Volkswagen Motorsport

Full name	Volkswagen Motorsport
Base	Hannover, Germany
Team principal(s)	Jost Capito
Technical director	Willy Rampf
Drivers	Jari-Matti Latvala Sébastien Ogier Andreas Mikkelsen
Co-drivers	Miikka Anttila Julien Ingrassia Mikko Markkula
Chassis	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
Tyres	M Michelin
World Rally Championship career
Debut	2011
Constructors' Championships	3 (2013, 2014, 2015)
Drivers' Championships	3 (2013, 2014, 2015)
Rally wins	32

The Volkswagen Motorsport is a German works rally team of the car manufacturer Volkswagen, currently competing in the World Rally Championship. The team started competing in WRC in 1978 and used different specs of Volkswagen Golfs before leaving the sport in 1990. The team made its comeback in 2011 Rally Finland with a pair of Škoda Fabia S2000s, and have been competing with the Volkswagen Polo R WRC since the start of the 2013 World Rally Championship season.

History[edit]

2011–2012[edit]

In 2011 Volkswagen competed with seven different drivers in four rallies (Rally Finland, Rallye Deutschland, Rally Catalunya and Wales Rally GB). German Christian Riedemann was the only driver competing in two rallies.

In November 2011, the team revealed they have made a multi-year contract with the French rally star Sébastien Ogier and his co-driver Julien Ingrassia.

For 2012 season, Volkswagen Motorsport continued developing their Polo R World Rally Car and they also completed a full WRC-campaign (except New Zealand) with a pair of Škoda Fabias. Sébastien Ogier drove it in every round of the campaign, while the second car was shared between Andreas Mikkelsen and Kevin Abbring. The team had a third car in their home rally Germany driven by Sepp Wiegand.

The season included some highlights, including Sébastien Ogier's unexpected special stage win in Sardinia. Ogier's fifth place in Sardinia also remains the best ever overall finish for a S2000 car in World Rally Championship.^[1]

In October, Volkswagen Motorsport announced that they have signed Jari-Matti Latvala with his co-driver Miikka Anttila to join Ogier and Ingrassia to drive Volkswagen Polo R WRC for 2013 season.^[2]

2013[edit]

Andreas Mikkelsen driving a Volkswagen Polo R WRC at the 2013 Rally de Portugal.

Volkswagen Motorsport entered as a fully-fledged manufacturer team in 2013. Sébastien Ogier and Jari-Matti Latvala started the season, whilst Andreas Mikkelsen joined the championship at the fourth round in Portugal. Mikkelsen and his new co-driver Mikko Markkula were registered under a second manufacturer team, known as “Volkswagen Motorsport II” so as to give them as much time as possible testing the Polo R WRC.^[3]

The 2013 season started with Rallye Monte-Carlo. Volkswagen entered the rally with two cars, Latvala/Anttila and Ogier/Ingrassia. Ogier started their campaign with a dream start by winning the very first stage of the season, and the first of Volkswagen Polo R WRC.^[4] Ogier won one more stage and finished the rally in second place, nearly two minutes behind the winner Sébastien Loeb. Jari-Matti Latvala's rally ended in last evening of the rally when he hit the wall in slippery conditions.

The team took its first WRC victory in their second rally with the World Rally Car, when Sébastien Ogier dominated the Rally Sweden being fastest in half of the stages of the rally.^[5] Jari-Matti Latvala finished fourth, and also scored his first stage win with the team.

Ogier continued his dominance at the next event in Rally Mexico, giving the team its second victory in a row. Ogier won 16 out of 23 stages and lead the rally from the second stage till the finish. Latvala hit a rock in SS2 and after restarting in Day 2 he eventually finished outside of the points. That meant Volkswagen was still 6 points behind Citroën in Manufacturers' standings before moving on to Rally de Portugal^[6]

2014[edit]

2015[edit]

Complete WRC results[edit]

WRC victories[edit]

