2008 Intercontinental Rally Challenge

April 2025 2008 Intercontinental Rally Challenge 2007 2009 The 2008 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season was the third season of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. The season consisted of ten rounds and began on April 4, with the Istanbul Rally. The season ended on December 12 with the China Rally. Nicolas Vouilloz won the title ahead of Freddy Loix and Giandomenico Basso. Calendar Rd.Start dateFinish dateRallyRally headquartersSurfaceStagesDistanceC21 March23 MarchKEN 56th KCB Safari RallyNairobiGravel????14 April6 AprilTUR 37th Istanbul RallyPendik, IstanbulGravel15255.77 km28 May10 MayPOR 42th Vodafone Rally de PortugalFaro, AlgarveGravel13249.74 km327 June28 JuneBEL 44th Belgium Ypres Westhoek RallyYpres, West FlandersAsphalt18298.88 km411 July12 JulyRUS 2nd Rally RussiaVyborg, LeningradGravel12223.24 km51 August2 AugustPOR 49th Rali Vinho da MadeiraFunchal, MadeiraAsphalt21292.16 km622 August24 AugustCZE 38th Barum Rally ZlínZlín, Zlín RegionAsphalt15263.06 km711 September13 SeptemberESP 45th Rally Principe de AsturiasOviedo, AsturiasAsphalt15249.77 km826 September28 SeptemberITA 50th Rallye SanremoSanremo, LiguriaAsphalt12258.51 km924 October26 OctoberSUI 49th Rallye International du ValaisMartigny, ValaisAsphalt17266.25 km105 December7 DecemberCHN 11th Rally China??Gravel13157.50 kmSources: IRC 2008 calendar https://www.ewrc-results.com/season/2008/?nat=110 2 April 2025 eWRC2008 Intercontinental Rally Challenge https://www.rally.ie/index.php/stories/080107-163812 1 April 2025 Rally.ie Safari Rally dropped off the calendar due to political difficulties in Kenya. The Istanbul Rally was added to become the new season opener Selected entries Entrant Constructor Car Driver Co-driver Rounds ITA Abarth & C. Spa Abarth Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 ITA Giandomenico Basso ITA Mitia Dotta 1–9 FIN Anton Alén FIN Timo Alanne 1–4, 6–9 ITA Umberto Scandola ITA Guido D'Amore 5, 9 ITA Dario D'Esposito 8 ITA Andrea Navarra ITA Guido D'Amore 8 ITA Alessio Pisi ITA Luca Costantini 8 ITA Renato Travaglia ITA Lorenzo Granai 8 ITA Island Motorsport 1, 3, 5–6 TUR Fiat Motorsport Turkey TUR Volkan Isik TUR Kaan Özşenler 1, 3, 5–6 ITA Procar ESP Daniel Solà ESP Oscar Sanchez 1–4, 7 BEL François Duval FRA Patrick Pivato 2 POL Fiat Cersanit Rally Team POL Michał Sołowow POL Maciek Baran 1 POR Fiat Vodafone POR José Pedro Fontes POR António Costa 2, 5 ITA H.F. Grifone SRL FRA Didier Auriol FRA Denis Giraudet 2, 4, 8 ITA Corrado Fontana ITA Carlo Cassina 3 ESP Fiat Auto Eapaña ESP Miguel Fuster ESP José Vincente Medina 7 SWI Scuderia Zero4 Piu SWI Olivier Burri FRA Benjamin Veillas 9 CZE Champion Racing Peugeot Peugeot 207 S2000 CZE Jan Kopecký CZE Petr Starý 1–4 BEL Peugeot Team Belux BEL Freddy Loix BEL Robin Buysmans 1–9 FRA Nicolas Vouilloz FRA Nicolas Klinger 1–9 FIN Juho Hänninen FIN Mikko Markkula 4 FRA BSA Team FRA Brice Tirabassi FRA Fabrice Gordon 1–5 ITA F.P.F. Sport SRL ITA Luca Rossetti ITA Matteo Chiarcossi 1–3, 5–6, 8–9 ITA Sandro Sottile ITA Andrea Gorni 8 AUT Stohl Racing AUT Manfred Stohl AUT Ilka Minor 2 FRA Peugeot Total POR Bruno Magalhães POR Mário Castro 2 POR Carlos Magalhães 5, 7 FRA BF Goodrich Drivers Team POR Miguel Campos POR Paulo Babo 2 BEL Patrick Snijers BEL Wim Soenens 3 CZE Pavel Valoušek CZE Zdeněk Hrůza 6 ESP Sergio Vallejo ESP Diego Vallejo 7 ITA Andrea Torlasco ITA Michele Brega 8 HUN Peugeot Total Hungaria HUN János Tóth HUN Robert Tagai 2–3, 6, 9 POL Cersanit Rally Team POL Michał Sołowow POL Maciek Baran 3, 5–6, 8 POR Team