The 2015 Rally Guanajuato México was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 5 and 8 March 2015. It marked the twenty-ninth running of the Rally Mexico, and was the third round of the 2015 World Rally Championship and WRC-2 seasons.
For the third year in succession, Volkswagen Motorsport driver Sébastien Ogier won the rally, taking his fifth consecutive WRC win in the process. Ogier finished almost a minute-and-a-half clear of his closest competitor, Citroën World Rally Team's Mads Østberg. The podium was completed by Ogier's team-mate Andreas Mikkelsen, who finished 6.3 seconds in arrears of Østberg. Nasser Al-Attiyah was the winner of the WRC-2 class, finishing almost eight minutes clear of anyone else, while also finishing in seventh place overall. Nicolás Fuchs (ninth overall) and Jari Ketomaa (tenth overall) completed the podium.
During the third stage of the rally, Los Mexicanos, Ott Tänak crashed his car into a lake, but he and co-driver Raigo Mõlder were able to extract themselves from the car prior to it submerging. The car was recovered from the lake, in anticipation for the car to be repaired by the M-Sport World Rally Team. The team attempted to repair the car, dubbed the TiTänak – a portmanteau of the RMS Titanic passenger liner, that sank in 1912, and Tänak's name – for the second day, but he was unable to start. He returned for Sunday's stages, finishing 22nd overall and scoring a manufacturers' championship point.
Entry list Notable entrants Entrant Driver Co-driver Car 1 WRC 2 WRC 3 WRC 4 WRC 5 WRC 6 WRC 7 WRC 8 WRC 9 WRC 20 WRC 21 WRC 23 WRC 24 WRC 32 WRC-2 33 WRC-2 35 WRC-2 36 WRC-2 37 WRC 38 WRC-2 39 WRC-2 40 WRC-2 41 WRC-2 42 WRC-2 43 WRC-2 51 WRC-2 Icon Class WRC WRC entries eligible toscore manufacturer points WRC Major entry ineligible toscore manufacturer points WRC-2 Registered to take part inWRC-2 championship
Results
Event standings Driver Co-driver Team Car Class Time Points Overall classification 1 1 Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia Volkswagen Motorsport Volkswagen Polo R WRC WRC 4:19:13.4 0.00 2 4 Mads Østberg Jonas Andersson Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT Citroën DS3 WRC WRC 4:20:32.2 +1:18.8 18 3 9 Andreas Mikkelsen Ola Fløene Volkswagen Motorsport II Volkswagen Polo R WRC WRC 4:20:38.5 +1:25.1 4 5 Elfyn Evans Daniel Barritt M-Sport World Rally Team Ford Fiesta RS WRC WRC 4:22:53.6 +3:40.2 12 5 8 Dani Sordo Marc Martí Hyundai Motorsport Hyundai i20 WRC WRC 4:24:15.2 +5:01.8 10 6 21 Martin Prokop Jan Tománek Jipocar Czech National Team Ford Fiesta RS WRC WRC 4:25:49.5 +6:36.1 8 7 39 Nasser Al-Attiyah Matthieu Baumel Nasser Al-Attiyah Ford Fiesta RRC WRC-2 4:34:06.1 +14:52.7 6 8 7 Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul Hyundai Motorsport Hyundai i20 WRC WRC 4:41:56.7 +22:43.3 9 41 Nicolás Fuchs Fernando Mussano Nicolás Fuchs Ford Fiesta R5 WRC-2 4:42:02.4 +22:49.0 2 10 40 Jari Ketomaa Kaj Lindström Drive DMACK Ford Fiesta R5 WRC-2 4:42:23.6 +23:10.2 1 WRC-2 standings 1 (7.) 39 Nasser Al-Attiyah Matthieu Baumel Nasser Al-Attiyah Ford Fiesta RRC WRC-2 4:34:06.1 0.0 25 2 (9.) 41 Nicolás Fuchs Fernando Mussano Nicolás Fuchs Ford Fiesta R5 WRC-2 4:42:02.4 +7:56.3 18 3 (10.) 40 Jari Ketomaa Kaj Lindström Drive DMACK Ford Fiesta R5 WRC-2 4:42:23.6 +8:17.5 15 4 (11.) 36 Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari Marshall Clarke Youth & Sports Qatar Rally Team Fod Fiesta RRC WRC-2 4:42:58.2 +8:52.1 12 5 (13.) 38 Yuriy Protasov Pavlo Cherepin Yuriy Protasov Ford Fiesta RRC WRC-2 4:52:44.2 +18:38.1 10 6 (14.) 33 Massimiliano Rendina Mario Pizzuti Motorsport Italia Srl Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X WRC-2 4:57:19.9 +23:13.8 8 7 (19.) 35 Jourdan Serderidis Frédéric Miclotte Jourdan Serderidis Citroën DS3 R5 WRC-2 5:17:21.8 +43:15.7 6 Source:
Special stages
Championship standings after the race
WRC
Drivers' Championship standings Driver Points 1 Sébastien Ogier 81 2 Andreas Mikkelsen 47 3 Thierry Neuville 35 4 Mads Østberg 32 5 Elfyn Evans 26
Manufacturers' Championship standings Constructor Points 1 Volkswagen Motorsport 99 2 Hyundai Motorsport 75 3 M-Sport World Rally Team 48 4 Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT 42 5 Jipocar Czech National Team 20
Other
WRC2 Drivers' Championship standings Driver Points 1 Jari Ketomaa 40 2 Stéphane Lefebvre 25 3 Nasser Al-Attiyah 25 4 Craig Breen 18 5 Eyvind Brynildsen 18
WRC3 Drivers' Championship standings Driver Points 1 Ole Christian Veiby 40 2 Quentin Gilbert 25 3 Christian Riedemann 18 4 Simone Tempestini 12 5 Stéphane Consani 10
JWRC Drivers' Championship standings Driver Points 1 Quentin Gilbert 25 2 Christian Riedemann 18 3 Ole Christian Veiby 15 4 Simone Tempestini 12 5 Yohan Rossel 10
References
External links
The official website of the World Rally Championship