2016 National Rally Champions

[Rally Power]

France: Sylvain Michel / Lara Vanneste and Jerome Degout – Skoda Fabia R5 / Team 2C Yacco

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France: Sylvain Michel / Lara Vanneste and Jerome Degout – Skoda Fabia R5 / Team 2C Yacco

You're welcome :p
I'll add some champions I know, but without co-driver as I don't know if those championships have also "codriver champion". (pardon for the special characters missing)

FIA ERC: Kajetan Kajetanowicz (Poland) - Ford Fiesta R5
FIA Africa: Don Smith (Kenya) - Subaru Impreza N16
Austria: Hermann Neubauer - Ford Fiesta WRC
Belgium: Freddy Loix - Skoda Fabia R5
Czech Republic: Jan Kopecky - Skoda Fabia R5
Denmark: Esben Hegelund - Skoda Fabia R5
Estonia: Egon Kaur - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
Finland: Juha Salo - Peugeot 208 T16
Hungary: Norbert Herczig - Skoda Fabia R5
New Zealand: David Holder - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII
Norway: Anders Grondal - Ford Fiesta R5
Romania: Simone Tempestini - Ford Fiesta R5
Slovakia: Pavel Jr Valousek (Czech Republic) - Skoda Fabia R5
South Africa: Leeroy Poulter - Toyota Yaris S2000
Spain: Cristian Garcia Martinez - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X
Sweden: Per-Gunnar Andersson - Skoda Fabia WRC
Switzerland: Sebastien Carron - Ford Fiesta R5
Ukraine: Oleksandr Kozlov - Subaru Impreza N12
United Kingdom: Elfyn Evans - Ford Fiesta R5
USA: David Higgins (UK) - Subaru WRX

[Rally Power]

You're welcome :p
I'll add some champions I know

Well done Focus. Job almost finished...;)

On R5's national score so far we have: Skoda 5; Ford 4; Peugeot 1; Citroen 0. Nice to see Evos and Imprezas still alive and kicking!

[Jarek Z]

On R5's national score so far we have: Skoda 5; Ford 4; Peugeot 1; Citroen 0. Nice to see Evos and Imprezas still alive and kicking!

1 point for Peugeot and 1 for Subaru!

Turkey:
Yağiz Avci (TR) - Peugeot 208 T16

Russia:
Siergiej Uspienskij (RUS) - Subaru Impreza

[Rally Power]

No points for R5's on these two...

Bulgaria:
Plamen Staykov - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX

Luxemburg:
Steve Fernandes - Peugeot 207 S2000

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Scotland: Jock Armstrong - Subaru Impreza N11
Northern Ireland: Derek McGarrity - Ford Fiesta WRC

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Lebanon: Tamer Ghandour - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X (trivia: if I'm not mistaking first Lebanese championship not won by one of the Feghali brothers since 2003, but still on a car tuned by Motortune, owned by Feghali :) )

[Ucci]

Slovenia : Alex Humar with Clio R3T. It is a big shame to have a winning car from group R3, as in a "normal" championship with "normal" car park (here I mean few R5 and S2000) such car can not come under five fastest cars in any event....but this is our reality.....
Of course this has nothning to do with Alex, he is a great driver(already 5th time national champion).

[Rally Power]

Ireland (National): Roy White - Ford Fiesta WRC

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Netherlands: Jasper Van den Heuvel - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X

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Greece: Yorgo Philippedes - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
Cyprus: Christos Demosthenous - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
Iceland: Daniel Sigurdarson - Subaru Impreza N12

(can anyone confirm Greece and Cyprus?)

[electroliquid]

Lithuania: Janis Vorobjovs (Latvia) - Mitsubishi Mirage RS Proto

[dupanton]

French gravel Championship: Jean-Marie Cuoq
French tarmac Championship: Sylvain Michel

2nd Division Championship: not decided yet.

Coupe de France (sort of 3th level in France): Raphael Astier (Porsche 996 GT3)

[Jarek Z]

1 point for Ford in Italy!
Giandomenico Basso - Lorenzo Granai - Ford Fiesta R5

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Portugal: José Pedro Fontes - Citroen DS3 R5
Serbia: Vladica Rabrenovic - Renault Clio R3

[CWJ]

Germany: Fabian Kreim / Frank Christian - BRR Skoda Fabia R5

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Latvia: K.Rovanpera (Finland) - Škoda Fabia R5

[Rally Power]

Updated R5 national champs score: Fabia 7; Fiesta 5; DS 2; 208 2.

