2025 WRC3 Championship

The 2025 FIA WRC3 Championship is the twelfth season of WRC3, a rallying championship for organised and governed by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile as the third-highest tier of international rallying. It is open to privateers and teams using cars complying with Group Rally3 regulations.^[1] The championship began in January 2025 with the Monte Carlo Rally and would conclude in November 2025 with the Rally Saudi Arabia, and runs in support of the 2025 World Rally Championship.

Diego Dominguez Jr. and Rogelio Peñate were the defending drivers' and co-drivers' champions.^[2] Matteo Fontana and Alessandro Arnaboldi became the 2025 WRC3 champions.

The 2025 season was contested over fourteen rounds across Europe, Africa, South America and Asia.

Round	Start date	Finish date	Rally	Rally headquarters	Surface	Stages	Distance	Ref.
1	23 January	26 January	Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo	Gap, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France	Mixed[a]	18	343.80 km	[3]
2	13 February	16 February	Rally Sweden	Umeå, Västerbotten County, Sweden	Snow	18	300.22 km	[4]
3	20 March	23 March	Safari Rally Kenya	Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya	Gravel	21	383.10 km	[5]
4	24 April	27 April	Rally Islas Canarias	Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain	Tarmac	18	301.30 km	[6]
5	15 May	18 May	Rally de Portugal	Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal	Gravel	24	344.50 km	[7]
6	5 June	8 June	Rally Italia Sardegna	Olbia, Sardinia, Italy	Gravel	16	320.24 km	[8]
7	26 June	29 June	Acropolis Rally Greece	Lamia, Central Greece, Greece	Gravel	17	345.76 km	[9]
8	17 July	20 July	Rally Estonia	Tartu, Tartu County, Estonia	Gravel	20	308.35 km	[10]
9	31 July	3 August	Rally Finland	Jyväskylä, Central Finland, Finland	Gravel	20	307.22 km	[11]
10	28 August	31 August	Rally del Paraguay	Encarnación, Itapúa, Paraguay	Gravel	19	333.18 km	[12]
11	11 September	14 September	Rally Chile	Concepción, Biobío, Chile	Gravel	16	306.76 km	[13]
12	16 October	19 October	Central European Rally	Bad Griesbach, Bavaria, Germany	Tarmac	18	306.08 km	[14]
13	6 November	9 November	Rally Japan	Toyota, Aichi, Japan	Tarmac	20	305.34 km	[15]
14	26 November	29 November	Rally Saudi Arabia	Jeddah, Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia	Gravel	17	319.44 km	[16]
Sources:[17][18]

A map showing the locations of the rallies in the 2025 championship. Event headquarters are marked with black dots.

The calendar was expanded to fourteen rounds, including five flyaway events.^[19] This was originally planned for the 2024 season,^[20] but WRC Promoter GmbH retained the total of thirteen events in the hopes of attracting more Rally1 entries.^[21]

• Rally Estonia returned to the championship after missing the 2024 season.^[22] The event replaced Rally Latvia on the calendar.^[23]
• Rally Islas Canarias was promoted from the European Rally Championship and became a World Championship event under a two-year deal.^[24] The event ran on tarmac roads.^[25]
• Rally Saudi Arabia joined the championship calendar after signing a ten-year contract with WRC Promoter GmbH.^[26] The rally was based in Jeddah, and was the season finale.^[27]
• Rally del Paraguay became a WRC event from 2025 after signing a multi-year deal, making Paraguay the thirty-eighth nation to host a WRC championship round.^[28]
• The Croatia Rally was not featured on the calendar for the first time since the event joined the championship in 2021.^[29] However, the event is set to return in 2026.^[30]
• Rally Poland was also removed from the calendar after making a one-year return to the championship in 2024.^[31]

The following crews are set to enter the 2025 WRC3 Championship:

