The World Rally Championship of 1973 - the first World Rally Championship under the auspices of the FIA. It consisted of 13 rally stages that took place in different countries of the world. Many of these stages are held to this day - for example, the Monte Carlo Rally , the Rally of Sweden , the Rally of Corsica , the Rally of Great Britain . Most of the stages took place on gravel. Two asphalt stages and one snow. In addition, there were stages with a mixed coating.
| 1st World Rally Championship | |
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| Manufacturers credit |  Alpine-Renault |
The first championship was held only among manufacturing teams, there was no personal pilot record. The victory was confidently won by the Alpine-Renault team, the Fiat team took the second place, the third was Ford . This victory for Alpine-Renault was the first and only - Lancia and Fiat took the lead in subsequent seasons. French teams won no titles until 1985 , when the Peugeot team won the manufacturers championship.
Points were awarded to teams on the system: if the pilots of one team took 1, 3, and 10th places, the team will receive only points for the first place, points for the third and tenth will not be given to anyone.
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Championship Stages
| Black = Asphalt | Brown = Gravel | Blue = Snow | Red = Mixed |
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| Stage | Name of the rally | Special plots | Podium | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position | Pilot | Car | Time | |||
| one | Monte Carlo Rally (January 19-26) | 18 sites 420 km Asphalt | one | Jean-Claude Andre | Alpine Renault A110 | 5:42:04 |
| 2 | Ove andersson | Alpine Renault A110 | 5:42:30 | |||
| 3 | Jean-Pierre Nicolas | Alpine Renault A110 | 5:43:39 | |||
| 2 | Sweden Rally (February 15-18) | 36 plots 760 km Snow / Ice | one | Stig Blomquist | Saab 96 V4 | 9:18:31 |
| 2 | Per Eklund | Saab 96 V4 | 9:20:53 | |||
| 3 | Jean-Luc Terje | Alpine Renault A110 | 9:34:12 | |||
| 3 | Portugal Rally (March 13-18) | 32 plots 387 km Asphalt \ Gravel | one | Jean-Luc Terje | Alpine Renault A110 | 5:42:16 |
| 2 | Jean-Pierre Nicolas | Alpine Renault A110 | 5:48:57 | |||
| 3 | Francisco Romazinho | CitroΓ«n DS21 | 6:07:48 | |||
| four | Rally Safari (April 19-23) | 56 plots 5300 km Gravel | one | Shekhar Mehta | Datsun 240Z | +6: 46 (fine) |
| 2 | Harri kalstrΓΆm | Datsun 1800 SSS | +6: 46 (fine) | |||
| 3 | Ove andersson | Peugeot 504 | +8: 47 (fine) | |||
| five | Rally Morocco (May 8-13) | 27 plots 1210 km Asphalt \ Gravel | one | Bernard Darnish | Alpine Renault A110 | 15:01:22 |
| 2 | Bob neyre | CitroΓ«n DS23 | 15:20:04 | |||
| 3 | Richard Bochnichek | CitroΓ«n DS23 | 15:34:37 | |||
| 6 | Acropolis Rally (May 23-28) | 549 km Gravel | one | Jean-Luc Terje | Alpine Renault A110 | 7:37:58 |
| 2 | Rauno Aaltonen | Fiat Abarth 124 | 7:44:59 | |||
| 3 | Jean-Pierre Nicolas | Alpine Renault A110 | 7:45:56 | |||
| 7 | Poland Rally (July 12β15) | 55 sites 734 km Asphalt \ Gravel | one | Achim Warmbold | Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye | 8:28:14 |
| 2 | Egon Kulmbacher | Wartburg 353 | 11:15:16 | |||
| 3 | Maciej Stavovyak | Polski Fiat 125p | 12:08:31 | |||
| eight | Thousand Lakes Rally (3-5 August) | 43 plots 517 km Gravel | one | Timo MΓ€kinen | Ford Escort RS1600 | 4:53:50 |
| 2 | Markku Alen | Volvo 142 | 4:55:59 | |||
| 3 | Leo Kinnunen | Porsche 911 | 4:57:12 | |||
| 9 | Austria Rally (September 12-14) | 27 plots 310 km Gravel | one | Achim Warmbold | BMW 2002Tii | 3: 58: 55.5 |
| 2 | Bernard Darnish | Alpine Renault A110 | 4: 00: 10.1 | |||
| 3 | Per Eklund | Saab 96 V4 | 4:00 am 11.2 | |||
| ten | Rally San Remo (October 10β13) | 37 Plots 520 km Asphalt \ Gravel | one | Jean-Luc Terje | Alpine Renault A110 | 8:01:32 |
| 2 | Maurizio Verini | Fiat Abarth 124 | 08:07:34 | |||
| 3 | Jean-Pierre Nicolas | Alpine Renault A110 | 8:21:37 | |||
