2019 Tour de Corse
The 2019 Tour de Corse (also known as the Corsica Linea – Tour de Corse 2019) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 28 and 31 March 2019. It marked the sixty-second running of Tour de Corse and was the fourth round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and the newly-created WRC-2 Pro class. It was also the second round of the Junior World Rally Championship. The 2019 event was based in the town of Bastia in Corsica, and was contested over fourteen special stages with a total a competitive distance of 347.51 km (215.93 mi).
| 2019 Tour de Corse 62e Corsica Linea – Tour de Corse | |||
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Round 4 of 14 in the 2019 World Rally Championship
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The Tour de Corse is the first full tarmac event on the 2019 calendar. | |||
| Host country | France | ||
| Rally base | Bastia, Corsica | ||
| Dates run | 28 – 31 March 2019 | ||
| Start location | Alta-Rocca, Corse-du-Sud | ||
| Finish location | Calvi, Haute-Corse | ||
| Stages | 14 (347.51 km; 215.93 miles) | ||
| Stage surface | Tarmac | ||
| Transport distance | 846.55 km (526.02 miles) | ||
| Overall distance | 1,194.06 km (741.95 miles) | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Crews registered | 96 | ||
| Crews | 92 at start, 68 at finish | ||
| Overall results | |||
| Overall winner | Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT 3:22:59.0 | ||
| Power Stage winner | Kris Meeke Sebastian Marshall Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT | ||
| Support category results | |||
| WRC-2 winner | Fabio Andolfi Simone Scattolin Fabio Andolfi 3:34:28.6 | ||
| J-WRC winner | Julius Tannert Jürgen Heigl ADAC Sachsen 3:52:10.0 | ||
Reigning World Drivers' and World Co-Drivers' Champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were the defending rally winners. M-Sport Ford WRT, the team they drove for in 2018, were the defending manufacturers' winners. Jan Kopecký and Pavel Dresler were the defending winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category, but they did not participate in the event. Jean-Baptiste Franceschi and Romain Courbon were the reigning World Rally Championship-3 and defending Junior World Rally Championship winners, but did not defend their titles as they did not take part in the rally.
Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul won the Rally Corsica for the second time in their career. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturers' winners. The M-Sport Ford WRT crew of Łukasz Pieniążek and Kamil Heller won the WRC-2 Pro category, while the Italian crew of Fabio Andolfi and Simone Scattolin won the wider WRC-2 class, finishing first in the combined WRC-2 category. The second round of the J-WRC championship was taken by the ADAC Sachsen crew of Julius Tannert and Jürgen Heigl.