World Rally Championship 1973 results
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The 1973 World Rally Championship season was the inaugural season for the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile is a non-profit association established as the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus on 20 June 1904 to represent the interests of motoring organisations and motor car users...

 (FIA) World Rally Championship
World Rally Championship
The World Rally Championship is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. The series currently consists of 13...

 (WRC) format. It consisted of 13 events, each held in a different country of the world. Many of the events would be staples of the series through to today, including Monte Carlo, Sweden, Tour de Corse, and the RAC Rally, while others would soon be replaced in the schedule. As with following seasons, gravel events formed the majority of the schedule. Two pure tarmac and one snow and ice rally were also included, as well as three events held on a mixture of soft and hard surface roads.

The first award of the Championship for Manufacturers was firmly won by Alpine-Renault, which had already gained fame competing for the earlier International Championship for Manufacturers
International Championship for Manufacturers
The FIA International Championship for Manufacturers was a rally series culminating in a champion manufacturer. The championship was run from 1970 to 1972 and it was replaced by the FIA World Rally Championship in 1973...

. Fiat
Fiat
FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...

 successfully placed second ahead of challenger Ford, but could not seriously challenge the winning Alpine. However, this would also prove to be the last award for the Alpine, as it gave way in subsequent years to Italian firms Lancia
Lancia
Lancia Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia and which became part of the Fiat Group in 1969. The company has a long history of producing distinctive cars and also has a strong rally heritage. Some modern Lancias are seen as presenting a more...

 and Fiat. A French manufacturer would not regain the Championship again until Peugeot
Peugeot
Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe.The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion...

 successfully captured the 1985 World Rally Championship
1985 World Rally Championship season
The 1985 World Rally Championship season was the 13th season of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile World Rally Championship . The season consisted of 12 rallies following the same schedule as the previous season. Peugeot Sport's Timo Salonen beat Audi Sport's Stig Blomqvist and Walter...

 for Manufacturers.

From 1973 to 1978, the WRC only awarded a season championship for the winningest manufacturer. Scoring was given for the highest placing entry for each manufacturer. Thus if a particular manufacturer was to place 2nd, 4th, and 10th, they would receive points for 2nd place only. However, the manufacturer would still gain an advantage in scoring from its other entries, as the points for the 4th and 10th place entries would be denied to other manufacturers.

Events

align=center style="background:#BFD7FF"| 1973 World Rally Championship event map
Black = Tarmac Brown = Gravel Blue = Snow/Ice Red = Mixed Surface

align=center style="background:#BFD7FF"| 1973 World Rally Championship schedule and results
Round Rally name Stages Podium finishers
Rank Driver Car Time
1  
42ème Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo
(19–26 January)
18 stages
420 km
Tarmac
1   Jean-Claude Andruet
Jean-Claude Andruet
Jean-Claude Andruet is a retired French professional rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship.Andruet took three WRC event wins during his career; 1973 Monte Carlo Rally, 1974 Tour de Corse and 1977 San Remo Rally. The 1973 Monte Carlo was the first ever rally in the FIA World...

 
Alpine Renault A110 1800 5 h : 42 m : 4 s
2   Ove Andersson
Ove Andersson
Ove Andersson was a Swedish rally driver and the first head of Toyota's F1 program. His nickname was "Påven" .-Early life:...

 
Alpine Renault A110 1800 5 h : 42 m : 30 s
3   Jean-Pierre Nicolas
Jean-Pierre Nicolas
Jean-Pierre Nicolas is a retired French professional rally driver who competed mainly in the 1970s.Nicolas took five WRC event wins in the World Rally Championship...

 
Alpine Renault A110 1800 5 h : 43 m : 39 s
2  
24th International Swedish Rally
(15–18 February)
36 stages
760 km
Snow/Ice
1   Stig Blomqvist
Stig Blomqvist
"Stig" Lennart Blomqvist is a Swedish rally driver. He made his international breakthrough in 1971. Driving an Audi Quattro for the Audi factory team, Blomqvist won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1984 and finished runner-up in 1985...