Car	Entrant	Driver name	Co-driver name	Rounds
Ford Fiesta Rally3	Castrol Ford Team Türkiye	Ali Türkkan	Oytun Albayrak	2, 5, 7, 9, 12
	FIA Rally Star	Taylor Gill	Daniel Brkic	2, 5, 7, 9, 12
		Max Smart	Cameron Fair	2
			Malcolm Read	5, 7, 9, 12
	LightGrey Team	Joosep Ralf Nõgene	Aleks Lesk	2, 5
	Team Petrol Ofisi	Kerem Kazaz	Corentin Silvestre	2, 5–9, 12
	WRC Young Driver Team	Claire Schönborn	Jara Hain	2, 5
			Michael Wenzel	7, 9, 12
		Lyssia Baudet	Léa Sam-Caw-Freve	2
	Past Racing	Federico Ensslin	Alejandro López	5
	Motorsport Ireland Rally Academy	John Coyne	Killian McArdle	9
	Team Flying Finn	Aatu Hakalehto	Joonas Ojala	9
	Entered under driver's name	Diego Domínguez Jr.	Rogelio Peñate	1–2, 5, 7, 9, 12
		Ghjuvanni Rossi	Kylian Sarmezan	1, 4–5, 10–11
		Slaven Šekuljica	Damir Petrović	1
			Viljem Ošlaj	6
			Marko Šivak	12
		Matteo Fontana	Alessandro Arnaboldi	1–2, 6, 10–11
		Adam Grahn	Maja Bengtsson	2
		Georgios Vasilakis	Allan Harryman	2, 7, 10–11
		André Martínez	Matías Aranguren	2, 5–6, 8, 10–11
		Tristan Charpentier	Florian Barral	2, 5
		Nikhil Sachania	Deep Patel	3
		Naveen Puligilla	Musa Sherif	3
		Nataniel Bruun	Pablo Olmos	4–6, 8, 10–11
		Igor Widłak	Michał Marczewski	4
		Giorgos Delaportas	Evangelos Panaritis	7
		Stephanos Theocharopoulos	Giorgos Kotsalis	7
		Tymoteusz Abramowski	Jakub Wróbel	8
		Grzegorz Bonder	Łukasz Jastrzębski	8–9
		Eduardo Castro	Julio Echazú	10–11
		Ignacio Gardiol	Ignacio Uez	11
		Felipe Padilla	Sebastián Olguín	11
		Patricio Muñoz	Miguel Recalt	11
		Carlos Prieto	Juan Cruz Varela	11
		Eduardo Kovacs	Alberto Alvarez	11
Renault Clio Rally3	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT NG	Takumi Matsushita	Pekka Kelander	2, 4–5, 9
			Ville Mannisenmäki	8
		Shotaro Goto	Jussi Lindberg	2, 4–5, 8–9
	C.D. Todo Sport	Jonás Pérez	Benito Sacramento	4
	Entered under driver's name	Mattéo Chatillon	Maxence Cornuau	1–2, 4–6, 9
		Arthur Pelamourgues	Bastien Pouget	1, 4–5, 8–9
		Yanis Desangles	Nicolas Théron	1
		Eric Royère	Alexis Grenier	1–2
		Ville Vatanen	Jarno Ottman	2, 9
		Leevi Lassila	Antti Linnaketo	2, 9
		Tom Pellerey	Hervé Faucher	5–6, 9, 12
		Efthimios Halkias	Nikos Komnos	7
		Giorgos Dodos	Nikos Intzoglou	7
		Joosep Ralf Nõgene	Aleks Lesk	9
		Ville Pynnönen	Niklas Heino	9
		Timo Weigert	Jasmin Weigert	9
Sources:[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]

Round	Event	Winning driver	Winning co-driver	Winning entrant	Winning time	Report	Ref.
1	Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo	Arthur Pelamourges	Bastien Pouget	Arthur Pelamourges	3:44:44.9	Report	[44]
2	Rally Sweden	Taylor Gill	Daniel Brkic	FIA Rally Star	2:51:17.7	Report	[45]
3	Safari Rally Kenya	Nikhil Sachania	Deep Patel	Nikhil Sachania	7:04:36.9	Report
4	Rally Islas Canarias	Mattéo Chatillon	Maxence Cornuau	Mattéo Chatillon	3:14:39.9	Report
5	Rally de Portugal	Taylor Gill	Daniel Brkic	FIA Rally Star	4:15:07.3	Report
6	Rally Italia Sardegna	Matteo Fontana	Alessandro Arnaboldi	Matteo Fontana	4:03:55.4	Report	[46]
7	Acropolis Rally Greece	Ali Türkkan	Oytun Albayrak	Castrol Ford Team Türkiye	4:39:31.7	Report	[47]
8	Rally Estonia	Takumi Matsushita	Ville Mannisenmäki	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT NG	3:00:39.2	Report	[48]
9	Rally Finland	Taylor Gill	Daniel Brkic	FIA Rally Star	2:41:29.9	Report
10	Rally del Paraguay	Matteo Fontana	Alessandro Arnaboldi	Matteo Fontana	3:25:35.7	Report	[49]
11	Rally Chile	Matteo Fontana	Alessandro Arnaboldi	Matteo Fontana	3:21:07.2	Report	[50]
12	Central European Rally	Taylor Gill	Daniel Brkic	FIA Rally Star	2:54:29.4	Report
13	Rally Japan	Ghjuvanni Rossi	Kylian Sarmezan	Ghjuvanni Rossi	3:51:56.6	Report	[51]
14	Rally Saudi Arabia	Matteo Fontana	Alessandro Arnaboldi	Matteo Fontana	3:50:14.8	Report	[52]