No.	Season	Rally	Driver	Co-driver	Car
1	1987	19ème Rallye Côte d'Ivoire	Kenneth Eriksson	Peter Diekmann	Volkswagen Golf GTI 16V
2	2013	61st Rally Sweden	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
3		27º Rally México	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
4		47º Rally de Portugal	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
5		59th Acropolis Rally	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
6		10º Rally Italia Sardegna	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
7		63rd Rally Finland	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
8		22nd Rally Australia	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
9		Rallye de France – Alsace 2013	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
10		49º Rally Catalunya	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
11		69th Wales Rally GB	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
12	2014	82ème Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
13		62nd Rally Sweden	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
14		28º Rally México	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
15		48º Rally de Portugal	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
16		34° Rally Argentina	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
17		11º Rally Italia Sardegna	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
18		71st Rally Poland	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
19		64th Rally Finland	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
20		23rd Rally Australia	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
21		Rallye de France – Alsace 2014	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
22		50º Rally Catalunya	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
23		70th Wales Rally GB	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
24	2015	83ème Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
25		63rd Rally Sweden	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
26		29° Rally Guanajuato México	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
27		49° Vodafone Rally de Portugal	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
28		12° Rally d'italia Sardegna	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
29		72nd LOTOS Rally Poland	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
30		65th Rally Finland	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
31		33. ADAC Rallye Deutschland	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
32		24th Coates Hire Rally Australia	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Polo R WRC

1980s with Golf[edit]

Year	Entrant	Car	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	WDC	Points	WMC	Points
1978	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Golf GTI	Jochi Kleint	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	GRE	FIN	CAN	ITA	CIV	FRA	GBR Ret			N/A		12th	17
1982	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Golf GTI	Per Eklund	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	FRA	GRE	NZL	BRA	FIN	ITA Ret	CIV	GBR		5th*	57*	14th	14
1983	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Golf GTI	Kalle Grundel	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	FRA	GRE	NZL	ARG	FIN	ITA	CIV	GBR 8		16th*	11*	8th	11
1984	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Golf GTI	Kalle Grundel	MON 9	SWE Ret	POR 7	KEN	FRA 13	GRE Ret	NZL	ARG	FIN Ret	ITA 6	CIV	GBR Ret		18th	12	8th	34
1985	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Golf GTI	Jochi Kleint	MON	SWE	POR Ret	KEN	FRA Ret	GRE Ret	NZL	ARG	FIN 11	ITA Ret	CIV	GBR		-	0	7th	29
			Franz Wittmann	MON	SWE	POR Ret	KEN	FRA Ret	GRE 9	NZL	ARG	FIN 12	ITA 9	CIV	GBR		50th	4
1986	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Golf GTI 16V	Kenneth Eriksson	MON 9	SWE 7	POR Ret	KEN Ret	FRA 8	GRE 7	NZL 7	ARG 5	FIN 12	CIV	ITA 5	GBR 11	USA	10th	25	3rd	65
			Franz Wittmann	MON 10	SWE	POR Ret	KEN 12	FRA Ret	GRE 9	NZL	ARG 7	FIN	CIV	ITA	GBR	USA	35th	7
1987	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Golf GTI 16V	Kenneth Eriksson	MON 5	SWE 8	POR 3	KEN Ret	FRA Ret	GRE Ret	USA	NZL 2	ARG 4	FIN	CIV 1	ITA	GBR	4th	70	4th	64
			Erwin Weber	MON 9	SWE	POR Ret	KEN 4	FRA	GRE 6	USA	NZL	ARG 3	FIN	CIV 3	ITA	GBR	6th	44
1988	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Golf GTI 16V	Lars-Erik Torph	MON	SWE	POR	KEN Ret	FRA	GRE	USA	NZL	ARG	FIN	CIV	ITA	GBR	20th*	12*	11th	14
			Erwin Weber	MON	SWE	POR 7	KEN Ret	FRA	GRE	USA	NZL	ARG	FIN	CIV	ITA	GBR	50th	4
1989	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Golf GTI 16V	Stig Blomqvist	SWE	MON	POR	KEN 3	FRA	GRE	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS	ITA	CIV	GBR	15th*	20*	9th	14
			Erwin Weber	SWE	MON	POR	KEN 8	FRA	GRE	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS	ITA	CIV	GBR	58th	3
1990	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Golf Rallye G60	Erwin Weber	MON	POR	KEN	FRA	GRE Ret	NZL 3	ARG	FIN	AUS EX	ITA	CIV	GBR		18th	12	10th	10

*Including points scored with different manufacturers.

