2019 Tour de Corse

2019 Tour de Corse
62e Corsica Linea – Tour de Corse
Round 4 of 14 in the 2019 World Rally Championship
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The Tour de Corse is the first full tarmac event on the 2019 calendar.
Host country France
Rally baseBastia, Corsica
Dates run28 – 31 March 2019
Start locationAlta-Rocca, Corse-du-Sud
Finish locationCalvi, Haute-Corse
Stages14 (347.51 km; 215.93 miles)[1]
Stage surfaceTarmac
Transport distance846.55 km (526.02 miles)
Overall distance1,194.06 km (741.95 miles)
Statistics
Crews registered96
Crews92 at start, 68 at finish
Overall results
Overall winnerBelgium Thierry Neuville
Belgium Nicolas Gilsoul
South Korea Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT
3:22:59.0
Power Stage winnerUnited Kingdom Kris Meeke
United Kingdom Sebastian Marshall
Japan Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT
Support category results
WRC-2 winnerItaly Fabio Andolfi
Italy Simone Scattolin
Italy Fabio Andolfi
3:34:28.6
J-WRC winnerGermany Julius Tannert
Austria Jürgen Heigl
Germany ADAC Sachsen
3:52:10.0

The 2019 Tour de Corse (also known as the Corsica Linea – Tour de Corse 2019) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 28 and 31 March 2019.[2] It marked the sixty-second running of Tour de Corse and was the fourth round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and the newly created WRC-2 Pro class. It was also the second round of the Junior World Rally Championship. The 2019 event was based in the town of Bastia in Corsica, and was contested over fourteen special stages with a total a competitive distance of 347.51 km (215.93 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] Jan Kopecký and Pavel Dresler were the defending winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category, but they did not participate in the event.[4] Jean-Baptiste Franceschi and Romain Courbon were the reigning World Rally Championship-3 and defending Junior World Rally Championship winners, but did not defend their titles as they did not take part in the rally.[5]

Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul won the Rally Corsica for the second time in their career. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturers' winners.[6] The M-Sport Ford WRT crew of Łukasz Pieniążek and Kamil Heller won the WRC-2 Pro category, while the Italian crew of Fabio Andolfi and Simone Scattolin won the wider WRC-2 class, finishing first in the combined WRC-2 category.[7] The second round of the J-WRC championship was taken by the ADAC Sachsen crew of Julius Tannert and Jürgen Heigl.[8]

  1. ^ "Overview Map" (PDF). tourdecorse.com. Tour de Corse. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  2. ^ "FIA announces World Motor Sport Council decisions". fia.com. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Breaking News: Ogier Wins In Corsica". wrc.com. WRC. 8 April 2018. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  4. ^ "WRC 2 in France:Kopecký cruises to win". wrc.com. WRC. 8 April 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Junior WRC in France:Franceschi's debut win". wrc.com. WRC. 8 April 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  6. ^ "Sunday in Corsica: Neuville profits from Evans Despair". wrc.com. WRC. 31 March 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  7. ^ "WRC 2 in Corsica: Andolfi wins after Sunday Thriller". wrc.com. WRC. 31 March 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  8. ^ "Junior WRC in Corsica Tannert clinches a thriller". wrc.com. WRC. 31 March 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.