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- 1997_World_Rally_Championship abstract "The 1997 World Rally Championship was the 25th season of the FIA World Rally Championship. The season saw many changes in the championship. Most notably, Group A was partially replaced by the World Rally Car with manufacturers given the option which regulations to construct to. One inherent benefit to manufacturers by adopting WRC regulations was removing the need to mass-produce road-going versions of the cars that they competed with, under the previous rules for homologation. This meant that vehicles such as the Escort RS Cosworth and Subaru Impreza Turbo no longer had to be mass-produced for general sale in order to compete at World Championship level, and thus acting as a means of attracting increased competition and involvement by manufacturers. In the few years that follow, the Championship saw the added presence of WRC cars from companies such as Hyundai, Seat, Citroen, and Peugeot, who would all compete under WRC regulations without having to manufacture equivalent specialised road cars for public sale. Both Ford and Subaru switched to WRC in 1997, except Mitsubishi who stayed with Group A to maintain the links to their Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution road cars. Subaru's transition was much more gradual for similar reasons with the early Subaru Impreza WRCs still largely Group A in nature.Events also became shorter and more compact, event rotation system used in previous three seasons was dropped and registered manufacturers were required to contest the expanded 14 event calendar for the first time. In due course the World Rally Car rules would bring new manufactures into the sport, but at the start of 1997 it was still Subaru versus Mitsubishi versus Ford as before, although, by mid season Toyota Team Europe were back with a Corolla World Rally Car. The Drivers' championship was very tightly contested and in the end Tommi Mäkinen won his second drivers' world championship in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV by a single point ahead of Subaru Impreza WRC driver Colin McRae after the final round in Great Britain. Carlos Sainz was third in the leading Ford Escort WRC. The Manufacturers' title was won by Subaru.One major flaw in the new class system was exposed by the increasing speed of the naturally aspirated front-wheel-drive FIA 2-Litre World Rally Cup cars. The tarmac specification cars built by Peugeot and Renault that competed in the all-tarmac French and Spanish championships became major threats on WRC tarmac events Rallye Catalunya and the Tour de Corse with Gilles Panizzi defeating all but two of the WRC four-wheel-drive turbos in his Peugeot 306 Maxi, taking third place in both events.".
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship title "World Rally Championship".
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageExternalLink www.rallybase.nl.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageExternalLink index.php?type=season&champid=wrc1997.
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- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageRevisionID "706528034".
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Acropolis_Rally.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Monte_Carlo_Rally.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Rally_Argentina.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Rally_Australia.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Rally_Catalunya.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Rally_Finland.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Rally_GB.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Rally_Indonesia.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Rally_New_Zealand.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Rally_Sanremo.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Rally_de_Portugal.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Safari_Rally.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Swedish_Rally.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Tour_de_Corse.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Acropolis_Rally.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Adruzilo_Lopes.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Alexander_Zheludov.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Andrea_Aghini.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Andrea_Navarra.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Angelo_Medeghini.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Ari_Vatanen.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Armin_Schwarz.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Bruno_Thiry.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Carlos_Sainz.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Category:1997_in_rallying.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Category:World_Rally_Championship_seasons.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Citroën_World_Rally_Team.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Claude_Balesi.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Colin_McRae.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Craig_Marshall.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Didier_Auriol.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Ed_Ordynski.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink FIA_2-Litre_World_Rally_Cup.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Fernando_Peres.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Ford_Escort_(Europe).
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Ford_Escort_RS_Cosworth.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Ford_Motor_Company.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Franco_Cunico.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink François_Delecour.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Freddy_Loix.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Frédéric_Dor.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Fujimoto_Yoshio.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Fxc3xa9dxc3xa9ration_Internationale_de_lAutomobile.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Geoff_Argyle.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Gilles_Panizzi.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Greg_Graham.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Group_A.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Grégoire_De_Mévius.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Gustavo_Trelles.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Henrik_Lundgaard.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Hideaki_Miyoshi.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Homologation_(motorsport).
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Hyundai_Motor_Company.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Ian_Duncan.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Isolde_Holderied.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Jaime_Azcona.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Jarmo_Kytölehto.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Jean-Pierre_Richelmi.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Jolly_Club.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Jonathan_Toroitich.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Jouko_Puhakka.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Juha_Kangas.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Juha_Kankkunen.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Karamjit_Singh.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Kenjiro_Shinozuka.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Kenneth_Bäcklund.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Kenneth_Eriksson.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Kris_Rosenberger.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Leonídas_Kyrkos.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Luis_Climent.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Manfred_Stohl.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Marcus_Grönholm.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Marty_Roestenburg.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Masao_Kamioka.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Massimo_Ercolani.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Mats_Jonsson_(rally_driver).
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Mats_Thorszelius.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Mitsubishi.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Mitsubishi_Lancer_Evolution.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Monte_Carlo_Rally.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Neal_Bates.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Pasi_Hagström.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Peugeot.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Peugeot_306.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Peugeot_Sport.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Philippe_Bugalski.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Pierlorenzo_Zanchi.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Piero_Liatti.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Possum_Bourne.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Ralliart.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Rally_Argentina.
- 1997_World_Rally_Championship wikiPageWikiLink Rally_Australia.