Martin Prokop

Martin Prokop

Prokop at the 2008 Tour de Corse.
Personal information
Nationality	Czech
Born	October 4, 1982 (1982-10-04) (age 29)
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2005–present
Teams	Czech Ford National Team
Rallies	67
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	1
Total points	10
First rally	2005 Monte Carlo Rally

Martin Prokop (born 4 October 1982 in Jihlava) is a Czech rally driver. He won the Junior World Rally Championship in the 2009 season.

Career

Prokop during the shakedown of the 2009 Cyprus Rally.

Prokop during the 2010 Rally Finland.

After competing in the Czech Rally Championship for four years, Prokop debuted in the World Rally Championship at the 2005 Monte Carlo Rally, finishing ninth in the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) category. He ended his season with the same position in the overall junior standings. In the 2006 season, Prokop took his first JWRC win at the Rally Catalunya and finished tenth in the championship.^[1]

In 2007, Prokop continued in the junior class and won the Rallye Deutschland and the Tour de Corse. In the overall standings, he placed third behind the two Swifts of Per-Gunnar Andersson and Urmo Aava. In the 2008 season, Prokop contested both the JWRC and the Production World Rally Championship (PWRC), finishing third and fifth, respectively.

In 2009, Prokop continued competing in both WRC support championships. In August 2009, he secured the junior world title with a win at the Rally Finland, after earlier driving his Citroën C2 S1600 to victory in Cyprus and Italy.^[2] He finished 2nd in PWRC 2009 standings after Armindo Araujo.

In 2010, Prokop switched to SWRC with Ford Fiesta S2000. He is first driver who won special stage of WRC rally with s2000 car, it was SS16 at 2010 Rally Sweden. Prokop had stronge results during the season 3rd at Rally Sweden, 2nd at Rally Mexico, Rallye Deutschland and Rally Japan. Prokop had chances to become SWRC champion at Rallye de France, but because of his problems with power steering he was losing time every stage and finished 6th.

Racing record

WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2005	Martin Prokop	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON 21	SWE	MEX	NZL	ITA 24	CYP	TUR	GRE 27	ARG	FIN 36	GER Ret	GBR Ret	JPN	FRA 22	ESP 22	AUS	-	0
2006	Martin Prokop	Citroën C2 S1600	MON 20	SWE 45	MEX	ESP 17	FRA 20	ARG	ITA 37	GRE	GER 22	FIN 35	JPN	CYP	TUR 21	AUS	NZL	GBR 25	-	0
2007	Martin Prokop	Citroën C2 S1600	MON 20		NOR	MEX	POR Ret	ARG	ITA 16		FIN Ret	GER 11	NZL	ESP 17	FRA 17	JPN	IRE		-	0
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX		SWE Ret						GRE 20								GBR 20
2008	Martin Prokop	Citroën C2 S1600			MEX 22			ITA 30			FIN 20	GER Ret		ESP 16	FRA 19	JPN			-	0
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	MON	SWE 12		ARG 15	JOR		GRE 34	TUR DSQ			NZL 10				GBR Ret
2009	Martin Prokop	Citroën C2 S1600	IRE 17		CYP 14			ITA 12		POL 12	FIN 14		ESP Ret						-	0
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX		NOR 15		POR 10	ARG DSQ		GRE 12			AUS 10		GBR 10
2010	Czech Ford National Team	Ford Fiesta S2000	SWE 14	MEX 9	JOR	TUR	NZL 11	POR	BUL	FIN 13	DEU 11		FRA 21	ESP	GBR				18th	3
	Barwa Rally Team											JPN 10
2011	Czech Ford National Team	Ford Fiesta S2000	SWE 12	MEX 7	POR	JOR	ITA 10	ARG	GRE 15	FIN 12	DEU 30	AUS	FRA 14	ESP 13					19th	7
		Ford Fiesta RS WRC													GBR 22

JWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	JWRC	Points
2005	Martin Prokop	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON 9	MEX	ITA 7	GRE 7	FIN 6	GER Ret	FRA 7	ESP 5		9th	13
2006	Martin Prokop	Citroën C2 S1600	SWE 11	ESP 1	FRA	ARG	ITA 11	GER 5	FIN 8	TUR 6	GBR	10th	18
2007	Martin Prokop	Citroën C2 S1600	NOR	POR Ret	ITA 3	FIN Ret	GER 1	ESP 2	FRA 1			3rd	34
2008	Martin Prokop	Citroën C2 S1600	MEX 7	JOR	ITA 10	FIN 1	DEU Ret	ESP 1	FRA 1			3rd	32
2009	Martin Prokop	Citroën C2 S1600	IRE 2	CYP 1	POR	ARG	ITA 1	POL 2	FIN 1	ESP Ret		1st	42

PWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	PWRC	Points
2007	Martin Prokop	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	SWE Ret	MEX	ARG	GRE	NZL	JPN	IRE	GBR	-	0
2008	Martin Prokop	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	SWE 4	ARG 7	GRE 14	TUR DSQ	FIN	NZL 1	JAP	GBR Ret	5th	17
2009	Martin Prokop	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	NOR 3	CYP	POR 2	ARG DSQ	ITA	GRE 4	AUS 1	GBR 1	2nd	39

SWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	SWRC	Points
2010	Czech Ford National Team	Ford Fiesta S2000	SWE 3	MEX 2	JOR	NZL 3	POR	FIN 4	DEU 2		FRA 6	GBR	3rd	104
	Barwa Rally Team									JPN 2
2011	Czech Ford National Team	Ford Fiesta S2000	MEX 1	JOR	ITA 3	GRE 5	FIN 2	DEU 6	FRA 3	ESP 3			3rd	106

IRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	WDC	Points
2009	BF Goodrich Drivers Team	Peugeot 207 S2000	MON	BRA	KEN	POR	BEL	RUS	POR	CZE 5	ESP	ITA	SCO		27th	4
2010	Czech Ford Rally Team	Ford Fiesta S2000	MON	BRA	ARG	CAN	ITA	BEL	AZO	MAD	CZE	ITA	SCO	CYP 3	13th	6

References

1. ^ "Driver profile - Martin Prokop". eWRC-results.com. http://www.ewrc-results.com/profile.php?profile=17. Retrieved 5 August 2009. 
2. ^ "Prokop wins J-WRC title with Finnish victory". Rally-Live.com. 2 August 2009. http://www.rally-live.com/en/wrc/headlines/news/detail/090802194632.shtml. Retrieved 5 August 2009. 

External links

• Official website

Sporting positions
Preceded by Sébastien Ogier	Junior World Rally Champion 2009	Succeeded by Aaron Burkart

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Name	Prokop, Martin
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Date of birth	4 October 1982
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