de Ralis Olca/Nacional da Madeira POR Alexandre Camacho POR Pedro Calado 5 CZE Tescoma Rally Team CZE Roman Kresta CZE Petr Gross 6 ESP Peugeot Sport España ESP Enrique García Ojeda ESP Jordi Barrabés 6–7 ESP Luís Monzón ESP José Carlos Déniz 7 ESP Óscar Garré ESP Pablo Marcos 7 POL Peugeot Sport Polska FRA Bryan Bouffier FRA Xavier Panseri 6, 9 SWI Lugano Racing Team SWI Gregoire Hotz SWI Pietro Ravasi 9 SWI Team Philippe Roux - Anne Spiers SWI Florian Gonon SWI Sandra Arlettaz 9 ITA Mauro Rally Tuning Mitsubishi Ralliart Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX ITA Giovanni Manfrinato ITA Claudio Condotta 1 AUT Red Bull Rally Team AUT Andreas Aigner GER Klaus Wicha 2 POR Bernardo Sousa POR Carlos Magalhães 2 ITA Ralliart Italy POR Armindo Araújo POR Miguel Ramalho 2 ITA Paolo Andreucci ITA Anna Andreussi 2, 8 FIN RRE Sports FIN Juho Hänninen FIN Mikko Markkula 2 NED Heuvel Motorsport NED Jasper van den Heuvel NED Martine Kolman 3 RUS Driving Art RUS Andrey Zhigunov RUS Igor Ter-Oganesiants 4 CZE EuroOil Čepro Czech National Team CZE Václav Pech CZE Petr Uhel 6 ESP B9 Racing ESP Alberto Hevia ESP Alberto Iglesias 7 CHN Guizhou Bailing Team CHN Liu Chao Dong CHN Hongyu Pan 10 CHN Hongjie Wei CHN Shaojun Huang 10 FIN Juha Salo FIN Mika Stenberg 10 CHN Soueast-Motor Wan Yu Rally Team FIN Jarkko Miettinen FIN Mikko Lukka 10 CHN Fan Fan CHN Junwei Fang 10 THA Jixiang Wu THA Zhengliang Ke 10 CHN Zhonglin Yang CHN Weipeng Zhang 10 CHN Wuyi Youth Rally Team CHN Jun Xu CHN Shuang Liu 10 CHN Zhixing Yang CHN Xin Guo 10 BEL Duindistel Volkswagen Volkswagen Polo S2000 BEL Bernd Casier BEL Frédéric Miclotte 3 BEL Belgian VW Club 6, 8 BEL Raphaël Auqueir BEL Cédric Pirotte 3 BEL René Georges Rally Sport FRA Philippe Greiffenberg FRA Laurent Fourcade 9 GBR Bill Gwynne Motorsport MG S2000 Sport GBR Mark Higgins GBR Rory Kennedy 3 GBR Stuart Jones Rallying GBR Stuart Jones GBR George Gwynn 9 ITA Procar Honda Honda Civic Type-R R3 ITA Alessandro Bettega ITA Simone Scattolin 3, 6–9 ITA JAS Motorsport GBR Guy Wilks IRL David Moynihan 4 Drivers standings The best seven scores from each driver count towards the championship. Pos Driver ISTTUR PORPOR YPRBEL RUSRUS MADPOR ZLICZE ASTESP SANITA VALSUI CHNCHN  Pts  1 FRA Nicolas Vouilloz 2 3 2 5 1 2 2 2 2 58 2 BEL Freddy Loix 8 Ret 1 4 6 1 3 5 1 48 3 ITA Giandomenico Basso Ret 4 6 3 2 Ret 1 1 5 46 4 ITA Luca Rossetti 1 1 3 5 7 3 3 44 5 FIN Anton Alén 3 Ret 11 2 Ret 6 8 6 21 6 ITA Renato Travaglia 4 Ret 4 5 4 19 7 CZE Jan Kopecký 5 2 Ret 6 15 8 FIN Juho Hänninen 5 1 14 9 FRA Bryan Bouffier 3 4 11 10 FIN Jarkko Miettinen 1 10 11 CHN Liu Chao Dong 3 8 12 POR Alexandre Camacho 3 6 13 CHN Jun Xu 4 6 14 ESP Enrique García Ojeda 13 4 5 15 BEL Bernd Casier 4 5 16 CZE Pavel Valoušek 4 5 17 CHN Fan Fan 6 5 18 BEL Patrick Snijers 5 4 19 ESP Miguel Fuster 5 4 20 HUN János Tóth Ret Ret 6 8 4 21 POR Bruno Magalhães 6 8 Ret 4 22 CHN Hanping Ma 7 4 23 ESP Daniel Sola 6 Ret Ret Ret Ret 3 24 ITA Alessandro Perico 6 3 25 CHN Zhuoyong Tan 8 3 26 TUR Volkan Isik 7 Ret 11 16 2 27 FRA Brice Tirabassi Ret Ret Ret 7 Ret 2 28 ITA Umberto Scandola 7 Ret Ret 2 29 AUT Manfred Stohl 7 2 30 NED Jasper van den Heuvel 7 2 31 ESP Sergio Vallejo 7 2 32 ITA Luca Cantamessa 7 2 33 SUI Gregoire Hotz 7 2 34 THA Jixiang Wu 9 2 35 AUT Andreas Aigner 8 1 36 CZE Josef Peták 8 1 37 ESP Alberto Hevia 8 1 38 BEL Paul Lietaer 9 1 39 RUS Oleg Antropov 9 1 40 CHN Jianrong Jan 11 1 Pos Driver ISTTUR PORPOR YPRBEL RUSRUS MADPOR ZLICZE ASTESP SANITA VALSUI CHNCHN  Pts  References Category:Intercontinental Rally Challenge seasons Intercontinental Rally Challenge