2007 Monte Carlo Rally

Infobox Rally
name = 2007 Monte Carlo Rally
native_name = 75ème Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo
round = 1
championship = 2007 World Rally Championship
next_round = 2007 Swedish Rally
country =MCO


caption = Renault Clio S1600 competing in Monte-Carlo Rally in 2004.
rallybase = Monte Carlo
startdate = January 18 2007
enddate = January 21 2007
stages = 15
stagekm = 328.54
overallkm = 1185.02
surface = Tarmac / Ice
driver1 = flagicon|FRA Sébastien Loeb
team1 = flagicon|FRA Citroën Total World Rally Team
teamsstart = 47
teamsfinish = 39
commons = Category:2007 Rallye Automobile Monte CarloThe 75ème Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo ("75th Monte-Carlo Rally") , the first round of the 2007 World Rally Championship season took place between January 19th and 21th, 2007. __TOC__

Pre-event

The rally returned to the Vercors and Ardèche regions of France for the first time since 1997. Due to the popularity of the rally concerns arose about spectator safety, after the shakedown stage was cancelled due to spectator crowding. The rally has some returns and new faces, namely the return of Citroën with the highly developed C4 WRC with drivers Sébastien Loeb and Dani Sordo. BP Ford returned to defend their manufacturers' title in 2006 with the same team of Marcus Grönholm and Mikko Hirvonen. The Subaru World Rally Team also returned with the same 2006 team of Petter Solberg and Chris Atkinson. In addition to the BP Ford Team, Stobart VK M-Sport Ford return with previous drivers Matthew Wilson and Jari-Matti Latvala as well as Henning Solberg that joins from OMV Peugeot. Another Ford team has been entered under the team name of Munchi's Ford World Rally Team with drivers Luis Perez Companc and fellow Argentine Juan Pablo Raies, they will contest 10 rallies in 2007.

Results

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Manufacturers' championship

External links

* [http://www.wrc.com/page/StageTimes/0,,10111~200712,00.html Results] on official site - [http://www.wrc.com/ WRC.com]
* [http://rallybase.nl/index.php?type=result&rallyid=437 Results] on [http://www.rallybase.nl/ RallyBase.nl]
* [http://www.ewrc-results.com/final.php?event=17 Results] on [http://www.ewrc-results.com eWRC-results.com]