 
Saab 96 V4 9 h : 18 m : 31 s
2   Per Eklund
Per Eklund
Per Eklund, born on June 26, 1946 in Skönnerud , Eda Municipality of Värmland in Sweden, is a Rally and Rallycross driver who lives in Arvika. His nickname is "Pekka". In rallying he never made it to the very top but he has been very successful in his later rallycross career.- Saab works...

 
Saab 96 V4 9 h : 20 m : 53 s
3   Jean-Luc Thérier
Jean-Luc Thérier
Jean-Luc Thérier is a French former rally driver. He was the highest scoring driver in the inaugural World Rally Championship in 1973 and the only one to win three events...

 
Alpine Renault A110 1800 9 h : 34 m : 12 s
3  
7º TAP Rallye de Portugal
(13–18 March)
32 stages
387 km
Tarmac/Gravel
1   Jean-Luc Thérier
Jean-Luc Thérier
Jean-Luc Thérier is a French former rally driver. He was the highest scoring driver in the inaugural World Rally Championship in 1973 and the only one to win three events...

 
Alpine Renault A110 1800 5 h : 42 m : 16 s
2   Jean-Pierre Nicolas
Jean-Pierre Nicolas
Jean-Pierre Nicolas is a retired French professional rally driver who competed mainly in the 1970s.Nicolas took five WRC event wins in the World Rally Championship...

 
Alpine Renault A110 1800 5 h : 48 m : 57 s
3   Francisco Romãozinho
Francisco Romãozinho
Francisco Romãozinho is a retired Portuguese professional rally driver who competed in the 1970s.Romãozinho, driving a Citroën DS21 and partnered by José Bernardo, achieved his best result in the World Rally Championship at the 1973 Rallye de Portugal, his home event, by finishing third.-References:...

 
Citroën DS21 6 h : 7 m : 48 s
4  
21st East African Safari Rally
(19–23 April)
56 controls
5300 km
Gravel
1   Shekhar Mehta
Shekhar Mehta
Chandrashekhar "Shekhar" Mehta was a Ugandan-born Kenyan rally driver. He won the Safari Rally a record five times , including four consecutively, and in 1981 finished fifth in the World Rally Championship...

 
Datsun 240Z +6 m : 46 s pen
2   Harry Källström
Harry Källström
Harry "Sputnik" Källström was a Swedish professional rally driver who debuted in 1957 and competed in the World Rally Championship in the 1970s. Prior to the forming of the WRC, Källström won the RAC Rally in a Lancia Fulvia 1.6 Coupé HF in 1969 and 1970...

 
Datsun 1800 SSS + 6 m : 46 s pen
3   Ove Andersson
Ove Andersson
Ove Andersson was a Swedish rally driver and the first head of Toyota's F1 program. His nickname was "Påven" .-Early life:...

 
Peugeot 504
Peugeot 504
The Peugeot 504 is a large family car manufactured by French automaker Peugeot between 1968 and 1983, with licensed production continuing until 2006.-1968 — introduction:...

+ 8 m : 47 s pen
5  
16ème Rallye du Maroc
(8–13 May)
27 stages
1210 km
Tarmac/Gravel
1   Bernard Darniche
Bernard Darniche
Bernard Darniche is a French former rally driver. He won the European Rally Championship in 1976 and 1977 and the French Rally Championship in 1976 and 1978, each time behind the wheel of a Lancia Stratos...

 
Alpine Renault A110 15 h : 01 m : 22 s
2   Bob Neyret
Bob Neyret
Robert "Bob" Neyret is a retired French professional rally driver who competed in the 1960s and the 1970s. He won the Rallye du Maroc in 1969 and 1970. In 1972, when the event was part of the International Championship for Manufacturers, he finished second in a Citroën DS 21...

 
Citroën DS23 15 h : 20 m : 4 s
3   Richard Bochnicek  Citroën DS23 15 h : 34 m : 37 s
6  
21st Acropolis Rally
(23–28 May)
549 km
Gravel
1   Jean-Luc Thérier
Jean-Luc Thérier
Jean-Luc Thérier is a French former rally driver. He was the highest scoring driver in the inaugural World Rally Championship in 1973 and the only one to win three events...

