Back رالي المكسيك 2019 Arabic رالى المكسيك 2019 ARZ Rallye Mexiko 2019 German Rally México de 2019 Spanish Meksikon ralli 2019 Finnish Rallye du Mexique 2019 French Rally del Messico 2019 Italian Rally van Mexico 2019 Dutch Rajd Meksyku 2019 Polish
| 2019 Rally Mexico 16. Rally Guanajuato Mexico | |||
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Round 3 of 14 in the 2019 World Rally Championship
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 Crews had to face the challenge of Mexico's high-altitude terrain. | |||
| Host country |  Mexico | ||
| Rally base | León, Guanajuato | ||
| Dates run | 7 – 10 March 2019 | ||
| Start location | Street Stage GTO, Guanajuato | ||
| Finish location | Las Minas, Guanajuato | ||
| Stages | 21 (316.51 km; 196.67 miles)[1] | ||
| Stage surface | Gravel | ||
| Transport distance | 689.79 km (428.62 miles) | ||
| Overall distance | 1,006.30 km (625.29 miles) | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Crews registered | 24 | ||
| Crews | 23 at start, 15 at finish | ||
| Overall results | |||
| Overall winner |  Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia Citroën Total WRT3:37:08.0 | ||
| Power Stage winner | Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia Citroën Total WRT | ||
| Support category results | |||
| WRC-2 winner | Benito Guerra Jaime Zapata Benito Guerra 3:52:43.5 | ||
The 2019 Rally Mexico (also known as the Rally Guanajuato Mexico 2019) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 7 and 10 March 2019.[2] It marked the sixteenth running of Rally Mexico and was the third round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and the newly-created WRC-2 Pro class. The 2019 event was based in the town of León in Guanajuato and consisted of twenty-one special stages. The rally covered a total competitive distance of 316.51 km (196.67 mi).
Reigning World Drivers' and World Co-Drivers Champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were the defending rally winners. M-Sport Ford WRT, the team they drove for in 2018, were the defending manufacturers' winners.[3] Pontus Tidemand and Jonas Andersson were the defending rally winners of WRC-2, but they did not participate in the event.[4]
Ogier and Ingrassia successfully defended their titles. Their team, Citroën World Rally Team, were the manufacturers' winners.[5] The M-Sport Ford WRT crew of Łukasz Pieniążek and Kamil Heller won the WRC-2 Pro category, while Benito Guerra and Jaime Zapata won the wider WRC-2 class, finishing first in the combined WRC-2 category.[6]
- ^ "Itinerary and maps". rallymexico.com. Rally Mexico. Archived from the original on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ "FIA announces World Motor Sport Council decisions". fia.com. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ "Sunday In Mexico: Ogier Nets Fourth Win". wrc.com. WRC. 11 March 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
- ^ "WRC 2 In Mexico:Easy for Pontus". wrc.com. WRC. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ "Sunday in Mexico: Ogier nets fifth win". wrc.com. WRC. 11 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ "WRC 2 in Mexico: Guerra takes first home victory". wrc.com. WRC. 11 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.