2008 Intercontinental Rally Challenge

The 2008 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season was the third season of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. The season consisted of ten rounds and began on April 4, with the Istanbul Rally. The season ended on December 12 with the China Rally. Nicolas Vouilloz won the title ahead of Freddy Loix and Giandomenico Basso.

2008 Intercontinental Rally Challenge
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Calendar
Round Dates Event title Surface
1 April 4–6 Istanbul RallyGravel
2 May 8–10 Rally de PortugalGravel
3 June 27–28 Belgium Ypres Westhoek RallyAsphalt
4 July 11–12 Rally RussiaGravel
5 August 1–2 Rali Vinho da MadeiraAsphalt
6 August 22–24 Barum Czech Rally ZlínAsphalt
7 September 11–13 Rallye Principe de AsturiasAsphalt
8 September 26–28 Rallye San RemoAsphalt
9 October 24–26 Rallye International du ValaisAsphalt
10 December 5–12 China RallyGravel

Selected entries
Entrant Constructor Car Driver Co-driver Rounds
Abarth & C. Spa Abarth Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 Giandomenico Basso Mitia Dotta 1–9
Anton Alén Timo Alanne 1–4, 6–9
Umberto Scandola Guido D'Amore 5, 9
Dario D'Esposito 8
Andrea Navarra Guido D'Amore 8
Alessio Pisi Luca Costantini 8
Renato Travaglia Lorenzo Granai 8
Island Motorsport 1, 3, 5–6
Fiat Motorsport Turkey Volkan Isik Kaan Özşenler 1, 3, 5–6
Procar Daniel Solà Oscar Sanchez 1–4, 7
François Duval Patrick Pivato 2
Cersanit Rally Team Michał Sołowow Maciek Baran 1
Fiat Vodafone José Pedro Fontes António Costa 2, 5
H.F. Grifone SRL Didier Auriol Denis Giraudet 2, 4, 8
Corrado Fontana Carlo Cassina 3
Fiat Auto Eapaña Miguel Fuster José Vincente Medina 7
Scuderia Solferino Rally Olivier Burri Benjamin Veillas 9
Champion Racing Peugeot Peugeot 207 S2000 Jan Kopecký Petr Starý 1–4
Peugeot Team Belux Freddy Loix Robin Buysmans 1–9
Nicolas Vouilloz Nicolas Klinger 1–9
BSA Team Brice Tirabassi Fabrice Gordon 1–5
Racing Lions SRL Luca Rossetti Matteo Chiarcossi 1–3, 5–6, 8–9
Stohl Racing Manfred Stohl Ilka Minor 2
Peugeot Total Bruno Magalhães Mário Castro 2
Carlos Magalhães 5, 7
BF Goodrich Drivers Team Miguel Campos Paulo Babo 2
Patrick Snijers Wim Soenens 3
Pavel Valoušek Zdeněk Hrůza 6
Sergio Vallejo Diego Vallejo 7
Andrea Torlasco Michele Brega 8
Peugeot Total Hungaria János Tóth Robert Tagai 2–3, 6, 9
Cersanit Rally Team Michał Sołowow Maciek Baran 3, 5–6, 8
Kronos Racing Juho Hänninen Mikko Markkula 4
Team de Ralis Olca Alexandre Camacho Pedro Calado 5
Tescoma Rally Team Roman Kresta Petr Gross 6
Peugeot Sport España Enrique García Ojeda Jordi Barrabés 6–7
Luís Monzón José Carlos Déniz 7
Óscar Garré Pablo Marcos 7
Peugeot Sport Polska Bryan Bouffier Xavier Panseri 6, 9
Lugano Racing Team Gregoire Hotz Pietro Ravasi 9
Florian Gonon Sandra Arlettaz 9
Mauro Rally Tuning Mitsubishi Ralliart Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX Giovanni Manfrinato Claudio Condotta 1
Red Bull Rally Team Andreas Aigner Klaus Wicha 2
Bernardo Sousa Carlos Magalhães 2
Ralliart Italy Armindo Araújo Miguel Ramalho 2
Paolo Andreucci Anna Andreussi 2, 8
RRE Sports Juho Hänninen Mikko Markkula 2
Heuvel Motorsport Jasper van den Heuvel Martine Kolman 3
Driving Art Andrey Zhigunov Igor Ter-Oganesiants 4
EuroOil Čepro Czech National Team Václav Pech Petr Uhel 6
B9 Racing Alberto Hevia Alberto Iglesias 7
Guizhou Bailing Team Liu Chao Dong Hongyu Pan 10
Hongjie Wei Shaojun Huang 10
Juha Salo Mika Stenberg 10
Soueast-Motor Wan Yu Rally Team Jarkko Miettinen Mikko Lukka 10
Fan Fan Junwei Fang 10
Jixiang Wu Zhengliang Ke 10
Zhonglin Yang Weipeng Zhang 10
Wuyi Youth Rally Team Jun Xu Shuang Liu 10
Zhixing Yang Xin Guo 10
Autostal Duindistel Volkswagen Volkswagen Polo S2000 Bernd Casier Frédéric Miclotte 3
Belgian VW Club 6, 8
Raphaël Auqueir Cédric Pirotte 3
René Georges Rally Sport Philippe Greiffenberg Laurent Fourcade 9
Bill Gwynne Motorsport MG S2000 Sport Mark Higgins Rory Kennedy 3
Stuart Jones Rallying Stuart Jones George Gwynn 9
Procar Honda Honda Civic Type-R R3 Alessandro Bettega Simone Scattolin 3, 6–9
JAS Motorsport Guy Wilks David Moynihan 4

