslav Orsák 8 9 Ret 12 Ret 72 72 DNS 55 37 14 Olivier Burri 210 28 15 Jaromír Tarabus 9 38 25 16 Michał Sołowow Ret 64 65 25 17 Luis Monzón 39 24 18 Ricardo Moura 39 24 19 Stéphane Sarrazin 39 24 20 Hermann Gassner Jr. 39 24 21 Toshihiro Arai 38 Ret 13 19 23 22 Raimund Baumschlager 38 23 23 Alessandro Perico 38 23 24 Pieter Tsjoen DNS 410 22 25 Jan Černý Ret 48 Ret 12 20 26 Bruno Magalhães 48 20 27 Sepp Wiegand 46 18 28 Michał Kościuszko 46 18 29 Robert Kubica Ret7 62 Ret Ret 17 30 Marco Tempestini 20 10 16 32 43 27 15 16 31 Germain Bonnefis 53 9 12 111 Ret WD 16 32 Beppo Harrach 56 16 33 Andy Lefevere 43 15 34 David Botka 55 15 35 Roman Kresta 55 15 36 Krzysztof Hołowczyc 55 15 37 Henk Lategan 55 15 38 Paolo Andreucci 67 15 39 Stefano Albertini 54 14 40 Andras Hadik 8 Ret 62 14 41 Valentin Porcişteanu 66 14 42 Hermen Kobus 53 13 43 János Puskádi 22 73 11 8 14 18 13 44 Pavel Valoušek 101 87 12 45 Vasiliy Gryazin 133 15 93 10 Ret4 8 46 Raimonds Kisiels 52 12 47 Julien Maurin 64 12 48 Nicolas Althaus 64 12 49 Vytautas Švedas 63 Ret 11 50 Miroslav Jakes 63 11 51 Gorka Antxustegi 61 9 52 Antonin Tlusták Ret 17 10 9 11 9 9 9 DNS Ret Ret 9 53 Aleks Humar 72 8 54 Florian Gonon 72 8 55 Jean-Mathieu Leandri 8 Ret 8 Ret Ret Ret 8 56 Melissa Debackere 71 7 57 Aivis Egle 7 6 58 Alessandro Bruschetta 7 6 59 Federico Gasperetti 7 6 60 Zbigniew Staniszewski 81 5 61 Edwin Keleti Ret Ret5 5 62 Hayden Paddon Ret5 5 63 Alexey Lukyanuk Ret5 5 64 Umberto Scandola Ret5 5 65 Raul Jeets 8 4 66 Luis Rego 8 4 67 Daniel Saskin 8 4 68 Alex Vittalini 8 4 69 Pascal Perroud 8 4 70 Dan Gârtofan Ret4 4 71 Bernardo Sousa Ret3 3 72 Juraj Sebalj Ret3 3 73 Robert Consani 9 Ret Ret Ret 12 Ret Ret 2 74 Jani Trcek 9 2 75 Michele Tassone 9 2 76 Sylvain Michel 9 2 77 Jean Michel Raoux Ret Ret1 10 Ret DNS 2 78 Davy Vanneste Ret2 2 79 Zoltán Bessenyey 10 1 80 Sebastian Barbu 10 Ret 25 1 81 Vitaliy Pushkar 10 Ret 1 82 David Croes 10 1 83 Robert Koristka 10 Ret 1 84 Maciej Oleksowicz 10 1 85 Romain Salinas 10 1 86 Mark Wallenwein 131 1 87 Andrea Nucita 151 1 88 Jean-Marc Manzagol Ret1 1 89 Siim Plangi Ret1 1 Pos Driver JÄN LIE CAN AZO COR YPR ROM ZLÍ POL CRO SAN VAL Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (DNF) Black Excluded (EX) Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Cancelled (C) Blank Withdrew entry before the event (WD)

References

1. 1 2 "FIA European Rally Championship calendar for 2013 confirmed". rally-erc.com. Eurosport. 15 December 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2012. 
2. ↑ Beer, Matt (30 April 2013). "San Marino Rally loses place on 2013 ERC schedule". Autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 14 May 2013. 
3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Final Entrylist 30. Jännerrallye 2013 ERC" (PDF). Retrieved 1 January 2013. 
4. 1 2 3 4 "National champions set for FIA ERC season-opener in Austria". rally-erc.com. Eurosport. 18 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2012. 
5. 1 2 "Francois Delecour set for 10-event ERC programme". Autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012. 
6. 1 2 "Breen named as Peugeot factory driver". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 18 January 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013. 
7. 1 2 Beer, Matt (7 January 2013). "Jari Ketomaa gets drive for snow WRC and ERC rallies". Autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 7 January 2013. 
8. ↑ "Robert Kubica opts for the Citroën DS3 RRC". Citroën Racing. Citroën. 4 March 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2013. 
9. ↑ "2013 FIA Regional Rally Sporting Regulations" (PDF). FIA.com. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 7 December 2012. p. 13. Retrieved 5 January 2013. 

External links

• Official website