2019 Rally Catalunya 55. RallyRACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada | |||
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Round 13 of 14 in the 2019 World Rally Championship
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Rally base | Salou, Tarragona | ||
Dates run | 24 – 27 October 2019 | ||
Start location | Gandesa, Tarragona | ||
Finish location | Baix Camp, Tarragona | ||
Stages | 17 (325.56 km; 202.29 miles)[1] | ||
Stage surface | Gravel / Tarmac | ||
Transport distance | 953.78 km (592.65 miles) | ||
Overall distance | 1,278.86 km (794.65 miles) | ||
Statistics | |||
Crews registered | 64 | ||
Crews | 61 at start, 42 at finish | ||
Overall results | |||
Overall winner | ![]() ![]() ![]() 3:07:39.6 | ||
Power Stage winner | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||
Support category results | |||
WRC-2 winner | ![]() ![]() ![]() 3:16:26.8 |
The 2019 Rally Catalunya (also known as RallyRACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada 2019) was a motor racing event for rally cars which was held over four days between 24 and 27 October 2019.[2] It marks the fifty-fifth running of Rally Catalunya and is the thirteenth round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, the newly created WRC-2 Pro class, World Rally Championship-2, the Spanish national Rally Championship and Peugeot Rally Cup Ibérica championship.[a] The 2019 event is based in Salou in Tarragona, and is contested over seventeen special stages with a total a competitive distance of 325.56 km (202.29 mi).
Nine-time world champions Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena were the defending rally winners. Citroën Total WRT, the team they drove for in 2018, were the defending manufacturers' winners.[4] The Finnish crew of Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen were the defending rally winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category, but they did not defend their titles as they were promoted to the newly created WRC-2 Pro class.[5]
Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul won the rally for the first time in their career. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturers' winners.[6] The Citroën Total crew of Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen won the WRC-2 Pro category, finishing first in the combined WRC-2 category, while the French crew of Eric Camilli and Benjamin Veillas won the wider WRC-2 class.[7]
Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja finished second overall as well as taking the power stage victory, which was enough for them to seal their maiden World Rally Championship titles.[8] This made Tänak the first non-French driver to be World Rally Champion since Petter Solberg won the 2003 World Rally Championship title, ending a run of 5,831 days in which a Sébastien was the current champion. With a 2-3 finish in the Pro category, Škoda Motorsport took the first World Rally Championship-2 Pro manufacturers’ title.[7]
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