2025 World Rally Championship

The 2025 FIA World Rally Championship is the fifty-third occurrence of the World Rally Championship, an international rallying series organised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and WRC Promoter GmbH. Teams and crews compete for the World Rally Championships for Drivers, Co-drivers and Manufacturers. Crews are free to compete in cars complying with Groups Rally1 to Rally5 regulations; however, only manufacturers competing with Rally1 cars are eligible to score points in the manufacturers' championship. The championship began in January 2025 with the Monte Carlo Rally and is set to conclude in November 2025 with the calendar newcomer Rally Saudi Arabia. The series is supported by the WRC2 and WRC3 categories at every round of the championship and by Junior WRC at selected events.

2025 FIA World Rally Championship

Previous

2024

Next

2026

Support series:
FIA WRC2 Championship
FIA WRC3 Championship
FIA Junior WRC Championship

Elfyn Evans is the current drivers' championship leader.

Scott Martin is the current co-drivers' championship leader.

Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT (GR Yaris Rally1 pictured) is the current manufacturers' championship leader.

Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe are the reigning drivers' and co-drivers' champions, having secured their first championship titles at the 2024 Rally Japan. Toyota are the defending manufacturers' champions.

After the third round, Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin respectively lead the drivers' and co-drivers' championship over Neuville and Wydaeghe by thirty-six points. Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja are third, a further three points behind. In the manufacturers' championship, the reigning manufacturers' champions Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT hold a twenty-six-point lead over Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, with M-Sport Ford WRT in third.

Calendar

A map showing the locations of the rallies in the 2025 championship. Event headquarters are marked with black dots.

The 2025 season is scheduled to be contested over fourteen rounds crossing Europe, Africa, South America and Asia.

Round	Start date	Finish date	Rally	Rally headquarters	Surface	Stages	Distance	Ref.
1	23 January	26 January	Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo	Gap, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France	Mixed[a]	18	343.80 km	[1]
2	13 February	16 February	Rally Sweden	Umeå, Västerbotten County, Sweden	Snow	18	300.22 km	[2]
3	20 March	23 March	Safari Rally Kenya	Nairobi, Nakuru County, Kenya	Gravel	21	384.86 km	[3]
4	24 April	27 April	Rally Islas Canarias	Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain	Tarmac	18	301.30 km	[4]
5	15 May	18 May	Rally de Portugal	Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal	Gravel	24	344.40 km	[5]
6	5 June	8 June	Rally Italia Sardegna	Olbia, Sardinia, Italy	Gravel	16	324.64 km	[6]
7	26 June	29 June	Acropolis Rally Greece	Lamia, Central Greece, Greece	Gravel	17	341.43 km	[7]
8	17 July	20 July	Rally Estonia	Tartu, Tartu County, Estonia	Gravel	TBA	TBA
9	31 July	3 August	Rally Finland	Jyväskylä, Central Finland, Finland	Gravel	20	307.34 km	[8]
10	28 August	31 August	Rally del Paraguay	Encarnación, Itapúa, Paraguay	Gravel	TBA	TBA
11	11 September	14 September	Rally Chile	Concepción, Biobío, Chile	Gravel	TBA	TBA
12	16 October	19 October	Central European Rally	Bad Griesbach, Bavaria, Germany	Tarmac	TBA	TBA
13	6 November	9 November	Rally Japan	Toyota, Aichi, Japan	Tarmac	TBA	TBA
14	27 November	30 November	Rally Saudi Arabia	Jeddah, Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia	Gravel	TBA	TBA
Sources:[9][10]

Calendar changes

The calendar was expanded to fourteen rounds, including five flyaway events.^[11] This was originally planned for the 2024 season,^[12] but WRC Promoter GmbH retained the total of thirteen events in the hopes of attracting more Rally1 entries.^[13]

Rally Islas Canarias is set to join the WRC calendar.