Drivers standings
  • The best seven scores from each driver count towards the championship.
Pos Driver IST
 POR
 YPR
 RUS
 MAD
 ZLI
 AST
 SAN
 VAL
 CHN
  Pts 
1 Nicolas Vouilloz 2 3 2 5 1 2 2 2 2 58
2 Freddy Loix 8 Ret 1 4 6 1 3 5 1 48
3 Giandomenico Basso Ret 4 6 3 2 Ret 1 1 5 46
4 Luca Rossetti 1 1 3 5 7 3 3 44
5 Anton Alén 3 Ret 11 2 Ret 6 8 6 21
6 Renato Travaglia 4 Ret 4 5 4 19
7 Jan Kopecký 5 2 Ret 6 15
8 Juho Hänninen 5 1 14
9 Bryan Bouffier 3 4 11
10 Jarkko Miettinen 1 10
11 Liu Chao Dong 3 8
12 Alexandre Camacho 3 6
13 Jun Xu 4 6
14 Enrique García Ojeda 13 4 5
15 Bernd Casier 4 5
16 Pavel Valoušek 4 5
17 Fan Fan 6 5
18 Patrick Snijers 5 4
19 Miguel Fuster 5 4
20 János Tóth Ret Ret 6 8 4
21 Bruno Magalhães 6 8 Ret 4
22 Hanping Ma 7 4
23 Daniel Sola 6 Ret Ret Ret Ret 3
24 Alessandro Perico 6 3
25 Zhuoyong Tan 8 3
26 Volkan Isik 7 Ret 11 16 2
27 Brice Tirabassi Ret Ret Ret 7 Ret 2
28 Umberto Scandola 7 Ret Ret 2
29 Manfred Stohl 7 2
30 Jasper van den Heuvel 7 2
31 Sergio Vallejo 7 2
32 Luca Cantamessa 7 2
33 Gregoire Hotz 7 2
34 Jixiang Wu 9 2
35 Andreas Aigner 8 1
36 Josef Peták 8 1
37 Alberto Hevia 8 1
38 Paul Lietaer 9 1
39 Oleg Antropov 9 1
40 Jianrong Jan 11 1
Pos Driver IST
 POR
 YPR
 RUS
 MAD
 ZLI
 AST
 SAN
 VAL
 CHN
  Pts 
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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