28th season of the FIA World Rally Championship
The 2000 World Rally Championship was the 28th season of the FIA World Rally Championship . The season consisted of 14 rallies. The drivers' world championship was won by Marcus Grönholm in a Peugeot 206 WRC , breaking the streak of Tommi Mäkinen who had won the previous 4 titles for Mitsubishi , ahead of Richard Burns and Carlos Sainz . The manufacturers' title was won by Peugeot , ahead of Ford and Subaru .
Calendar [ edit ] The 2000 championship was contested over fourteen rounds in Europe, Africa, South America and Oceania. Rally China was originally scheduled to be the tenth round of the season but was cancelled after primary sponsor British American Tobacco withdrew from the event. The Cyprus Rally was added to the calendar as a replacement.[1]
Teams and drivers [ edit ] Team Manufacturer Car Tyre No. Driver Co-Driver Rounds Marlboro Mitsubishi Ralliart Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI M 1 Tommi Mäkinen Risto Mannisenmäki All 2 Freddy Loix Sven Smeets All Subaru World Rally Team Subaru Impreza WRC 99 Impreza WRC 2000 P 3 Richard Burns Robert Reid All 4 Juha Kankkunen Juha Repo 1–10, 13–14 Simon Jean-Joseph Jack Boyere 11–12 16 Petter Solberg Phil Mills 11–14 18 Markko Märtin Michael Park 13 Ford Motor Co Ford Focus RS WRC 00 M 5 Colin McRae Nicky Grist All 6 Carlos Sainz Luis Moya All 16 Petter Solberg Phil Mills 3–4, 6–10 18 Piero Liatti Carlo Cassina 11–12 Tapio Laukkanen Kaj Lindström 9, 13–14 SEAT Sport SEAT Córdoba WRC P 7 Didier Auriol Denis Giraudet All 8 Toni Gardemeister Paavo Lukander All 17 Harri Rovanperä Risto Pietiläinen 2, 14 20 Gwyndaf Evans Howard Davies 14 23 Rui Madeira Fernando Prata 4 30 Raphael Sperrer Per Carlsson 9 51 Renaud Verreydt Jean-François Elst 12 Peugeot Esso Peugeot 206 WRC M 9 François Delecour Daniel Grataloup 1–2, 4–8, 10–14 Gilles Panizzi Herve Panizzi 3 Sebastian Lindholm Jukka Aho 9 10 Gilles Panizzi Herve Panizzi 1, 5, 11–12 Marcus Grönholm Timo Rautiainen 2–4, 6–10, 13–14 16 1, 5, 11–12 18 François Delecour Daniel Grataloup 9 19 Adruzilo Lopes Luis Lisboa 3–4 Gilles Panizzi Herve Panizzi 13–14 Škoda Motorsport Škoda Octavia WRC M 11 Armin Schwarz Manfred Hiemer 1, 3–5, 7, 10, 12, 14 12 Luís Climent Alex Romani 1, 3–5, 7, 10, 12, 14 Hyundai World Rally Team Hyundai Accent WRC M 14 Kenneth Eriksson Staffan Parmander 2, 4–9, 11–14 15 Alister McRae David Senior 2, 4–9, 11–14 23 Michael Guest David Green 9, 12–13 Toyota Toyota Corolla WRC M 20 Thomas Rådström Christina Thörner 2, 4 21 Pasi Hagström Tero Gardemeister 2, 4, 9 Pedro Chaves Sergio Paiva 4 22 Neal Bates Coral Taylor 13 24 Henrik Lundgaard Jens-Christian Anker 1, 5, 12 42 Olivier Burri Christophe Hofmann 1, 12 43 Achim Warmbold Antony Warmbold 14
Toyota not counted for the 2000 season in the Manufacturers' championship due to their withdrawal from the sport in 1999 to concentrate on F1.
Results and standings [ edit ] Drivers' championship [ edit ] Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points 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)
Manufacturers' championship [ edit ] Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points 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)
Production World Rally championship [ edit ] Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points 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)
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