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 March 56th KCB Safari RallyNairobiGravel????14 April6 April 37th Istanbul RallyPendik, IstanbulGravel15255.77 km28 May10 May 42th Vodafone Rally de PortugalFaro, AlgarveGravel13249.74 km327 June28 June 44th Belgium Ypres Westhoek RallyYpres, West FlandersAsphalt18298.88 km411 July12 July 2nd Rally RussiaVyborg, LeningradGravel12223.24 km51 August2 August 49th Rali Vinho da MadeiraFunchal, MadeiraAsphalt21292.16 km622 August24 August 38th Barum Rally ZlínZlín, Zlín RegionAsphalt15263.06 km711 September13 September 45th Rally Principe de AsturiasOviedo, AsturiasAsphalt15249.77 km826 September28 September 50th Rallye SanremoSanremo, LiguriaAsphalt12258.51 km924 October26 October 49th Rallye International du ValaisMartigny, ValaisAsphalt17266.25 km105 December7 December 11th Rally China??Gravel13157.50 kmSources: 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 Abarth & C. Spa Abarth Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 Giandomenico Basso Mitia Dotta 1–9 Anton Alén Timo Alanne 1–4, 6–9 Umberto Scandola Guido D'Amore 5, 9 Dario D'Esposito 8 Andrea Navarra Guido D'Amore 8 Alessio Pisi Luca Costantini 8 Renato Travaglia Lorenzo Granai 8 Island Motorsport 1, 3, 5–6 Fiat Motorsport Turkey Volkan Isik Kaan Özşenler 1, 3, 5–6 Procar Daniel Solà Oscar Sanchez 1–4, 7 François Duval Patrick Pivato 2 Fiat Cersanit Rally Team Michał Sołowow Maciek Baran 1 Fiat Vodafone José Pedro Fontes António Costa 2, 5 H.F. Grifone SRL Didier Auriol Denis Giraudet 2, 4, 8 Corrado Fontana Carlo Cassina 3 Fiat Auto Eapaña Miguel Fuster José Vincente Medina 7 Scuderia Zero4 Piu Olivier Burri Benjamin Veillas 9 Champion Racing Peugeot Peugeot 207 S2000 Jan Kopecký Petr Starý 1–4 Peugeot Team Belux Freddy Loix Robin Buysmans 1–9 Nicolas Vouilloz Nicolas Klinger 1–9 Juho Hänninen Mikko Markkula 4 BSA Team Brice Tirabassi Fabrice Gordon 1–5 F.P.F. Sport SRL Luca Rossetti Matteo Chiarcossi 1–3, 5–6, 8–9 Sandro Sottile Andrea Gorni 8 Stohl Racing Manfred Stohl Ilka Minor 2 Peugeot Total Bruno Magalhães Mário Castro 2 Carlos Magalhães 5, 7 BF Goodrich Drivers Team Miguel Campos Paulo Babo 2 Patrick Snijers Wim Soenens 3 Pavel Valoušek Zdeněk Hrůza 6 Sergio Vallejo Diego Vallejo 7 Andrea Torlasco Michele Brega 8 Peugeot Total Hungaria János Tóth Robert Tagai 2–3, 6, 9 Cersanit Rally Team Michał Sołowow Maciek Baran 3, 5–6, 8 Team de Ralis Olca/Nacional da Madeira Alexandre Camacho Pedro Calado 5 Tescoma Rally Team Roman Kresta Petr Gross 6 Peugeot Sport España Enrique García Ojeda Jordi Barrabés 6–7 Luís Monzón José Carlos Déniz 7 Óscar Garré Pablo Marcos 7 Peugeot Sport Polska Bryan Bouffier Xavier Panseri 6, 9 Lugano