• Rally Estonia is set to return to the championship after missing the 2024 season.^[14] The event is due to replace Rally Latvia on the calendar.^[15]
• Rally Islas Canarias is due to be promoted from the European Rally Championship and become a World Championship event under a two-year deal.^[16] The event is planned to be run on tarmac roads.^[17]
• Rally Saudi Arabia is due to join the championship in 2025 as their organisers signed a ten-year contract with WRC Promoter GmbH.^[18] The rally is planned to be based in Jeddah, and be run as the season finale.^[19]
• Rally del Paraguay is set to become a WRC event from 2025 after signing a multi-year deal, making Paraguay the thirty-eighth nation to host a WRC championship round.^[20]
• The Croatia Rally will not be featured on the calendar for the first time since the event joined the championship in 2021.^[21] However, the event is set to return in 2026.^[22]
• Rally Poland will also be removed from the calendar after making a one-year return to the championship in 2024.^[23]

Entries

The following manufacturers are set to contest the championship under Rally1 regulations.^[24]

Rally1 entries eligible to score manufacturer points

Manufacturer	Entrant	Car	No.	Driver name	Co-driver name	Rounds
Ford	M-Sport Ford WRT	Ford Puma Rally1	13	Grégoire Munster	Louis Louka	1–3
			55	Josh McErlean	Eoin Treacy	1–3
Hyundai	Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT	Hyundai i20 N Rally1	1	Thierry Neuville	Martijn Wydaeghe	1–3
			8	Ott Tänak	Martin Järveoja	1–3
			16	Adrien Fourmaux	Alexandre Coria	1–3
Toyota	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT	Toyota GR Yaris Rally1	17	Sébastien Ogier	Vincent Landais	1
			18	Takamoto Katsuta	Aaron Johnston	2–3
			33	Elfyn Evans	Scott Martin	1–3
			69	Kalle Rovanperä	Jonne Halttunen	1–3
	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT2	Toyota GR Yaris Rally1	5	Sami Pajari	Marko Salminen	1–3
Sources:[25][26][27]

The following crews entered in Rally1 cars as privateers or under arrangement with the manufacturers.

Rally1 entries ineligible to score manufacturer points

Manufacturer	Entrant	Car	No.	Driver name	Co-driver name	Rounds
Ford	M-Sport Ford WRT	Ford Puma Rally1	9	Jourdan Serderidis	Frédéric Miclotte	2–3
			22	Mārtiņš Sesks	Renārs Francis	2
Toyota	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT	Toyota GR Yaris Rally1	18	Takamoto Katsuta	Aaron Johnston	1
			37	Lorenzo Bertelli	Simone Scattolin	2
Sources:[25][26][27]

In detail

M-Sport retained the crew of Grégoire Munster and Louis Louka for another complete season.^[28] They are set to be joined by Josh McErlean and Eoin Treacy as the team's second full-time crew.^[29] The deal was done as a collaboration with Motorsport Ireland Rally Academy.^[30] The crew of Mārtiņš Sesks and Renārs Francis is set to compete on a part-time basis with the team starting with Rally Sweden.^[31]

Hyundai team chief Cyril Abiteboul confirmed that Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja will continue driving for their team in 2025.^[32] Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe extended their contract for one year with the team.^[33] Having won the title in 2024, Neuville is set to compete with the number 1.^[34] Adrien Fourmaux and Alexandre Coria moved from M-Sport to drive a third car full season.^[35]

Sami Pajari is confirmed to be promoted to the top tier by Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT to contest a full season.

Toyota retained the crew of Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen, who are due to return full-time after they contested a partial season in 2024.^[36] They are set to join the crew of Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin and of Takamoto Katsuta and Aaron Johnston as the team's full-time competitors.^[37] Newly-crowned WRC2 champion Sami Pajari, who ran selected races with the team in 2024, was signed with a full-time programme with the team.^[38] However, he would be joined with new co-driver Marko Salminen,^[39] following the departure of Enni Mälkönen at the end of last season.^[40] Sébastien Ogier and Vincent Landais would continue to run a partial season with the team.^[41]

Regulation changes

Technical regulations

Hankook (top) have replaced Pirelli (bottom) as the new official tyre supplier.