 
Alpine Renault A110 7 h : 37 m : 58 s
2   Rauno Aaltonen
Rauno Aaltonen
Rauno August Aaltonen , also known as "The Rally Professor", is a Finnish former professional rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship throughout the 1970s. Before WRC was established Aaltonen competed in the European Rally Championship. He won the championship in 1965, with Tony...

 
Fiat Abarth 124 7 h : 44 m : 59 s
3   Jean-Pierre Nicolas
Jean-Pierre Nicolas
Jean-Pierre Nicolas is a retired French professional rally driver who competed mainly in the 1970s.Nicolas took five WRC event wins in the World Rally Championship...

 
Alpine Renault A110 7 h : 45 m : 56 s
7  
33 Rajd Polski
(12–15 July)
55 stages
734 km
Tarmac/Gravel
1   Achim Warmbold
Achim Warmbold
Achim Warmbold is a German former rally driver. He won the West German Rally Championship in 1971 and 1980, and scored two outright victories during the inaugural World Rally Championship season in 1973 at the Rally of Poland and Austrian Alpine Rally events.Aside from his first WRC race, his...

 
Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye 8 h : 28 m : 14 s
2   Egon Culmbacher  Wartburg 353
Wartburg (marque)
Wartburg was a car marque manufactured in East Germany.The name "Wartburg" derives from Wartburg Castle on one of the hills overlooking the town of Eisenach where the cars were manufactured....

11 h : 15 m : 16 s
3   Maciej Stawowiak  Polski Fiat 125p
Polski Fiat 125p
The Polski Fiat 125p was a motor vehicle manufactured between 1967 and 1991 in People's Republic of Poland and Republic of Poland by the state-owned manufacturer Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych under a license agreement with Fiat. It was a simplified variation of the Fiat 125, with engines and...

12 h : 8 m : 31 s
8  
23rd 1000 Lakes Rally
(3–5 August)
43 stages
517 km
Gravel
1   Timo Mäkinen
Timo Mäkinen
Timo Mäkinen was one of the original "Flying Finns" of motor rallying. He is most famous for his hat-tricks of wins in the RAC Rally and the 1000 Lakes Rally-Career:...

 
Ford Escort RS1600 4 h : 53 m : 50 s
2   Markku Alén
Markku Alén
Markku Allan Alén is a Finnish former rally and race car driver. He drove for Fiat, Lancia, Subaru and Toyota in the World Rally Championship, and held the record for most stage wins in the series until 2011...

 
Volvo 142 4 h : 55 m : 59 s
3   Leo Kinnunen
Leo Kinnunen
Leo Juhani "Leksa" Kinnunen is a Finnish former car racer, the first Formula One driver from his country. He is also remembered for his success in sportscar racing and rallying....

 
Porsche 911
Porsche 911
The Porsche 911 is a luxury 2-door sports coupe made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. It has a distinctive design, rear-engined and with independent rear suspension, an evolution of the swing axle on the Porsche 356. The engine was also air-cooled until the introduction of the Type 996 in 1998...

4 h : 57 m : 12 s
9  
44. Österreichische Alpenfahrt
(12–14 September)
27 stages
310 km
Gravel
1   Achim Warmbold
Achim Warmbold
Achim Warmbold is a German former rally driver. He won the West German Rally Championship in 1971 and 1980, and scored two outright victories during the inaugural World Rally Championship season in 1973 at the Rally of Poland and Austrian Alpine Rally events.Aside from his first WRC race, his...

 
BMW 2002Tii
BMW 2002tii
The BMW 2002tii was the high performance, fuel injected, limited edition of BMW's 2002 automobile model line. It was a two door sports sedan based on the four door BMW 1500 of 1961.-Background:...

3 h : 58 m : 55.5 s
2   Bernard Darniche
Bernard Darniche
Bernard Darniche is a French former rally driver. He won the European Rally Championship in 1976 and 1977 and the French Rally Championship in 1976 and 1978, each time behind the wheel of a Lancia Stratos...

