Junior World Rally Championship

The FIA World Rally Junior World Championships (from 2011 FIA WRC Academy formerly FIA Junior World Rally Championship in short JWRC ) has been held since 2002. It emerged from the 2001 World Cup once discharged for Super 1600 cars. First champion in a Citroën Saxo VTS Super 1600 was the Frenchman Sébastien Loeb.

All rounds will be held as part of the World Rally Championship. Thus, the JWRC participants are entitled to points for this championship. Limited, however, is the age of the participants. This may be the date January 1 up to 29 years old. In addition to the Drivers' Championship also has a Rookie classification has been awarded since 2007.

From the World Rally Championship 2011, this class is called the WRC Academy. It starts from 2011 uniformly with Ford Fiesta R2 cars Class A6 in order to keep the cost of an entire season attendance at about 135,000 euros. Points are awarded according to the FIA standard 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 for the ten fastest drivers a rally. In addition, get the five fastest drivers who reach the goal yet each one bonus point for each one reached fastest special stage time in this class.

The prize for the champion of the 2011 season are a capital of 500,000 euros to make participation in the World Rally Championship in 2012 to finance.

Master

The only master who could win even a World Rally Championship titles, Sébastien Loeb. With two titles Per- Gunnar Andersson is the most successful driver of JWRC.

* Still held as FIA World Cup for drivers of Super 1600 cars

Rookie rankings

Since 2007, the FIA also writes from a rookie standings for drivers who first attend the JWRC.