Pos. Driver MON SWE KEN ESP POR ITA GRE EST FIN PAR CHL EUR JPN SAU Points 1 Matteo Fontana 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 134 2 Taylor Gill 1 1 2 1 1 117 3 Ghjuvanni Rossi 3 3 7 2 Ret 1 77 4 Kerem Kazaz 5 2 5 4 Ret 7 2 72 5 Arthur Pelamourges 1 2 11 5 6 60 6 Nataniel Bruun 8 4 2 Ret 5 2 60 7 Ali Türkkan 3 9 1 2 Ret 59 8 Takumi Matsushita 4 4 6 1 Ret 57 9 Diego Dominguez Jr. 4 13 8 3 8 3 50 10 André Martinez 14 17 3 3 6 6 46 11 Georgios Vasilakis 12 10 4 9 4 5 37 12 Eduardo Castro 3 3 30 13 Mattéo Chatillon Ret 8 1 Ret Ret 16 29 14 Nikhil Sachania 1 25 15 Max Smart 12 3 6 10 Ret 24 16 Eric Royère 6 11 3 23 17 Shotaro Goto Ret 5 WD 4 11 22 18 Claire Schönborn 7 13 8 12 4 22 19 Grzegorz Bonder 2 15 17 20 Naveen Puligilla Ret 2 17 21 Ville Vatanen 15 3 15 22 Saeed Al-Mouri 3 15 23 Timo Weigert 4 14 12 24 Aatu Hakalehto 4 12 25 Ignacio Gardiol 4 12 26 Burcu Çetinkaya 4 12 27 Joosep Ralf Nõgene 16 5 Ret 10 28 Leevi Lassila Ret 5 10 29 Yanis Desangles 5 10 30 Efthimios Halkias 5 10 31 Felipe Padilla 5 10 32 Adam Grahn 6 8 33 Igor Widłak 6 8 34 Slaven Šekuljica 7 Ret 6 35 Jonás Pérez 7 6 36 Giorgos Delaportas 7 6 37 Carlos Prieto 7 6 38 Eduardo Kovacs Bauer 8 4 39 Lyssia Baudet 9 2 40 Giorgos Dodos 9 2 41 Ville Pynnönen 9 2 42 Tristan Charpentier 10 12 1 43 Tom Pellerey 10 13 Ret 1 Pos. Driver MON SWE KEN ESP POR ITA GRE EST FIN PAR CHL EUR JPN SAU Points Sources:[53]

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Excluded (EX) Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Cancelled (C) Blank Withdrew entry from the event (WD)

Pos. Co-driver MON SWE KEN ESP POR ITA GRE EST FIN PAR CHL EUR JPN SAU Points 1 Alessandro Arnaboldi 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 134 2 Daniel Brkic 1 1 2 1 1 117 3 Kylian Sarmezan 3 3 7 2 Ret 1 78 4 Corentin Silvestre 5 2 5 4 Ret 7 2 72 5 Bastien Pouget 1 2 11 5 6 60 6 Pablo Olmos 8 4 2 Ret 5 2 60 7 Oytun Albaykar 3 9 1 2 Ret 59 8 Rogelio Peñate 4 13 8 3 8 3 50 9 Matias Aranguren 14 17 3 3 6 6 46 10 Allan Harryman 12 10 4 9 4 5 37 11 Pekka Kelander 4 4 6 Ret 32 12 Julio Echazú 3 3 30 13 Maxence Cornuau Ret 8 1 Ret Ret 16 29 14 Deep Patel 1 25 15 Ville Mannisenmäki 1 25 16 Malcolm Read 3 6 10 Ret 24 17 Alexis Grenier 6 11 3 23 18 Musa Sherif Ret 2 17 19 Łukasz Jastrzębski 2 17 20 Michael Wenzel 8 12 4 16 21 Jarno Ottman 15 3 15 22 Saeed Al-Mouri 3 15 23 Jasmine Weigert 4 12 24 Joonas Ojala 4 12 25 Ignacio Uez Ahumada 4 12 26 Fabrizia Pons 4 12 27 Jussi Lindberg Ret 5 WD 11 10 28 Aleks Lesk 16 5 Ret 10 29 Antti Linnaketo Ret 5 10 30 Nicolas Théron 5 10 31 Nikos Komnos 5 10 32 Sebastián Olguín 5 10 33 Maja Bengtsson 6 8 34 Michał Marczewski 6 8 35 Jara Hain 7 13 6 36 Damir Petrović 7 Ret 6 37 Damián Sacramento 7 6 38 Evangelos Panaritis 7 6 39 Juan Cruz Varela 7 6 40 Alberto Alvarez 8 4 41 Léa Sam-Caw-Freve 9 2 42 Nikos Intzoglou 9 2 43 Niklas Heino 9 2 44 Florian Barral 10 12 1 45 Hervé Faucher 10 13 Ret 1 Pos. Co-driver MON SWE KEN ESP POR ITA GRE EST FIN PAR CHL EUR JPN SAU Points Sources:[54]

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Excluded (EX) Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Cancelled (C) Blank Withdrew entry from the event (WD)

• Official website (in English, French, and Spanish)
• FIA WRC3 Championship 2025 at eWRC-results.com