[Jarek Z]

0,5 point for Skoda and 0,5 point for Ford in Poland:
Grzegorz Grzyb - Ford Fiesta R5 / Skoda Fabia R5 - Polish champion 2016!

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0,5 point for Skoda and 0,5 point for Ford in Poland:
Grzegorz Grzyb - Ford Fiesta R5 / Skoda Fabia R5 - Polish champion 2016!

I'd give the point to Ford, he used the Fabia only in one round ;)

[Rally Power]

0,66/0,33 if he enter the last round on the Skoda...;)

Btw, just 3 Euro national champs left: Belaruss, Bosnia and Croatia...how about looking for other parts of the globe?

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0,66/0,33 if he enter the last round on the Skoda...;)

on ewrc-results it says he entered with 208 R2... strange choice, maybe because he's already champion?
http://www.ewrc-results.com/startlist.php?e=29848&t=Rajd-Arlamow-2016

[Mirek]

Is his appeal against disqualification in the last round already confirmed?

[br21]

Is his appeal against disqualification in the last round already confirmed?

Yes, he saved his 3rd place, only needs to pay some small financial penalty.
He entered with 208 R2 for last rally as anyway he will be champion as non of his opponents who can still fight with him entered that event.

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Croatia: Juraj Sebalj - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX

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(not a proper national championship, but worth mentioning)
Asia-Pacific: Gaurav Gill (India) - Skoda Fabia R5

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Argentina: Marcos Ligato - Chevrolet Agile MR

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Japan: Norihiko Katsuta - Subaru WRX STI

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Kenya: Tapio Laukkanen (Finland) - Subaru Impreza WRX 4 D R4

[Mirek]

According to info from Rally Australia thread the new Australian Champion is Molly Taylor.

[Jarek Z]

Molly Taylor? This slow driving woman?

[Mirek]

She just finished 13th overall in Rally Australia behind top 3 WRC2 competitors while she was driving a Gr.N car.

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CODASUR: Gustavo Saba (Paraguay) - Skoda Fabia R5
Uruguay: Rodrigo Zeballos - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X

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Brazil: Ulysses Bertholdo - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X
Mexico: Emilio Velazquez - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX

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Chile: Luis Ignacio Rosselot - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X
Malaysia: Karamjit Singh - Proton Wira 4WD

and a correction (website with rankings is confusing)
Cyprus: Stavros Antoniou - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX

[Leon]

In Cyprus is Christos Demosthenous - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX

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Canada: Antoine L'Estage - Subaru WRX STI
Paraguay: Gustavo Saba - Skoda Fabia R5

The last two championship I follow are China (very difficult to find info about it) and Thailand (2016 championship will actually end in late January 2017), so these might be the last champions I provide you for this year :)

[Rally Power]

Nice work Focus!

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I collect national rally champions of many countries, so if anyone is interested in those lists, let me know :) For sure they're not 100% accurate but since it's not info easy to get, I'd be glad to share it.

[Rally Power]

Nice chart from Skoda! Hope MSport can sort a similar one...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Czk5M0uXAAAA7lH.jpg

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Last update for 2016 champs by me :) the more the country is "exotic" the more info is scarce, so any correction is welcome:
China (only Chinese drivers eligible): Han Han - Subaru XV
Indonesia (as far as I understand, the rally championship was replaced by a rallysprint championship, at for 2016): Rizal Sungkar - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X
Peru (ACP): Nicolas Traverso - Toyota Hilux (Mk8)
Thailand: Fan Fan (China) - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X

[TheFlyingTuga]

Got to say that I loved the Subaru XV. China as a very cool selection of rallycars, with the Golf, this Subaru (http://vtcar.com/projects/vt15xv-vermont-sportscar-2016-subaru-xv/) and the BAIC Senova D50! Is there a link where we can find results and pictures.

BTW, gotta love a Toyota Hillux in Tarmac Rally Spec

http://cde.peru.com/ima/0/1/5/1/8/1518791/611x458/caminos-inca.jpg

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Is there a link where we can find results and pictures.


It's great to see different rally cars in different countries :) and for China Rally Championship, you can find some few info here: http://www.autosports.org.cn/
It's not easy if one doesn't speak Chinese though.

[tolis]

Yorgo Philippedes - Greece (confirmation)
Gerardo Moreno - Peugeot 206 RC - Costa Rica
Abdullah Al Qassimi - UAE