Racing Team Gregoire Hotz Pietro Ravasi 9 Team Philippe Roux - Anne Spiers Florian Gonon Sandra Arlettaz 9 Mauro Rally Tuning Mitsubishi Ralliart Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX Giovanni Manfrinato Claudio Condotta 1 Red Bull Rally Team Andreas Aigner Klaus Wicha 2 Bernardo Sousa Carlos Magalhães 2 Ralliart Italy Armindo Araújo Miguel Ramalho 2 Paolo Andreucci Anna Andreussi 2, 8 RRE Sports Juho Hänninen Mikko Markkula 2 Heuvel Motorsport Jasper van den Heuvel Martine Kolman 3 Driving Art Andrey Zhigunov Igor Ter-Oganesiants 4 EuroOil Čepro Czech National Team Václav Pech Petr Uhel 6 B9 Racing Alberto Hevia Alberto Iglesias 7 Guizhou Bailing Team Liu Chao Dong Hongyu Pan 10 Hongjie Wei Shaojun Huang 10 Juha Salo Mika Stenberg 10 Soueast-Motor Wan Yu Rally Team Jarkko Miettinen Mikko Lukka 10 Fan Fan Junwei Fang 10 Jixiang Wu Zhengliang Ke 10 Zhonglin Yang Weipeng Zhang 10 Wuyi Youth Rally Team Jun Xu Shuang Liu 10 Zhixing Yang Xin Guo 10 Duindistel Volkswagen Volkswagen Polo S2000 Bernd Casier Frédéric Miclotte 3 Belgian VW Club 6, 8 Raphaël Auqueir Cédric Pirotte 3 René Georges Rally Sport Philippe Greiffenberg Laurent Fourcade 9 Bill Gwynne Motorsport MG S2000 Sport Mark Higgins Rory Kennedy 3 Stuart Jones Rallying Stuart Jones George Gwynn 9 Procar Honda Honda Civic Type-R R3 Alessandro Bettega Simone Scattolin 3, 6–9 JAS Motorsport Guy Wilks David Moynihan 4

Drivers standings The best seven scores from each driver count towards the championship. Pos Driver IST POR YPR RUS MAD ZLI AST SAN VAL CHN  Pts  1 Nicolas Vouilloz 2 3 2 5 1 2 2 2 2 58 2 Freddy Loix 8 Ret 1 4 6 1 3 5 1 48 3 Giandomenico Basso Ret 4 6 3 2 Ret 1 1 5 46 4 Luca Rossetti 1 1 3 5 7 3 3 44 5 Anton Alén 3 Ret 11 2 Ret 6 8 6 21 6 Renato Travaglia 4 Ret 4 5 4 19 7 Jan Kopecký 5 2 Ret 6 15 8 Juho Hänninen 5 1 14 9 Bryan Bouffier 3 4 11 10 Jarkko Miettinen 1 10 11 Liu Chao Dong 3 8 12 Alexandre Camacho 3 6 13 Jun Xu 4 6 14 Enrique García Ojeda 13 4 5 15 Bernd Casier 4 5 16 Pavel Valoušek 4 5 17 Fan Fan 6 5 18 Patrick Snijers 5 4 19 Miguel Fuster 5 4 20 János Tóth Ret Ret 6 8 4 21 Bruno Magalhães 6 8 Ret 4 22 Hanping Ma 7 4 23 Daniel Sola 6 Ret Ret Ret Ret 3 24 Alessandro Perico 6 3 25 Zhuoyong Tan 8 3 26 Volkan Isik 7 Ret 11 16 2 27 Brice Tirabassi Ret Ret Ret 7 Ret 2 28 Umberto Scandola 7 Ret Ret 2 29 Manfred Stohl 7 2 30 Jasper van den Heuvel 7 2 31 Sergio Vallejo 7 2 32 Luca Cantamessa 7 2 33 Gregoire Hotz 7 2 34 Jixiang Wu 9 2 35 Andreas Aigner 8 1 36 Josef Peták 8 1 37 Alberto Hevia 8 1 38 Paul Lietaer 9 1 39 Oleg Antropov 9 1 40 Jianrong Jan 11 1 Pos Driver IST POR YPR RUS MAD ZLI AST SAN VAL CHN  Pts 

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