2020 Monte Carlo Rally
The 2020 Monte Carlo Rally (also known as the 88e Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 23 and 26 January 2020. It marked the eighty-eighth running of the Monte Carlo Rally, and was the first round of the 2020 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. The 2020 event was based in the town of Gap in the Hautes-Alpes department of France and consisted of sixteen special stages. The rally covered a total competitive distance of 304.28 km (189.07 mi).
| 2020 Monte Carlo Rally 88e Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo | ||
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Round 1 of 7 in the 2020 World Rally Championship
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The Monte Carlo Rally is run on a mixture of tarmac and snow stages. | ||
| Host country | Monaco | |
| Rally base | Gap, Hautes-Alpes | |
| Dates run | 23 – 26 January 2020 | |
| Start location | Quai Albert, Monaco | |
| Finish location | Casino Square, Monaco | |
| Stages | 16 (304.28 km; 189.07 miles) | |
| Stage surface | Tarmac and snow | |
| Transport distance | 1,201.36 km (746.49 miles) | |
| Overall distance | 1,505.64 km (935.56 miles) | |
| Statistics | ||
| Crews registered | 88 | |
| Crews | 85 at start, 73 at finish | |
| Overall results | ||
| Overall winner | Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT 3:10:57.6 | |
| Power Stage winner | Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT 9:39.0 | |
| Support category results | ||
| WRC-2 winner | Mads Østberg Torstein Eriksen PH-Sport 3:25:19.4 | |
| WRC-3 winner | Eric Camilli François-Xavier Buresi 3:24:39.8 | |
Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were the defending rally winners. The Citroën World Rally Team, the team they drove for in 2019, were the reigning manufacturers' winners, but were not defending their title after parent company Citroën withdrew from the sport. Gus Greensmith and Elliott Edmondson were the defending winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category, but were not defending their WRC-2 title as they joined the WRC category in 2020. In the World Rally Championship-3 category, French privateers Yoann Bonato and Benjamin Boulloud were the reigning rally winners.
Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the overall winners of the rally, winning the Monte Carlo rally for the first time. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturers' winners. Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen were the winners in the WRC-2 category, while Eric Camilli and François-Xavier Buresi were the winners in the WRC-3 category.