2020 Rally Turkey | |
Native Name: | 13. Marmaris Rally Turkey |
Round: | 5 |
Season No: | 7 |
Championship: | 2020 World Rally Championship |
Previous Round: | 2020 Rally Estonia |
Next Round: | 2020 Rally Italia Sardegna |
Rallybase: | Marmaris, Muğla |
Start: | İçmeler, Muğla |
Finish: | Marmaris, Muğla |
Startdate: | 18 |
Enddate: | 20 September 2020 |
Stages: | 12 |
Stagekm: | 223.00 |
Stagekm Note: | [1] |
Transportkm: | 484.81 |
Overallkm: | 707.81 |
Surface: | Gravel |
Driver1: | Elfyn Evans |
Codriver1: | Scott Martin |
Team1: | Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT |
Time1: | 2:43:02.7 |
Driver2: | Pontus Tidemand |
Codriver2: | Patrik Barth |
Team2: | Toksport WRT |
Time2: | 2:56:02.4 |
Driver3: | Kajetan Kajetanowicz |
Codriver3: | Maciej Szczepaniak |
Time3: | 2:55:38.2 |
Powerstage Driver: | Thierry Neuville |
Powerstage Codriver: | Nicolas Gilsoul |
Powerstage Team: | Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT |
Powerstage Time: | 4:20.4 |
Crewsreg: | 26 |
Teamsstart: | 24 |
Teamsfinish: | 18 |
The 2020 Rally Turkey (also known as Marmaris Rally Turkey 2020) was a motor racing event for rally cars that held between 18 and 20 September 2020.[2] It marked the thirteenth running of Rally Turkey and was the fifth round of the 2020 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. The 2020 event was based in Marmaris in Muğla Province, and was contested over twelve special stages with a total competitive distance of 2232NaN2.[1]
Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were the defending rally winners.[3] Citroën World Rally Team, the team they drove for in 2019, were the reigning manufacturers' winners, but they did not defending their title after parent company Citroën withdrew from the sport.[4] Gus Greensmith and Elliott Edmondson were the defending winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category, but they did not defend their titles as they were promoted to the sport's top tier by M-Sport Ford World Rally Team.[5] In the World Rally Championship-3 category, Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Maciej Szczepaniak were the reigning rally winners.[5]
Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin were the overall winners of the rally, recording a second win of the season. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the manufacturers' winners.[6] The Toksport WRT crew of Pontus Tidemand and Patrik Barth won the WRC-2 category.[7] Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Maciej Szczepaniak successfully defended their tiles in the WRC-3 category.[8]
Six-time world champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia entered the round with a nine-point lead over Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin. Reigning world champions Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were third, a further four points behind. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT held a five-point lead over defending manufacturers' champions Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, following by M-Sport Ford WRT.
In the World Rally Championship-2 standings, Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen held a twenty-point lead ahead of Pontus Tidemand and Patrick Barth in the drivers' and co-drivers' standings respectively, with Nikolay Gryazin and Renaud Jamoul in third. In the manufacturer' championship, Hyundai Motorsport N led PH-Sport by nine points. M-Sport Ford WRT sit in third, a slender five points behind.
In the World Rally Championship-3 standings, the crew of Jari Huttunen and Mikko Lukka led both drivers' and co-drivers' championships by six and eight points over Marco Bulacia Wilkinson and Aaron Johnston respectively. Oliver Solberg was third in the drivers' standings, while Yannick Roche held third in the co-drivers' standings.
The following crews entered into the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, its support categories, the World Rally Championship-2, World Rally Championship-3 and privateer entries that were not registered to score points in any championship. Twenty-six entries were received, with ten crews entered in World Rally Cars, three Group R5 cars entered in the World Rally Championship-2 and twelve in the World Rally Championship-3.
All dates and times are TRT (UTC+3).