The FIA Production car World Rally Championship, or PWRC, was a companion rally series to the World Rally Championship, contested mainly by Group N rally cars.
History The series started in 1987 as FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers and obtained the world championship status in 2002. The eligible cars were still Group N modified road cars such as the Subaru Impreza WRX and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. Between 2007 and 2009 the PWRC allowed Super 2000 cars alongside regular Group N entries. In 2010 the S2000 cars were moved to a dedicated championship named SWRC (Super 2000 World Championship). With the introduction of Group R cars since 2008, the PWRC was cancelled at the end of 2012 and was replaced by the World Rally Championship-3 open exclusively to 2WD based cars homologated in R1, R2 and R3 classes. The 4WD Group N cars were moved to the new World Rally Championship-2 alongside S2000, RRC, R4 and R5 cars.
Results Drivers' Championship Season Champion 2nd place 3rd placeDriverCarDriverCarDriverCar PWRC 2012 Benito Guerra Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X Marcos Ligato Subaru Impreza WRX STI Valeriy Gorban Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 2011 Hayden Paddon Subaru Impreza WRX STI Patrik Flodin Subaru Impreza WRX STI Michał Kościuszko Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 2010 Armindo Araújo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X Patrik Flodin Subaru Impreza WRX STI Hayden Paddon Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 2009 Armindo Araújo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Martin Prokop Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Nasser Al-Attiyah Subaru Impreza WRX STI 2008 Andreas Aigner Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Juho Hänninen Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Jari Ketomaa Subaru Impreza WRX STI 2007 Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX STI Gabriel Pozzo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Mark Higgins Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 2006 Nasser Al-Attiyah Subaru Impreza WRX STI Fumio Nutahara Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Mirco Baldacci Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 2005 Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX STI Nasser Al-Attiyah Subaru Impreza WRX STI Marcos Ligato Subaru Impreza WRX STI 2004 Niall McShea Subaru Impreza WRX STI Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX STI Jani Paasonen Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII 2003 Martin Rowe Subaru Impreza WRX STI Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX STI Stig Blomqvist Subaru Impreza WRX STI 2002 Karamjit Singh Proton Pert Kristian Sohlberg Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII Ramón Ferreyros Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers 2001 Gabriel Pozzo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Manfred Stohl Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI 2000 Manfred Stohl Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Gabriel Pozzo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI 1999 Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V / Evo VI Hamed Al-Wahaibi Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V / Evo VI Toshi Arai Subaru Impreza WRX 1998 Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV / Evo V Manfred Stohl Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo V Luís Climent Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV /Proton Wira 4WD 1997 Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III Luís Climent Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV Manfred Stohl Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III / Evo IV 1996 Gustavo Trelles Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III /Subaru Impreza WRX Uwe Nittel Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III Pascal Smets Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III 1995 Rui Madeira Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II Jorge Recalde Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II Isolde Holderied Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II 1994 Jesús Puras Ford Escort RS Cosworth Isolde Holderied Mitsubishi Lancer Evo I / Evo II Jorge Recalde Mitsubishi Lancer RS / Evo II 1993 Alex Fassina Mazda 323 GTR António Coutinho Ford Escort RS Cosworth Jarmo Kytölehto Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 1992 Grégoire De Mévius Nissan Sunny GTI-R Hiroshi Nishiyama Nissan Sunny GTI-R Carlos Menem, Jr. Lancia Delta HF Integrale 1991 Grégoire De Mévius Mazda 323 GTX Fernando Capdevila Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4 Carlos Menem, Jr. Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4 Piergiorgio Bedini Lancia Delta Integrale 16V /Volkswagen Golf GTi 16V 1990 Alain Oreille Renault 5 GT Turbo Gustavo Trelles Lancia Delta Integrale 16V Tommi Mäkinen Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 1989 Alain Oreille Renault 5 GT Turbo Grégoire De Mévius Mazda 323 4WD Gustavo Trelles Lancia Delta Integrale 16V 1988 Pascal Gaban Mazda 323 4WD Jorge Recalde Lancia Delta Integrale Giovanni Del Zoppo Lancia Delta Integrale 1987 Alex Fiorio Lancia Delta HF Integrale Ove Olofsson Lancia Delta HF 4WD /Audi Coupé Quattro Bertrand Balas Lancia Delta HF 4WD Sören Nilsson Audi Coupé Quattro Claude Balesi Renault 5 GT Turbo Evangelos Gallo Toyota Corolla GT Fredrik Donner Subaru RX Turbo Franco Cunico Lancia Delta HF 4WD George Donaldson Ford Sierra RS CosworthSource:
See also Junior World Rally Championship World Rally Championship-2 World Rally Championship-3
References
External links PWRC at WRC.com PWRC at ewrc-results.com