 
Alpine Renault A110 4 h : 0 m : 10.1 s
3   Per Eklund
Per Eklund
Per Eklund, born on June 26, 1946 in Skönnerud , Eda Municipality of Värmland in Sweden, is a Rally and Rallycross driver who lives in Arvika. His nickname is "Pekka". In rallying he never made it to the very top but he has been very successful in his later rallycross career.- Saab works...

 
Saab 96 V4 4 h : 0 m : 11.2 s
10  
15º Rallye Sanremo
(10–13 October)
37 stages
520 km
Tarmac/Gravel
1   Jean-Luc Thérier
Jean-Luc Thérier
Jean-Luc Thérier is a French former rally driver. He was the highest scoring driver in the inaugural World Rally Championship in 1973 and the only one to win three events...

 
Alpine Renault A110 8 h : 1 m : 32 s
2   Maurizio Verini  Fiat Abarth 124 8 h : 7 m : 34 s
3   Jean-Pierre Nicolas
Jean-Pierre Nicolas
Jean-Pierre Nicolas is a retired French professional rally driver who competed mainly in the 1970s.Nicolas took five WRC event wins in the World Rally Championship...

 
Alpine Renault A110 8 h : 21 m : 37 s
11  
25th Press-on-Regardless Rally
(31 October–4 November)
Gravel 1   Walter Boyce
Walter Boyce
Walter Boyce is a Canadian former rally racer. He is the only Canadian to win a World Rally Championship event, which he managed at the 1973 Press-on-Regardless Rally in the United States. He took his second podium finish at the 1974 Rally of the Rideau Lakes in his home country, finishing third...

 
Toyota Corolla
Toyota Corolla
The Toyota Corolla is a line of subcompact and compact cars manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the best selling nameplate in the world, with over 35 million...

6 h : 58 m : 28.2 s
2   Jim Walker  Volvo 142S 7 h : 22 m : 43.2 s
3   John Smiskol  Datsun 240Z 7 h : 33 m : 36.0 s
12
22nd Daily Mirror RAC Rally
(17–21 November)
Gravel/Tarmac 1   Timo Mäkinen
Timo Mäkinen
Timo Mäkinen was one of the original "Flying Finns" of motor rallying. He is most famous for his hat-tricks of wins in the RAC Rally and the 1000 Lakes Rally-Career:...

 
Ford Escort RS1600 6 h : 47 m : 8 s
2 Roger Clark
Roger Clark
Roger Albert Clark, MBE, was a British rally driver during the 1960s and '70s, and the first competitor from his country to win a World Rally Championship event when he triumphed at the 1976 RAC Rally.-Biography:...

 
Ford Escort RS1600 6 h : 52 m : 23 s
3   Markku Alén
Markku Alén
Markku Allan Alén is a Finnish former rally and race car driver. He drove for Fiat, Lancia, Subaru and Toyota in the World Rally Championship, and held the record for most stage wins in the series until 2011...

 
Ford Escort RS1600 6 h : 55 m : 26 s
13  
17ème Tour de Corse
(1–2 December)
13 stages
372 km
Tarmac
1   Jean-Pierre Nicolas
Jean-Pierre Nicolas
Jean-Pierre Nicolas is a retired French professional rally driver who competed mainly in the 1970s.Nicolas took five WRC event wins in the World Rally Championship...

 
Alpine Renault A110 5 h : 6 m : 31 s
2   Jean-François Piot  Alpine Renault A110 5 h : 14 m : 37 s
3   Jean-Luc Thérier
Jean-Luc Thérier
Jean-Luc Thérier is a French former rally driver. He was the highest scoring driver in the inaugural World Rally Championship in 1973 and the only one to win three events...