| eleven | Rally USA "Rally Independent Press" (October 31 β November 4) | Gravel | one | Walter Boyce | Toyota Corolla | 6:58: 28.2 |
| 2 | Jim Walker | Volvo 142S | 7:22: 43.2 | |||
| 3 | John Smyscol | Datsun 240Z | 7: 33: 36.0 | |||
| 12 | UK Rally (November 17β21) | Gravel \ Asphalt | one | Timo MΓ€kinen | Ford Escort RS1600 | 6:47:08 |
| 2 | Roger Clark | Ford Escort RS1600 | 6:52:23 | |||
| 3 | Markku Alen | Ford Escort RS1600 | 06:55:26 | |||
| 13 | Corsica Rally (December 1-2) | 13 sites 372 km Asphalt | one | Jean-Pierre Nicolas | Alpine Renault A110 | 5:06:31 |
| 2 | Jean-Francois Pio | Alpine Renault A110 | 5:14:37 | |||
| 3 | Jean-Luc Terje | Alpine Renault A110 | 5:18:46 | |||
Championship
| Points at the finish | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 15 | 12 | ten | eight | 6 | four | 3 | 2 | one |
Manufacturers Championship
| A place | Manufacturer | Mk | SHVE | Por | SAF | IDA | ACRE | FLOOR | Fin | AVT | CP | USA | FBG | KOR | Glasses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one | Alpine-Renault | one | 3 | one | one | one | Descent | 2 | one | (five) | one | 147 | |||
| 2 | Fiat | 7 | five | four | (eight) | 6 | 2 | one | (eight) | 6 | 2 | (ten) | 84 | ||
| 3 | Ford | four | 9 | 14 | 7 | Descent | one | four | one | four | 76 | ||||
| four | Volvo | 9 | 9 | 2 | 2 | four | 44 | ||||||||
| five | Saab | 37 | one | four | 3 | Descent | 42 | ||||||||
| 6 | Datsun | 9 | nineteen | eleven | one | eleven | Descent | 3 | 14 | 22 | 34 | ||||
| 7 | CitroΓ«n | 3 | 2 | 6 | Descent | 33 | |||||||||
| eight | BMW | 17 | 7 | 13 | Descent | Descent | 17 | one | 51 | 7 | 28 | ||||
| 9 | Porsche | 46 | five | Descent | Descent | 3 | 7 | 22 | eight | 27 | |||||
| ten | Toyota | 23 | Descent | 9 | Descent | eight | one | 12 | 25 | ||||||
| eleven | Opel | 12 | ten | 7 | DKV | eleven | five | 13 | 9 | Descent | 6 | 7 | 25 | ||
| 12 | Polki fiat | 35 | 3 | 6 | 18 | ||||||||||
| 13 | Lancia | eight | four | 7 | Descent | 17 | |||||||||
| 14 | Wartburg | 38 | 2 | 39 | 15 | ||||||||||
| 15 | Volkswagen | 6 | nineteen | 12 | five | ten | 15 | ||||||||
| sixteen | Peugeot | Descent | 3 | ten | 22 | 13 | |||||||||
| 17 | Mitsubishi | 7 | four | ||||||||||||
| 18 | Ε koda | eight | 15 | 3 | |||||||||||
| nineteen | Alfa romeo | nineteen | 17 | Descent | 13 | 9 | 2 | ||||||||
| 20 | Audi | 51 | ten | ten | 2 | ||||||||||
| A place | Manufacturer | Mk | SHVE | Por | SAF | IDA | ACRE | FLOOR | Fin | AVT | CP | USA | FBG | KOR | Glasses |
- Points in brackets were not taken into account in the final count.
| CHAMPIONSHIP PILOTS (virtual, not conducted) | |||||||||||||||||
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| A place | Pilot | Team | Glasses | Victories | Mk | SHVE | Por | SAF | IDA | ACRE | FLOOR | Fin | AVT | CP | USA | FBG | KOR |
| one | Jean-Luc Terje | Alpine-Renault | 96 | 3 | eight | 12 | 20 | - | four | 20 | - | - | - | 20 | - | - | 12 |
| 2 | Jean-Pierre Nicolas | Alpine-Renault | 95 | one | 12 | - | 15 | - | eight | 12 | - | - | eight | 12 | - | eight | 20 |
| 3 | Achim Warmbold | Fiat & BMW | 43 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | 3 | 20 | - | - | - | - |
| four | Timo MΓ€kinen | Ford | 40 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | - | - | - | 20 | - |
| five | Bernard Darnish | Alpine-Renault | 36 | one | one | - | - | - | 20 | - | - | - | 15 | - | - | - | - |
| 6 | Ove andersson | Alpine-Renault & Peugeot & Toyota | thirty | - | 15 | - | - | 12 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - |
| 7 | Harri kalstrΓΆm | Lancia & datsun | 28 | - | 3 | ten | - | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| eight | Per Eklund | Saab | 27 | - | - | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | - | - | - | - |
| 9 | Markku Alen | Volvo & Ford | 27 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | - | - | - | 12 | - |
| ten | Bjorn Waldegaard | Volkswagen & Fiat & BMW | 26 | - | - | 6 | - | - | 6 | - | - | - | ten | - | - | four | - |