The Škoda Fabia R5 is a rally car built by Škoda Motorsport. It is based upon the Škoda Fabia road car and is built to R5 regulations. It made its competition début in 2015 as a successor to the Škoda Fabia S2000. The car proved to be very successful in the World Rally Championship-2 class, winning thirty-five events between 2015 and 2018. Esapekka Lappi won the 2016 World Rally Championship-2 drivers title with four victories, Pontus Tidemand won the 2017 championship and Jan Kopecký won the 2018 championship. Škoda Motorsport won the FIA World Rally Championship-2 for Teams in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Starting in 2019, Škoda Motorsport entered the Fabia R5 in the professional class of the World Rally Championship-2. An updated version of the Fabia R5 known as the Škoda Fabia R5 Evo was introduced during the 2019 season. The car was originally launched with the R5 group nomenclature, but in early 2020, Škoda Motorsport announced the update of their car names according to the new FIA pyramid, renaming successor, the Fabia R5 evo as the Fabia Rally2 evo.
The Fabia R5 has also competed in regional rally championships in Europe the Asia-Pacific and Codasur South American Rally Championships. Gaurav Gill won the 2016 and 2017 Asia-Pacific titles and Yuya Sumiyama won the 2018 championship. Gustavo Saba won the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Codasur South American Rally Championships. The car has also won a further fourteen rounds of the European Rally Championship.
From a commercial and competitive standpoint, the Fabia is one of the most successful cars in the history of the R5 category, winning over 700 rally competitions all around the world, and selling over 240 units to independent teams and owners over a three-and-a-half-year period.
Results World Championships World Rally Championship-2 victories Year No. Event Driver Co-driver 2015 1 2015 Rally Poland Esapekka Lappi Janne Ferm 2 2015 Rally Finland Esapekka Lappi Janne Ferm 3 Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler 4 Pontus Tidemand Emil Axelsson 2016 5 2016 Rally México Teemu Suninen Mikko Markkula 6 2016 Rally Argentina Nicolás Fuchs Fernando Mussano 7 2016 Rally de Portugal Pontus Tidemand Jonas Andersson 8 Teemu Suninen Mikko Markkula 9 2016 Rally Poland Teemu Suninen Mikko Markkula 10 2016 Rally Finland Esapekka Lappi Janne Ferm 11 2016 Rallye Deutschland Esapekka Lappi Janne Ferm 12 2016 Rally Catalunya Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler 13 2016 Wales Rally GB Esapekka Lappi Janne Ferm 14 2016 Rally Australia Esapekka Lappi Janne Ferm 2017 15 2017 Monte Carlo Rally Anders Jæger 16 2017 Rally Sweden Pontus Tidemand Jonas Andersson 17 2017 Rally Mexico Pontus Tidemand Jonas Andersson 18 2017 Tour de Corse Andreas Mikkelsen Anders Jæger 19 2017 Rally Argentina Pontus Tidemand Jonas Andersson 20 2017 Rally de Portugal Pontus Tidemand Jonas Andersson 21 2017 Rally Italia Sardegna Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler 22 2017 Rally Poland Ole Christian Veiby 23 2017 Rally Finland Jari Huttunen Antti Linnaketo 24 2017 Wales Rally GB Pontus Tidemand Jonas Andersson 2018 25 2018 Monte Carlo Rally Pavel Dresler 26 2018 Rally Mexico Pontus Tidemand Jonas Andersson 27 2018 Tour de Corse Pavel Dresler 28 2018 Rally Argentina Pontus Tidemand Jonas Andersson 29 2018 Rally de Portugal Pontus Tidemand Jonas Andersson 30 2018 Rally Italia Sardegna Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler 31 2018 Rally Finland Eerik Pietarinen Juhana Raitanen 32 2018 Rallye Deutschland Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler 33 2018 Rally Turkey Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler 34 2018 Wales Rally GB Kalle Rovanperä Jonne Halttunen 35 2018 Rally Catalunya Kalle Rovanperä Jonne Halttunen201936 2019 Rally Mexico Benito Guerra Jr. Jaime Zapata Ortega37 2019 Tour de Corse Fabio Andolfi Simone Scattolin
Regional championships European Rally Championship victories Year No. Event Driver Co-driver 2015 1 2015 Ypres Rally Freddy Loix Johan Gitsels 2 2015 Barum Rally Zlín Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler 2016 3 2016 Acropolis Rally Ralfs Sirmacis Arturs Šimins 4 2016 Ypres Rally Freddy Loix Johan Gitsels 5 2016 Rally Estonia Ralfs Sirmacis Māris Kulšs 6 Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler 7 2016 Rally Liepāja Ralfs Sirmacis Māris Kulšs 2017 8 2017 Rallye Azores 9 Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler 10 2017 Rally Liepāja Nikolay Gryazin Yaroslav Fedorov 2018 11 2018 Acropolis Rally Bruno Magalhães Hugo Magalhães 12 2018 Rally Cyprus Antonis Ioannou 13 Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler 14 2018 Rally Poland Nikolay Gryazin Yaroslav Fedorov 15 2018 Rally Liepāja Nikolay Gryazin Yaroslav Fedorov 201916 2019 Rallye Azores Łukasz Habaj Daniel Dymurski17 2019 Rally di Roma Capitale Giandomenico Basso Lorenzo Granai18 2019 Barum Rally Zlín Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler19 2019 Rally Hungary Frigyes Turán László Bagaméri
Asia-Pacific Rally Championship victories Year No. Event Driver Co-driver 2015 1 2016 2 2016 International Rally of Whangarei Gaurav Gill Glenn MacNeall 3 Gaurav Gill Glenn MacNeall 4 2016 Rally Hokkaido Gaurav Gill Glenn MacNeall 5 2016 Malaysian Rally Gaurav Gill Glenn MacNeall 6 2016 Rally of India Gaurav Gill Glenn MacNeall2017 7 2017 International Rally of Whangarei Gaurav Gill Glenn MacNeall 8 2017 National Capital Rally Ole Christian Veiby 9 2017 Malaysian Rally Stig Rune Skjærmoen 10 2017 Rally Hokkaido Gaurav Gill Glenn MacNeall 11 2017 Rally of India Gaurav Gill Glenn MacNeall2018 12 2018 National Capital Rally Eli Evans Ben Searcy 13 2018 Malaysian Rally Yuya Sumiyama Takahiro Yasui 14 2018 Rally Hokkaido Yuya Sumiyama Takahiro Yasui
See also Group R Citroën C3 R5 Ford Fiesta R5 Hyundai i20 R5 Volkswagen Polo GTI R5
References
External links
Škoda Fabia R5 at skoda-motorsport.com Škoda Fabia R5 at ewrc-results.com ŠKODA FABIA Rally2 at fabiarally2.cz Škoda Fabia R5 at 4x4schweiz.ch