South Korean tyre manufacturer Hankook will become the official tyre supplier of the championship, providing tyres to all entrants of four wheel drive cars.^[42] The company replaces Pirelli, who supplied tyres to the championship between 2021 and 2024.^[43] Under the terms of the agreement, Hankook will supply tyres until the end of the 2027 championship.^[44]

Rally1 cars will no longer use the hybrid system introduced in 2022, and subsequently the minimum weight of the cars and the width of the air intake will be reduced to compensate for the change so that cars maintain the same power-to-weight ratio that they had when using the hybrid system.^[45] The decision was made when teams expressed concerns about the increasing costs of repairing the hybrid system.^[46]

Sporting regulations

The points distribution system will be revised for the second consecutive season following widespread criticism of the 2024 point system.^[47] Points will be awarded based on the general top ten classification at the end of the rally in a scale of 25–17–15–12–10–8–6–4–2–1, with additional points awarded to the five fastest crews on Sunday and the five fastest crews in the Power Stage.^[48] Saturday points will be dropped.^[49]

Season report

Opening rounds

The opening round of the 2025 championship saw Ogier and Landais overcame changeable conditions and crowned winners.^[50] The victory also pushed Ogier's Monte winning number into double-digit — a total of ten wins.^[51] Teammates Evans and Martin won the following round, opening a twenty-eight-point lead in the championship race.^[52] That lead was further extended to thirty-six points when they won in Safari.^[53] Katsuta and Johnston were running as high as second during the event, but they rolled their Yaris at the final Power Stage, demoting them to fifth overall.^[54] Despite they managed to finish the rally, they failed to make the car back to service park and therefore recording as retirement.^[55]

Results and standings

Season summary

Round	Event	Winning driver	Winning co-driver	Winning entrant	Winning time	Report	Ref.
1	Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo	Sébastien Ogier	Vincent Landais	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT	3:19:06.2	Report	[56][57]
2	Rally Sweden	Elfyn Evans	Scott Martin	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT	2:33:39.2	Report	[58][59]
3	Safari Rally Kenya	Elfyn Evans	Scott Martin	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT	4:20:03.8	Report	[60][61]
4	Rally Islas Canarias					Report
5	Rally de Portugal					Report
6	Rally Italia Sardegna					Report
7	Acropolis Rally Greece					Report
8	Rally Estonia					Report
9	Rally Finland					Report
10	Rally del Paraguay					Report
11	Rally Chile					Report
12	Central European Rally					Report
13	Rally Japan					Report
14	Rally Saudi Arabia					Report

Scoring system

Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers in each event.^[62] In the manufacturers' championship, teams are eligible to nominate three crews to score points, but these points are only awarded to the top two classified finishers representing a manufacturer and driving a 2022-specification Rally1 car. There are also five bonus points awarded to the winners in an accumulated standings across all Sunday stages, four points for second place, three for third, two for fourth and one for fifth. The same points scale will be awarded to the five fastest crews of the Power Stage as well.^[63]

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Overall	25	17	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1
Sunday	5	4	3	2	1	—
Power Stage	5	4	3	2	1	—

FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers

The driver who recorded a points-scoring classification would be taken into account for the championship regardless of the categories.

Pos. Driver MON SWE KEN ESP POR ITA GRE EST FIN PAR CHL EUR JPN SAU Points 1 Elfyn Evans 217+5+4 125+5+5 125+2+0 88 2 Thierry Neuville 68+1+0 315+2+3 315+4+4 52 3 Ott Tänak 510+0+1 412+3+0 217+3+3 49 4 Sébastien Ogier 125+3+5 33 5 Adrien Fourmaux 315+2+3 400+0+1 160+5+5 31 6 Kalle Rovanperä 412+4+2 510+1+2 Ret0+0+0 31 7 Takamoto Katsuta Ret0+0+0 217+4+4 Ret0+0+0 25 8 Sami Pajari Ret0+0+0 76+0+0 412+0+1 19 9 Grégoire Munster Ret0+0+0 84+0+0 510+0+2 16 10 Mārtiņš Sesks 68+0+0 8 11 Gus Greensmith 120+0+0 68+0+0 8 12 Josh McErlean 76+0+0 460+0+0 101+1+0 8 13 Jan Solans 76+0+0 6 14 Jourdan Serderidis 330+0+0 84+0+0 4 15 Yohan Rossel 84+0+0 4 16 Oliver Solberg 150+0+0 92+0+0 120+0+0 2 17 Fabrizio Zaldivar 140+0+0 92+0+0 2 18 Nikolay Gryazin 92+0+0 2 19 Eric Camilli 101+0+0 1 20 Roope Korhonen 101+0+0 1 Pos. Driver MON SWE KEN ESP POR ITA GRE EST FIN PAR CHL EUR JPN SAU Points Sources:[64][65]

