Citroën C3 R5/Rally2

The Citroën C3 Rally2 (originally known as the Citroën C3 R5) is a rally car built by Citroën World Rally Team. It is based upon the Citroën C3 road car and is built to R5 regulations. The car made its début at the 2018 Tour de Corse where it was driven by the French crews of Stéphane Lefebvre and Gabin Moreau, and Yoann Bonato and Benjamin Boulloud.

Background In early 2017, Citroën began the development of the C3 R5. The C3 would be designed to improve on the previous offerings of Groupe PSA in the R5 discipline, the Peugeot 208 T16 and the Citroën DS3 R5, both of which proved problematic and unpopular with R5 customers. The C3 had little relation to its predecessor, the DS3.

Development Throughout summer 2017, Citroën Racing Technologies employed factory Citroën drivers Stéphane Lefebvre and Craig Breen as part of the development team for the C3, along with Yoann Bonato, who was hired for the project. The first working model was completed in September of 2017, and a month later the test C3 made its public debut at the Rallye du Var, with Bonato driving a few stages as a non-competitive entrant to the rally.

Competition The Citroën C3 R5 passed international homologation on 1 January 2018, and was now ready for competition. It made its competitive rallying debut at the Tour de Corse in April of that year, with Yoann Bonato taking second place in the WRC-2 class, and 10th overall in the rally.

Including the original test cars, a total of 26 C3 R5s had been constructed by 1 May 2019, with 22 having been sold to independent teams. In the hands of Yoann Bonato, the C3 R5 won the French Rally Championship in 2018, and continues to be used by the Citroën World Rally Team in the WRC-2 Pro class of the World Rally Championship, in the hands of Mads Østberg. Østberg would give the C3 R5 its first World Championship-level victory at the 2019 Rally Argentina. Although Citroën withdrew from the World Rally Championship in 2020, it continued as a manufacturer team in the WRC-2 and made the C3 R5 available to privateer teams in the WRC-3.

The C3 R5 was renamed the Citroën C3 Rally2 ahead of the 2021 championships.

Rally victories World Rally Championship-2 Pro Year No. Event Surface Driver Co-driver 2019 1 2019 Rally Sweden Snow Mads Østberg Torstein Eriksen 2 2019 Rally Argentina Gravel Mads Østberg Torstein Eriksen 3 2019 Rally Catalunya Tarmac Mads Østberg Torstein EriksenSources:

World Rally Championship-2 Year No. Event Surface Driver Co-driver 2019 1 2019 Monte Carlo Rally Mixed Yoann Bonato Benjamin Boulloud 2 2019 Rally Catalunya Mixed Eric Camilli Benjamin Veillas 2020 3 2020 Monte Carlo Rally Mixed Mads Østberg Torstein Eriksen 4 2020 Rally Sweden Snow Mads Østberg Torstein Eriksen 5 2020 Rally Estonia Gravel Mads Østberg Torstein Eriksen 6 2020 Rally Monza Tarmac Mads Østberg Torstein Eriksen 2021 7 2021 Croatia Rally Tarmac Mads Østberg Torstein Eriksen 8 2021 Rally Catalunya Tarmac Eric Camilli Maxime Vilmot 2022 9 2022 Croatia Rally Tarmac Yohan Rossel Valentin Sarreaud 10 2022 Rally de Portugal Gravel Yohan Rossel Valentin Sarreaud 11 2022 Ypres Rally Tarmac Stéphane Lefebvre Andy Malfoy 2023 12 2023 Monte Carlo Rally Mixed Yohan Rossel Arnaud Dunand 13 2023 Croatia Rally Tarmac Yohan Rossel Arnaud Dunand 2024 14 2024 Monte Carlo Rally Mixed Yohan Rossel Arnaud Dunand 15 2024 Croatia Rally Tarmac Nikolay Gryazin Konstantin Aleksandrov 16 2024 Rally Chile Gravel Yohan Rossel Florian Barral 17 2024 Central European Rally Tarmac Nikolay Gryazin Konstantin Aleksandrov 18 2024 Rally Japan Tarmac Nikolay Gryazin Konstantin Aleksandrov 2025 19 2025 Monte Carlo Rally Mixed Yohan Rossel Arnaud Dunand20 2025 Rally Islas CanariasTarmac Yohan Rossel Arnaud Dunand202621 2026 Monte Carlo RallyMixed Léo Rossel Guillaume MercoiretSources:

