World Rally-Raid Championship

World Rally-Raid Championship

Category	Rally raid
Country	International
Inaugural season	2022
Classes	AUTO: T1, T2, T3, T4, T5 MOTO: RallyGP, Rally2, Rally3, Quad
Drivers' champion	Nasser Al-Attiyah (O/A) Seth Quintero (T3) Rokas Baciuška (T4) Janus van Kasteren (T5)
Co-Drivers' champion	Mathieu Baumel (O/A) Dennis Zenz (T3) Oriol Vidal Montijano (T4) Marcel Snijders (T5)
Riders' champion	Luciano Benavides (RallyGP) Romain Dumontier (Rally2) Ardit Kurtaj (Rally3) Laisvydas Kancius (Quad)
Makes' champion	Toyota Gazoo Racing (FIA) Monster Energy Honda (FIM)
Official website	worldrallyraidchampionship.com
Current season

The World Rally-Raid Championship (officially abbreviated as W2RC) is a rally raid series co-sanctioned by the FIA and FIM and promoted by the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO).^[1][2] The championship's seasons culminate with world championship titles in both automobile and motorcycle categories.

Beginning in 2022, the series replaced both the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies and FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship as the top echelon of the sport of rally raid.^[3] ASO will serve as series promotor for a period of five years.^[1]

The combined World Championship series was conceived as a result of efforts by the ASO, FIA and FIM to harmonize regulations.^[4] After a vote by the World Motorsport Council to officially make rally raid the seventh world championship under the FIA in 2021, they joined with the FIM to combine their respective international cross-country rallying series into a single World Rally-Raid Championship. The ASO, promotor of the Dakar Rally, was chosen by both world-governing bodies as the sole promotor of the series for a period of five years.^[1]

The inaugural World Championship officially kicked off with the 2022 Dakar Rally^[3] and ended in Morocco following revisions to the schedule due to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, forcing the cancellation of that year's Rally Kazakhstan,^[5] and environmental concerns that forced the Andalucia Rally to be rescheduled.^[6] The inaugural winners of the FIA World Rally-Raid Championship were Nasser Al-Attiyah and Mathieu Baumel with Toyota Gazoo Racing as the winning manufacturer;^[7] while Sam Sunderland did likewise in the FIM World Rally-Raid Championship with Monster Energy Honda.^[8][9]

The championship consists primarily of two forms of cross-country rallying:

• Cross-Country Rally: Between four and six timed stages; total distance of 1200km.
• Cross-Country Marathon: More than six timed stages; total distance of 2500km.

The cross-country baja format continues to be contested in the international FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Bajas and FIM Bajas World Cup competitions, separate from the world championship.

The series covers various categories under both the FIA and FIM.^[10][11]

• T1: Prototype Cross-Country Cars
• T2: Series Production Cross-Country Cars
• T3: Lightweight Prototype Cross-Country Vehicles
  • FIA Rally-Raid Championship for T3 drivers and co-drivers.
• T4: Modified Production Cross-Country Side-by-Side Vehicles
  • FIA Rally-Raid Championship for T4 drivers and co-drivers.
• T5: Prototype and Production Cross-Country Trucks
  • FIA Rally-Raid Championship for T5 drivers and co-drivers.

Groups T1, T2, T3 and T4 are eligible for the overall FIA Rally-Raid World Championship titles for drivers, co-drivers, and manufacturers. Additional Group-specific championships are awarded in Groups T3, T4 and T5.

• RallyGP
  • FIM Rally-Raid World Championship for riders and manufacturers
• Rally2
  • FIM Rally-Raid World Cup for Rally2 Riders
  • FIM Rally-Raid Trophy for Juniors
  • FIM Rally-Raid Trophy for Women
  • FIM Rally-Raid Trophy for Seniors
• Rally3
  • FIM Rally-Raid World Cup for Rally3 Riders
  • FIM Rally-Raid Trophy for Juniors
• Quad
  • FIM Rally-Raid World Cup for Quad Riders

Only riders competing in the RallyGP category are eligible for the FIM Rally-Raid World Championship. World Cup titles are available for champions of the Rally2, Rally3, and Quad categories.

Season
	Driver	Co-Driver	Manufacturer
2022	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Mathieu Baumel	Toyota Gazoo Racing
	Sébastien Loeb	Fabian Lurquin	X-Raid Mini JCW Team
	Yazeed Al-Rajhi	Dirk von Zitzewitz	Bahrain Raid Xtreme
2023	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Mathieu Baumel	Toyota Gazoo Racing
	Yazeed Al-Rajhi	Timo Gottschalk	Bahrain Raid Xtreme
	Juan Cruz Yacopini	Daniel Oliveras Carreras	OT3 by G Rally Team

Season
	Rider	Manufacturer
2022	Sam Sunderland	Monster Energy Honda
	Ricky Brabec	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing
	Adrien Van Beveren	Red Bull Gas Gas Factory Racing
2023	Luciano Benavides	Monster Energy Honda
	Toby Price	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing
	Adrien Van Beveren	Husqvarna Factory Racing

Season
	T3 Driver	T3 Co-Driver	T4 Driver	T4 Co-Driver	T5 Driver	T5 Co-Driver
2022	Francisco López	François Cazalet	Rokas Baciuška	Lukasz Laskawiec	Kees Koolen	Wouter De Graaff
	Seth Quintero	Dennis Zenz	Marek Goczał	Gustavo Gugelmin	Martin Macík	František Tomášek
	Cristina Gutiérrez	Juan Pablo Latrach	Austin Jones	Oriol Mena	Tomáš Vrátný	David Švanda
2023	Seth Quintero	Dennis Zenz	Rokas Baciuška	Oriol Vidal	Janus van Kasteren	Marcel Snijders Darek Rodewald
	Mitch Guthrie	Kellon Walch	Shinsuke Umeda	Oriol Mena	Tomáš Vrátný	-
	Austin Jones	Gustavo Gugelmin	Eryk Goczał	Maurizio Dominella	Martin Macík	Bartlomiej Boba Jaromir Martinec

Season
	Rally2 Rider	Rally3 Rider	Quad Rider
2022	Mason Klein	Amine Echiguer	Alexandre Giroud
	Romain Dumontier	Jeremy Miroir	Juraj Varga
	Bradley Cox	Guillaume Borne	Kamil Wiśniewski
2023	Romain Dumontier	Ardit Kurtaj	Laisvydas Kancius
	Paolo Lucci	Alexander Chepurko	Rodolfo Guillioli Schippers
	Jean-Loup Lepan	Cheikh-Yves Jacquemain	Juraj Varga

Season
	Women	Junior (R2)	Senior	Junior (R3)
2022	Mirjam Pol	Mason Klein	Mario Patrao	No Participants
	Sandra Gómez	Konrad Dąbrowski	Franco Picco
	Sara García	Bradley Cox	David McBride
2023	Mirjam Pol	Jean Loup Lepan	Dominique Cizeau Girault	No Participants
	-	Bradley Cox	-
	-	Konrad Dąbrowski	-

• FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Bajas
• FIM Bajas World Cup

• Official website (in English, French, and Spanish)
• Official website - FIA Rally-Raid
• Official website - FIM Rally-Raid