2026 WRC3 Championship

2026 FIA WRC3 Championship

Drivers' Champion:
Matteo Fontana
Co-drivers' Champion:
Alessandro Arnaboldi

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2025

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2027

Parent series:
FIA World Rally Championship
FIA WRC2 Championship
Support series:
FIA Junior WRC Championship

The 2026 FIA WRC3 Championship was the thirteenth 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 was opened to privateers and teams using cars complying with Group Rally3 regulations. The championship began in January 2026 with the Monte Carlo Rally and concluded in October 2026 with the Rally Italia Sardegna, and run in support of the 2026 World Rally Championship.

Calendar

The 2026 season was scheduled to be contested over fourteen rounds across Europe, Africa, South America and Asia, but it was ultimately reduced to thirteen rounds.

Round	Start date	Finish date	Rally	Rally headquarters	Surface	Stages	Distance	Ref.
1	22 January	25 January	Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo	Gap, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France	Mixed	17	339.15 km
2	12 February	15 February	Rally Sweden	Umeå, Västerbotten County, Sweden	Snow	18	300.66 km
3	12 March	15 March	Safari Rally Kenya	Nairobi, Nakuru County, Kenya	Gravel	20	350.52 km
4	9 April	12 April	Croatia Rally	Rijeka, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia	Tarmac	20	300.28 km
5	23 April	26 April	Rally Islas Canarias	Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain	Tarmac	18	322.04 km
6	7 May	10 May	Rally de Portugal	Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal	Gravel	23	344.91 km
7	28 May	31 May	Rally Japan	Toyota, Aichi, Japan	Tarmac	20	302.82 km
8	25 June	28 June	Acropolis Rally Greece	Loutraki, Corinthia, Greece	Gravel	17	323.31 km
9	16 July	19 July	Rally Estonia	Tartu, Estonia	Gravel	18	301.80 km
10	30 July	2 August	Rally Finland	Jyväskylä, Central Finland, Finland	Gravel	20	316.60 km
11	27 August	30 August	Rally del Paraguay	Encarnación, Itapúa, Paraguay	Gravel	22	358.88 km
12	10 September	13 September	Rally Chile	Talcahuano, Biobío, Chile	Gravel	16	311.70 km
13	1 October	4 October	Rally Italia Sardegna	Alghero, Sardinia, Italy	Gravel	17	306.92 km
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The 2026 Rally Saudi Arabia was included on the original calendar published by WRC Promoter GmbH and was scheduled to be the fourteenth round of the championship, but was later removed from the season:

Start date	Finish date	Rally	Rally headquarters	Surface	Stages	Distance	Removal reason	Ref.
11 November	14 November	Rally Saudi Arabia	Jeddah, Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia	Gravel	16	320.34 km	2026 Iran war
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A map showing the locations of the rallies in the 2026 championship. Event headquarters were marked with black dots. Removed event was marked with a red dot.

Calendar changes

The Croatia Rally returned to the championship after being held as a European Rally Championship event in 2025.

• The Croatia Rally returned to the championship after missing the 2025 season, replacing the Central European Rally. The rally featured new headquarters in Rijeka, instead of Zagreb and a brand new set of mixed tarmac stages.
• The Italian Rally and Rally Japan swapped calendar slots, and the new Rally di Roma Capitale was confirmed to replace the Rally Italia Sardegna from 2027 onwards.
• The organisers of the Acropolis Rally announced a change of its headquarters, with Loutraki serving as the new base after five years in Lamia.
• The Rally Saudi Arabia was set to hold the season finale, but it was removed from the calendar in September due to the 2026 Iran war. An all-gravel round in Catalonia, Spain was reportedly mooted as a replacement, however this did not materialise as the deadline for its confirmation was not met.

Entrants

The following crews were set to enter the WRC3 Championship in 2026:

Car	Entrant	Driver name	Co-driver name	Rounds
Ford Fiesta Rally3	Castrol Ford Team Türkiye	Ali Türkkan	Oytun Albayrak	2, 4, 6
	Team Petrol Ofisi	Kerem Kazaz	Corentin Silvestre	2, 4, 6
	Entered under driver's name	Matteo Fontana	Alessandro Arnaboldi	1–2, 4, 6, 8
		Ghjuvanni Rossi	Kylian Sarmezan	1, 4–5, 7
		Eric Royère	Alexis Grenier	1–2
			Maxime Andernack	6
		Jean-Christophe Guibert	Laurent Gracial	1
		Tymoteusz Abramowski	Jakub Wróbel	2, 5
		André Martínez	Matías Aranguren	2, 6
		Georgios Vasilakis	Allan Harryman	2–3, 7–8
		Nicolas Otto	Hugo Magalhães	2, 4–5, 7
		Raúl Hernández	José Murado	2, 4–6
		Gil Membrado	Adrián Pérez	2, 4–6
		Nataniel Bruun	Sergio Fernández	3
			Javier Martínez	6, 8
		Naveen Puligilla	Musa Sherif	3
		Nikhil Sachania	Deep Patel	3
		Dean Mascarenhas	Gagan Karumbaiah	5
		Tymek Abramowski	Jakub Wróbel	8
		Grzegorz Bonder	Kamil Heller	8
		"Flandy"	Konstantinos Stefanis	8
		Nikolaos Ntavaris	Konstantinos Makris	8
Renault Clio Rally3	Escudería Daute Realejos	Santiago Pérez	Benito Sacramento	5
	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT NG	Jarkko Nikara	Tomiya Maekawa	6
	Entered under driver's name	Olivier Courtois	Hubert Risser	1
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Results and standings