World Rally Championship-3 Year No. Event Surface Driver Co-driver 2020 1 2020 Monte Carlo Rally Mixed Eric Camilli François-Xavier Buresi 2 2020 Rally Mexico Gravel Marco Bulacia Giovanni Bernacchini 2021 3 2021 Monte Carlo Rally Mixed Yohan Rossel Benoît Fulcrand 4 2021 Rally Italia Sardegna Gravel Yohan Rossel Alexandre Coria 5 2021 Ypres Rally Tarmac Yohan Rossel Alexandre CoriaSources:

European Rally Championship Year No. Event Surface Driver Co-driver 2019 1 2019 Rally Islas Canarias Tarmac Pepe López Borja Rozada 2 2019 Rally Poland Gravel Alexey Lukyanuk Alexey Arnautov 2020 3 2020 Rally di Roma Capitale Tarmac Alexey Lukyanuk Dmitriy Eremeev 4 2020 Rally Fafe Montelongo Tarmac Alexey Lukyanuk Dmitriy Eremeev 2021 5 2021 Rally Poland Gravel Alexey Lukyanuk Alexey Arnautov 6 2021 Rally Hungary Tarmac Mads Østberg Torstein Eriksen 7 2021 Rally Islas Canarias Tarmac Alexey Lukyanuk Alexey Arnautov 2022 8 2022 Rally de Catalunya Tarmac Yoann Bonato Benjamin Boulloud 2023 9 2023 Rally Islas Canarias Tarmac Yoann Bonato Benjamin Boulloud 10 2023 Rally di Roma Capitale Tarmac Andrea Crugnola Pietro Ometto 11 2023 Rally Hungary Tarmac Mads Østberg Patrik Barth 2024 12 2024 Rally Islas Canarias Tarmac Yoann Bonato Benjamin Boulloud 13 2024 Rally di Roma Capitale Tarmac Andrea Crugnola Pietro OmettoSources:

Rally results WRC-2 Pro results - factory team Year Team Driver 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Points 2018 Citroën Total Rallye Team Stephane Lefebvre MON SWE MEX FRARet ARG POR3 ITA8 FIN13 DEU8 TUR GBR5 ESP15 AUS 13th 33 Simone Tempestini MON SWE MEX FRA ARG POR ITARet FIN9 DEU10 TUR GBR ESP AUS 15th* 28* Ole Christian Veiby MON SWE MEX FRA ARG POR ITA FIN DEU TUR GBR ESP9 AUS 7th* 47* 2019 Citroën Total WRT Mads Østberg MON SWE1 MEX FRA ARG1 CHI2 POR3 ITA3 FIN DEU4 TUR GBR5 CAT1 AUS 2nd 145

WRC-2 Results - third party entrants Year Team Driver 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Points 2018 CHL Sport Auto Yoann Bonato MON SWE MEX FRA2 ARG POR ITA FIN DEU11 TUR GBR CAT AUS 21st 18 Simone Tempestini Simone Tempestini MON SWE MEX FRA ARG POR ITA FIN DEU TUR2 GBR7 CAT10 AUS 15th* 28* 2019 CHL Sport Auto Yoann Bonato MON1 SWE MEX FRA12 ARG CHI POR ITA FIN DEU TUR GBR CAT AUS 5th 25 DG Sport Guillaume De Mévius MONRet SWE MEX FRA7 ARG CHI POR ITA FIN DEU TUR GBR CAT AUS 21st 6

- * scored points with different entries. - ** season still in progress.

Citroën C3 R5/Rally2

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