2019 Rally Mexico

2019 Rally Mexico
16. Rally Guanajuato Mexico
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 baseLeón, Guanajuato
Dates run7 – 10 March 2019
Start locationStreet Stage GTO, Guanajuato
Finish locationLas Minas, Guanajuato
Stages21 (316.51 km; 196.67 miles)[1]
Stage surfaceGravel
Transport distance689.79 km (428.62 miles)
Overall distance1,006.30 km (625.29 miles)
Statistics
Crews registered24
Crews23 at start, 15 at finish
Overall results
Overall winnerFrance Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia
France Citroën Total WRT
3:37:08.0
Power Stage winnerFrance Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia
France Citroën Total WRT
Support category results
WRC-2 winnerMexico Benito Guerra
Mexico Jaime Zapata
Mexico 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]

  1. ^ "Itinerary and maps". rallymexico.com. Rally Mexico. Archived from the original on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  2. ^ "FIA announces World Motor Sport Council decisions". fia.com. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Sunday In Mexico: Ogier Nets Fourth Win". wrc.com. WRC. 11 March 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  4. ^ "WRC 2 In Mexico:Easy for Pontus". wrc.com. WRC. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  5. ^ "Sunday in Mexico: Ogier nets fifth win". wrc.com. WRC. 11 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  6. ^ "WRC 2 in Mexico: Guerra takes first home victory". wrc.com. WRC. 11 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.