Season summary

Round	Event	Winning driver	Winning co-driver	Winning entrant	Winning time	Report	Ref.
1	Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo	Eric Royère	Alexis Grenier	Eric Royère	5:36:47.5	Report
2	Rally Sweden	Matteo Fontana	Alessandro Arnaboldi	Matteo Fontana	2:54:30.5	Report
3	Safari Rally Kenya	Georgios Vasilakis	Allan Harryman	Georgios Vasilakis	4:25:07.7	Report
4	Croatia Rally	Ali Türkkan	Oytun Albayrak	Castrol Ford Team Türkiye	3:07:01.1	Report
5	Rally Islas Canarias	Gil Membrado	Adrián Pérez	Gil Membrado	3:03:28.2	Report
6	Rally de Portugal	Matteo Fontana	Alessandro Arnaboldi	Matteo Fontana	4:23:26.8	Report
7	Rally Japan	Ghjuvanni Rossi	Kylian Sarmezan	Ghjuvanni Rossi	3:45:52.5	Report
8	Acropolis Rally Greece	Matteo Fontana	Alessandro Arnaboldi	Matteo Fontana	4:08:21.5	Report
9	Rally Estonia	Tymoteusz Abramowski	Jakub Wróbel	Tymoteusz Abramowski	2:52:35.5	Report
10	Rally Finland	Gil Membrado	Adrián Pérez	Gil Membrado	2:48:29.0	Report
11	Rally del Paraguay	Nataniel Bruun	Mario Javier del Riego	Nataniel Bruun	3:42:02.3	Report
12	Rally Chile	Ali Türkkan	Bilge Ayan	Castrol Ford Team Türkiye	3:19:14.9	Report
13	Rally Italia Sardegna	Eric Royère	Maxime Andernack	Eric Royère	4:17:49.2	Report
–	Rally Saudi Arabia	Rally removed (due to the 2026 Iran war)				Report

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	25	17	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

FIA WRC3 Championship for Drivers

Pos. Driver MON SWE KEN CRO ESP POR JPN GRE EST FIN PAR CHL ITA Points 1 Matteo Fontana 2 1 6 1 1 2 117 2 Gil Membrado 4 2 1 4 1 6 99 3 Tymoteusz Abramowski 2 2 2 1 3 WD 91 4 Eric Royère 1 6 6 2 10 1 84 5 Ali Türkkan 8 1 2 7 1 77 6 Nataniel Bruun 4 WD 4 4 11 1 WD 61 7 Nicolas Otto Ret 5 4 2 2 56 8 Ghjuvanni Rossi 3 Ret 3 1 Ret 55 9 André Martinez 5 3 3 Ret 4 52 10 Georgios Vasilakis 7 1 Ret WD 11 2 48 11 Raúl Hernández 3 4 6 5 45 12 Kerem Kazaz 9 3 Ret 6 5 Ret 35 13 Naveen Puligilla 3 3 12 30 14 Jarkko Nikara 7 7 4 24 15 Nikhil Sachania 2 17 16 Felipe Padilla 2 17 17 Andreas Vardinogiannis 3 15 18 Alex Heilbrunn 3 15 19 Kanta Yanaguida 5 Ret 10 20 Eduardo Castro Ret 5 10 21 Santiago Pérez 5 10 22 Nikos Davaris 5 10 23 Dean Mascarenhas 7 Ret 8 10 24 Grzegorz Bonder 6 WD 8 25 Ville Pynnönen 6 8 26 Patricio Muñoz 7 6 27 Riku Tahko 8 4 28 Ismo Leikola 9 2 29 Carlos Prieto 9 2 30 Rio Ogata Ret 10 1 Pos. Driver MON SWE KEN CRO ESP POR JPN GRE EST FIN PAR CHL ITA Points Sources:

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)

FIA WRC3 Championship for Co-Drivers

Pos. Co-driver MON SWE KEN CRO ESP POR JPN GRE EST FIN PAR CHL ITA Points 1 Alessandro Arnaboldi 2 1 6 1 1 2 117 2 Adrián Pérez 4 2 1 4 1 6 99 3 Jakub Wróbel 2 2 2 1 3 WD 91 4 Hugo Magalhães Ret 5 4 2 2 56 5 Kylian Sarmezan 3 Ret 3 1 Ret 55 6 Matias Aranguren 5 3 3 Ret 4 52 7 Maxime Andernack 6 2 10 1 51 8 Allan Harryman 7 1 Ret WD 11 2 48 9 Oytun Albayrak 8 1 2 46 10 José Murado 3 4 6 5 45 11 Corentin Silvestre 9 3 Ret 6 5 Ret 35 12 Alexis Grenier 1 6 33 13 Bilge Ayan 7 1 31 14 Musa Sherif 3 3 12 30 15 Mario Javier del Riego 1 WD 25 16 Tomiya Maekawa 7 7 4 24 17 Deep Patel 2 17 18 Sebastián Olguín 2 17 19 Konstantinos Stefanis 3 15 20 Juan Pedro Cilloniz 3 15 21 Javier Martínez WD 4 12 22 Sergio Fernández Guerra 4 12 23 Pablo Olmos 4 11 12 24 Benito Sacramento 5 10 25 Konstantinos Makris 5 10 26 Juho Koski-Lammi 5 10 27 Javiera Roman Ret 5 10 28 Gagan Karumbaiah 7 Ret 8 10 29 Kamil Heller 6 WD 8 30 Niklas Heino 6 8 31 Miguel Recalt 7 6 32 Markus Soininen 8 4 33 Tuomo Hannonen 9 2 34 Juan Cruz Varela 9 2 35 Mikael Korhonen Ret 10 1 Pos. Co-driver MON SWE KEN CRO ESP POR JPN GRE EST FIN PAR CHL ITA Points Sources:

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)

External links

• Official website (in English, French, and Spanish)
• FIA WRC3 Championship 2026 at eWRC-results.com