2022 FIA World Rally Championship

The 2022 FIA World Rally Championship is the fiftieth season of the World Rally Championship, an auto racing competition recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) as the highest class of international rallying. Teams and crews compete for the World Rally Championships for Drivers, Co-drivers, Manufacturers and Teams. Crews are free to compete in cars complying with Groups Rally1 to Rally5 regulations; however, only manufacturers competing with Rally1 cars homologated under radically new regulations are eligible to score points in the manufacturers’ championship. The championship is set to begin in January 2022 with the Rallye Monte-Carlo and is expected to conclude in November 2022 with Rally Japan. The series is supported by the World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3 classes at every round of the championship with the junior category at selected events.

Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia are the reigning drivers’ and co-drivers’ champions, having secured their eighth championship titles at the 2021 Rally Monza. However, Ingrassia would not defend his title as he retired from competition at the end of 2021 season. Toyota are the defending manufacturers’ champions.

After the second round, Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen respectively lead the drivers’ and co-drivers’ championships by fourteen points over Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe. Nine-time world champion Sébastien Loeb and Isabelle Galmiche are third, a further five points behind. In the manufacturers’ championship, reigning manufacturer champion Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT holds a twenty-four-point lead over M-Sport Ford WRT, with Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT in third.