Production World Rally Championship

The FIA Production World Rally Championship, or PWRC, was a companion rally series to the World Rally Championship, contested by Group N rally cars.

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Nasser Al-Attiyah driving a Subaru Impreza WRX STI at the 2006 Acropolis Rally.

The series started in 1987 as FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers and obtained the world championship status in 2002. With the introduction of Group R, the PWRC was cancelled at the end of 2012 and was replaced by the World Rally Championship-3 open to 2WD based cars homologated in R1, R2 and R3 classes. Remaining 4WD Group N cars were moved to the new World Rally Championship-2 alongside S2000, RRC, R4 and R5 cars.

History

After the end of the Group B era, the 1987 World Rally Championship was contested by Group A cars. However the FIA established a trophy for Group N cars named FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers contested on the same rounds as the main Championship. Since 2002 the previous FIA Cup was renamed Production World Rally Championship and became a support series to the WRC in selected rounds.[1] The eligible cars were still Group N modified road cars such as the Subaru Impreza WRX and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. Between 2007 and 2009 the PWRC allowed Super 2000 cars alongside regular Group N entries. In 2010 the S2000 cars were moved to a dedicated championship named SWRC (Super 2000 World Championship).


Results

Drivers' Championship
Season Champion[2] 2nd place 3rd place
Driver Car Driver Car Driver Car
PWRC
2012 Benito Guerra Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X Marcos Ligato Subaru Impreza WRX STI Valeriy Gorban Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
2011 Hayden Paddon Subaru Impreza WRX STI Patrik Flodin Subaru Impreza WRX STI Michał Kościuszko Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
2010 Armindo Araújo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X Patrik Flodin Subaru Impreza WRX STI Hayden Paddon Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
2009 Armindo Araújo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Martin Prokop Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Nasser Al-Attiyah Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2008 Andreas Aigner Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Juho Hänninen Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Jari Ketomaa Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2007 Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX STI Gabriel Pozzo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Mark Higgins Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
2006 Nasser Al-Attiyah Subaru Impreza WRX STI Fumio Nutahara Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Mirco Baldacci Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
2005 Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX STI Nasser Al-Attiyah Subaru Impreza WRX STI Marcos Ligato Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2004 Niall McShea Subaru Impreza WRX STI Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX STI Jani Paasonen Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII
2003 Martin Rowe Subaru Impreza WRX STI Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX STI Stig Blomqvist Subaru Impreza WRX STI
2002 Karamjit Singh Proton Pert Kristian Sohlberg Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII Ramón Ferreyros Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII
FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers
2001 Gabriel Pozzo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Manfred Stohl Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI
2000 Manfred Stohl Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Gabriel Pozzo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI
1999 Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V / Evo VI Hamed Al-Wahaibi Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V / Evo VI Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX
1998 Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV / Evo V Manfred Stohl Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo V Luís Climent Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV /
Proton Wira 4WD
1997 Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III Luís Climent Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV Manfred Stohl Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV
1996 Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III /
Subaru Impreza WRX		 Uwe Nittel Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III Pascal Smets Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III
1995 Rui Madeira Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II Jorge Recalde Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II Isolde Holderied Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II
1994 Jesús Puras Ford Escort RS Cosworth Isolde Holderied Mitsubishi Lancer Evo I / Evo II Jorge Recalde Mitsubishi Lancer RS / Evo II
1993 Alex Fassina Mazda 323 GTR António Coutinho Ford Escort RS Cosworth Jarmo Kytölehto Mitsubishi Galant VR-4
1992 Grégoire De Mévius Nissan Sunny GTI-R Hiroshi Nishiyama Nissan Sunny GTI-R Carlos Menem, Jr. Lancia Delta HF Integrale
1991 Grégoire De Mévius Mazda 323 GTX Fernando Capdevila Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4 Carlos Menem, Jr. Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4
Piergiorgio Bedini Lancia Delta Integrale 16V /
Volkswagen Golf GTi 16V
1990 Alain Oreille Renault 5 GT Turbo Gustavo Trelles Lancia Delta Integrale 16V Tommi Mäkinen Mitsubishi Galant VR-4
1989 Alain Oreille Renault 5 GT Turbo Grégoire De Mévius Mazda 323 4WD Gustavo Trelles Lancia Delta Integrale 16V
1988 Pascal Gaban Mazda 323 4WD Jorge Recalde Lancia Delta Integrale Giovanni Del Zoppo Lancia Delta Integrale
1987 Alex Fiorio Lancia Delta HF Integrale Ove Olofsson Lancia Delta HF 4WD /
Audi Coupé Quattro		 Bertrand Balas Lancia Delta HF 4WD
Sören Nilsson Audi Coupé Quattro
Claude Balesi Renault 5 GT Turbo
Evangelos Gallo Toyota Corolla GT
Fredrik Donner Subaru RX Turbo
Franco Cunico Lancia Delta HF 4WD
George Donaldson Ford Sierra RS Cosworth


See also

References
  1. "Production Car World Rally Championship". Jonkka's World Rally Archive. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  2. "FIA Group N Cup/PWRC Championship Winners". WRC. Archived from the original on 27 August 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
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