| 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.