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Top 10 finish Blue Non-top 10 finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Excluded (EX) Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Cancelled (C) Blank Withdrew entry from the event (WD) Notes: Main script – Final position Text below – Points scored from overall, Sunday and the Power Stage

FIA World Rally Championship for Co-Drivers

The co-driver who recorded a points-scoring classification would be taken into account for the championship regardless of the categories.

Pos. Co-driver MON SWE KEN ESP POR ITA GRE EST FIN PAR CHL EUR JPN SAU Points 1 Scott Martin 217+5+4 125+5+5 125+2+0 88 2 Martijn Wydaeghe 68+1+0 315+2+3 315+4+4 52 3 Martin Järveoja 510+0+1 412+3+0 217+3+3 49 4 Vincent Landais 125+3+5 33 5 Alexandre Coria 315+2+3 400+0+1 160+5+5 31 6 Jonne Halttunen 412+4+2 510+1+2 Ret0+0+0 31 7 Aaron Johnston Ret0+0+0 217+4+4 Ret0+0+0 25 8 Marko Salminen Ret0+0+0 76+0+0 412+0+1 19 9 Louis Louka Ret0+0+0 84+0+0 510+0+2 16 10 Renārs Francis 68+0+0 8 11 Eoin Treacy 76+0+0 460+0+0 101+1+0 8 12 Jonas Andersson 120+0+0 68+0+0 8 13 Rodrigo Sanjuan de Eusebio 76+0+0 6 14 Frédéric Miclotte 330+0+0 84+0+0 4 15 Arnaud Dunand 84+0+0 4 16 Elliott Edmondson 150+0+0 92+0+0 120+0+0 2 17 Marcelo Der Ohannesian 140+0+0 92+0+0 2 18 Konstantin Aleksandrov 92+0+0 2 19 Thibault de la Haye 101+0+0 1 20 Anssi Viinikka 101+0+0 1 Pos. Co-driver MON SWE KEN ESP POR ITA GRE EST FIN PAR CHL EUR JPN SAU Points Sources:[64][65]

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Top 10 finish Blue Non-top 10 finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Excluded (EX) Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Cancelled (C) Blank Withdrew entry from the event (WD) Notes: Main script – Final position Text below – Points scored from overall, Sunday and the Power Stage

FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers

Only the best two results of each manufacturer in the respective overall classification by the end of Saturday, accumulated position of all Sunday stages and Power Stage at each rally were taken into account for the championship.

Pos. Manufacturer MON SWE KEN ESP POR ITA GRE EST FIN PAR CHL EUR JPN SAU Points 1 Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 125+0+5 125+5+5 125+3+0 148 217+5+4 217+4+4 Ret0+0+0 NC0+4+0 NC0+0+0 Ret0+0+0 2 Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT 315+3+3 315+2+3 217+0+0 122 412+0+1 412+3+0 315+4+4 NC0+2+0 NC0+0+1 NC0+5+5 3 M-Sport Ford WRT 510+1+0 68+0+0 510+0+2 47 Ret0+0+0 76+0+0 68+2+0 4 Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT2 Ret0+0+0 510+1+0 412+1+1 25 Pos. Manufacturer MON SWE KEN ESP POR ITA GRE EST FIN PAR CHL EUR JPN SAU Points Sources:[64][65]

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Top 10 finish Blue Non-top 10 finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Excluded (EX) Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Cancelled (C) Blank Withdrew entry from the event (WD) Notes: Main script – Final position Text below – Points scored from overall, Sunday and the Power Stage

Notes

1. The Monte Carlo Rally is run on a tarmac and snow surface.