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WRC

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Established
1973 (51 years old)

First Recorded Event
2015-01-22

Current Season
2023

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Location
Worldwide

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Male

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WRC FORUM8 Rally Japan (21 Nov 24)

Results

WRC Central Europe Rally (17 Oct 24)

WRC Rally Chile Bio Bio (26 Sep 24)

WRC EKO Acropolis Rally Greece (05 Sep 24)

Secto Rally Finland (01 Aug 24)

WRC Tet Rally Latvia (18 Jul 24)

WRC ORLEN 80th Rally Poland Stage 16 (30 Jun 24)

WRC ORLEN 80th Rally Poland Stage 17 (30 Jun 24)

WRC ORLEN 80th Rally Poland Stage 18 (30 Jun 24)

WRC ORLEN 80th Rally Poland Stage 19 (30 Jun 24)

WRC ORLEN 80th Rally Poland Stage 9 (29 Jun 24)

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The World Rally Championship (WRC) is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. The series currently consists of 13 three-day events driven on surfaces ranging from gravel and tarmac to snow and ice. Each rally is split into 15–25 special stages which are run against the clock on closed roads.

The WRC was formed from well-known and popular international rallies, most of which had previously been part of the European Rally Championship and/or the International Championship for Manufacturers, and the series was first contested in 1973. The World Rally Car is the current car specification in the series. It evolved from Group A cars which replaced the banned Group B supercars. World Rally Cars are built on production 1.6-litre four-cylinder cars, but feature turbochargers, anti-lag systems, four-wheel-drive, sequential gearboxes, aerodynamic parts and other enhancements bringing the price of a WRC car to around US$1 million (€700,000 / £500,000) .

The WRC features three support championships, the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC, formerly the WRC Academy), the World Rally Championship 2 (WRC-2, formerly the Super 2000 World Rally Championship), and the World Rally Championship 3 (WRC-3, formerly the Production World Rally Championship) which are contested on the same events and stages as the WRC, but with different regulations. The production car, super 2000 and junior entrants race through the stages after the WRC drivers.

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