EUROPE – THE BEST RALLY DRIVERS AND CO-DRIVERS FOR EACH EUROPEAN COUNTRY

In Europe 44 are the FIA – Motor Sport Club Members Countries, but only the Rally Drivers and Co-Drivers from 31 European countries in the 2012 have obtained results needed to become part of the World Rally Ranking – WRR promoted by the IRDA (International Rally Drivers Association). 776 Rally Drivers and 822 Rally Co-drivers from 31 European countries, after the running all international rallies in the FIA calendar 2012, have scored the necessary results to enter the World Rally Ranking. Following the best Rally Drivers and Co-drivers for each European country:

Country
Driver
Codriver

Austria
Andreas Aigner
(Followed from 17 drivers)
Ilka Minor-Petrasko
(Followed from 15 codrivers)

Belarus
Anatoliy Shimakovskiy
Alexey Krektun

Belgium
Thierry Neuville
(Followed from 19 drivers)
Nicolas Gilsoul
(Followed from 25 codrivers)

Bulgaria
Ekaterina Stratieva
(Followed from 27 drivers)
Dimitar Spasov
(Followed from 26 codrivers)

Croatia
Jurai Sebalj
(Followed from 15 drivers)
Toni Klinc
(Followed from 15 codrivers)

Czech Republic
Jan Kopecky
(Followed from 76 drivers)
Pavel Dresler
(Followed from 77 codrivers)

Estonia
Ott Tanak
(Followed from 4 drivers)
Kuldar Sikk
(Followed from 5 codrivers)

Finland
Mikko Hirvonen
(Followed from 17 drivers)
Jarmo Lehtinen
(Followed from 19 codrivers)

France
Sebastien Loeb
(Followed from 46 drivers)
Julien Ingrassia
(Followed from 47 codrivers)

Germany
Sepp Wiegand
(Followed from 5 drivers)
Timo Gottschalk
(Followed from 7 codrivers)

Great Britain
Harry Hunt
(Followed from 32 drivers)
Christoper Patterson
(Followed from 46 codrivers)

Greece
Vasilis Gatsos
(Followed from 5 drivers)
Maria Amarantidou
(Followed from 6 codrivers)

Hungary
Laszlo Vizin
(Followed from 16 drivers)
Gabor Zsiros
(Followed from 15 codrivers)

Ireland
Craig Breen
(Followed from 51 drivers)
David Moynihan
(Followed from 49 codrivers)

Italy
Giandomenico Basso
(Followed from 189 drivers)
Giovanni Bernacchini
(Followed from 206 codrivers)

Latvia
Osian Pryce
(Followed from 1 driver)
Peteris Dzirkals

Lithuania
Benedictas Vanagas
Kestutis Buzius
(Followed from 2 codrivers)

Monaco
/ / /
Daniel Elena

Netherlands
Peter Van Merksteijn
(Followed from 7 drivers)
Pascal Meijs
(Followed from 2 codrivers)

Norway
Andreas Mikkelsen
(Followed from 7 drivers)
Ola Floene
(Followed from 6 codrivers)

Poland
Michal Solowow
(Followed from 27 drivers)
Maciej Baran
(Followed from 27 codrivers)

Portugal
Armindo Araujo
(Followed from 31 drivers)
Miguel Ramalho
(Followed from 33 codrivers)

Romania
Marco Tempestini
(Followed from 16 drivers)
Carmen Poenaru
(Followed from 16 codrivers)

Russia
Evgeny Novikov
(Followed from 4 drivers)
Sergey Larens
(Followed from 3 codrivers)

San Marino
Giovanni Zonzini
(Followed from 2 drivers)
Silvio Stefanelli
(Followed from 3 codrivers)

Slovakia
Jaroslav Melicharek
(Followed from 13 drivers)
Blaz Selan
(Followed from 6 codrivers)

Slovenia
Aleks Humar
(Followed from 18 drivers)
Lukas Zamecnik
(Followed from 27 codrivers)

Spain
Daniel Sordo Castillo
(Followed from 30 drivers)
Carlos Del Barrio
(Followed from 33 codrivers)

Sweden
Peter-Gunnar Andersson
(Followed from 8 drivers)
Jonas Andersson
(Followed from 7 codrivers)

Switzerland
Francesco Parli
(Followed from 41 drivers)
Stéphane Rey
(Followed from 42 codrivers)

Ukraine
Valeriy Gorban
(Followed from 22 drivers)
Andrey Nikolaev
(Followed from 26 codrivers)

The Rally Drivers or Co-drivers of 13 European countries weren’t be able to score the results necessary to become part of the World Rally Ranking. The European countries not included in the WRR are Albania, Andorra, Bosnia – Herzegovina , Denmark, Vatican State, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro and Serbia.

World Rally Ranking is calculated through a points system, based on the importance, the sporting difficulty and the results obtained by drivers and co-drivers from around the world participating only in the rallies included in the FIA International Sporting Calendar.
The ranking is an objective and “impartial” standing, where rally driver of all nations see their value, the value of their victories and their results recognized as a whole, something that the current classification systems obviously do not allow, being based on standings for individual championships without a unique world classification.
Besides the overall ranking for drivers there is also one for co-drivers, and other partial rankings (by nation, by car, by manufacturer, by category, by surface).
The World Rally Ranking, just like other sports’ rankings, is based on a computing system which assigns a base score, depending on the overall position obtained, then corrected through a system of coefficients to reflect the relevance, the importance, the difficulty and length of each rally, and therefore the importance of the result: the first factor is the validity of the rally, e.g. a World Rally Championship event has coeff. 15, a Middle East Rally Championship event has coeff. 9 etc etc .
All with maximum transparency: all the criteria can easily be verified in the IRDA Regulations on the www.worldrallyranking.com website.
Alongside the Rankings visible to all (the first 40 positions for each type of ranking) on the www.worldrallyranking.com website it is possible to access the complete rankings and to have the possibility to create customized rankings by registering with the form provided, by simply entering name and email address.
In short, a revolution for all the protagonists of the rally world, drivers, teams, journalists and fans.
All the results from January 1st 2010 to date of all the drivers and co-drivers of all nations in all the worldwide events in the FIA International Sporting Calendar have been included in the IRDA database.