JWRC[edit]

Year	Entrant	Car	No	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	JWRC	Points
2002	Volkswagen Racing	Volkswagen Polo S1600	69	Kosti Katajamäki	MON Ret	ESP Ret	GRE Ret	GER 6	ITA Ret	GBR Ret		17th	1
2003	Volkswagen Racing	Volkswagen Polo S1600	54	Kosti Katajamäki	MON EX	TUR 1	GRE Ret	FIN Ret	ITA Ret	ESP Ret	GBR Ret	10th	10
			62	Oscar Svedlund	MON Ret	TUR Ret	GRE 5	FIN 8	ITA	ESP Ret	GBR Ret	16th	5
			78	Vladan Vasiljevic	MON DSQ	TUR Ret	GRE Ret	FIN Ret	ITA	ESP	GBR	-	0

Years with Škoda Fabia[edit]

Year	Entrant	Car	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	WDC	Points
2011	Volkswagen Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	Joonas Lindroos	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA	ARG	GRE	FIN Ret						-	0
			Andreas Mikkelsen	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA	ARG	GRE	FIN Ret						-	0
			Hans Weijs, Jr.									GER 13	AUS	FRA			-	0
			Christian Riedemann									GER 15	AUS	FRA	ESP 20		-	0
			Yeray Lemes												ESP 14		-	0
			Kevin Abbring													GBR 12	-	0
			Sepp Wiegand													GBR Ret	-	0
2012	Volkswagen Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	Sébastien Ogier	MON Ret	SWE 11	MEX 8	POR 7	ARG 7	GRE 7	NZL	FIN 10	GER 6	GBR 12	FRA 11	ITA 5	ESP Ret	10th	41
			Kevin Abbring	MON 12		MEX Ret	POR DNS						GBR 25				-	0
			Andreas Mikkelsen		SWE 13			ARG Ret	GRE Ret	NZL	FIN 27	GER 7		FRA 12	ITA 7	ESP 21	14th	13
			Sepp Wiegand									GER Ret					-	0

World Rally Car era[edit]

Year	Entrant	Car	No.	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	WDC	Points	WMC	Points
2013	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	7	Jari-Matti Latvala	MON Ret	SWE 4	MEX 16	POR 3	ARG 3	GRE 1	ITA 3	FIN 17	GER 7	AUS 4	FRA 3	ESP 2	GBR 2	3rd	162	1st	425
			8	Sébastien Ogier	MON 2	SWE 1	MEX 1	POR 1	ARG 2	GRE 10	ITA 1	FIN 1	GER 17	AUS 1	FRA 1	ESP 1	GBR 1	1st	290
	Volkswagen Motorsport II		9	Andreas Mikkelsen				POR 6	ARG 8	GRE 4	ITA Ret	FIN 10	GER WD	AUS 6	FRA 7	ESP Ret	GBR 5	10th	50	7th	50
2014	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	1	Sébastien Ogier	MON 1	SWE 6	MEX 1	POR 1	ARG 2	ITA 1	POL 1	FIN 2	GER Ret	AUS 1	FRA 13	ESP 1	GBR 1	1st	267	1st	447
			2	Jari-Matti Latvala	MON 5	SWE 1	MEX 2	POR 14	ARG 1	ITA 3	POL 5	FIN 1	GER Ret	AUS 2	FRA 1	ESP 2	GBR 8	2nd	218
	Volkswagen Motorsport II		9	Andreas Mikkelsen	MON 7	SWE 2	MEX 19	POR 4	ARG 4	ITA 4	POL 2	FIN 4	GER 3	AUS 3	FRA 2	ESP 7	GBR Ret	3rd	150	5th	133
2015*	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	1	Sébastien Ogier	MON 1	SWE 1	MEX 1	ARG 17	POR 2	ITA 1	POL 1	FIN 2	GER 1	AUS 1	FRA 15	ESP	GBR	1st	238	1st	369
			2	Jari-Matti Latvala	MON 2	SWE Ret	MEX 15	ARG Ret	POR 1	ITA 6	POL 5	FIN 1	GER 2	AUS 2	FRA 1	ESP	GBR	2nd	160
	Volkswagen Motorsport II		9	Andreas Mikkelsen	MON 3	SWE 3	MEX 3	ARG Ret	POR 3	ITA 36	POL 2	FIN Ret	GER 3	AUS 4	FRA 3	ESP	GBR	3rd	126	5th	91

* Season in progress.

See also[edit]

• Citroën World Rally Team
• M-Sport World Rally Team

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Volkswagen Motorsport official website

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