 
Alpine Renault A110 5 h : 18 m : 46 s

Championship

align=center style="background:#BFD7FF"| 1973 World Rally Championship point awards for manufacturers
Points awarded by finish 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
20 15 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1

Manufacturers' championship

Pos Manufacturer MON
 
SWE
 
POR
 
KEN
 
MAR
 
GRC
 
POL
 
FIN
 
AUT
 
ITA
 
USA
 
GBR
 
FRA
 
 Pts 
1   Alpine-Renault 1 3 1 1 1 Ret 2 1 (5) 1 147
2   Fiat
Fiat
FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...

7 5 4 (8) 6 2 1 (8) 6 2 (10) 84
3   Ford
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...

4 9 14 7 Ret 1 4 1 4 76
4   Volvo
Volvo
AB Volvo is a Swedish builder of commercial vehicles, including trucks, buses and construction equipment. Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems, aerospace components and financial services...

9 9 2 2 4 44
5   Saab
Saab
Saab AB is a Swedish aerospace and defence company, founded in 1937. From 1947 to 1990 it was the parent company of automobile manufacturer Saab Automobile, and between 1968 and 1995 the company was in a merger with commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania, known as Saab-Scania.-History:"Svenska...

37 1 4 3 Ret 42
6   Datsun
Nissan Motors
, usually shortened to Nissan , is a multinational automaker headquartered in Japan. It was a core member of the Nissan Group, but has become more independent after its restructuring under Carlos Ghosn ....

9 19 11 1 11 Ret 3 14 22 34
7   Citroën
Citroën
Citroën is a major French automobile manufacturer, part of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group.Founded in 1919 by French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën , Citroën was the first mass-production car company outside the USA and pioneered the modern concept of creating a sales and services network that...

3 2 6 Ret 33
8   BMW
BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...

17 7 13 Ret Ret 17 1 51 7 28
9   Porsche
Porsche
Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche SE a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German based holding company with investments in the automotive industry....

46 5 Ret Ret 3 7 22 8 27
10   Toyota 23 Ret 9 Ret 8 1 12 25
11   Opel
Opel
Adam Opel AG, generally shortened to Opel, is a German automobile company founded by Adam Opel in 1862. Opel has been building automobiles since 1899, and became an Aktiengesellschaft in 1929...

12 10 7 DSQ 11 5 13 9 Ret 6 7 25
12   Polski Fiat
Polski Fiat
Polski Fiat was a Polish car brand. Under this brand, cars under licence of the Italian manufacturer FIAT were manufactured or assembled in Poland.-Before World War II:...

35 3 6 18
13   Lancia
Lancia
Lancia Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia and which became part of the Fiat Group in 1969. The company has a long history of producing distinctive cars and also has a strong rally heritage. Some modern Lancias are seen as presenting a more...

8 4 7 Ret 17
14   Wartburg
Wartburg (marque)
Wartburg was a car marque manufactured in East Germany.The name "Wartburg" derives from Wartburg Castle on one of the hills overlooking the town of Eisenach where the cars were manufactured....

38 2 39 15
15   Volkswagen
Volkswagen
Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...

6 19 12 5 10 15
16   Peugeot
Peugeot
Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe.The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion...

Ret 3 10 22 13
17   Mitsubishi
Mitsubishi
The Mitsubishi Group , Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies is a Japanese multinational conglomerate company that consists of a range of autonomous businesses which share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark and legacy...

7 4
18   Škoda
Škoda Auto
Škoda Auto , more commonly known as Škoda, is an automobile manufacturer based in the Czech Republic. Škoda became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group in 2000, positioned as the entry brand to the group...

8 15 3
19   Alfa Romeo
Alfa Romeo in motorsport
During its history, Alfa Romeo has competed successfully in many different categories of motorsport, including Grand Prix motor racing, Formula One, sportscar racing, touring car racing and rallies. They have competed both as a constructor and an engine supplier, via works entries and private...

19 17 Ret 13 9 2
20   Audi
Audi
Audi AG is a German automobile manufacturer, from supermini to crossover SUVs in various body styles and price ranges that are marketed under the Audi brand , positioned as the premium brand within the Volkswagen Group....

51 10 10 2
Pos Manufacturer MON
 
SWE
 
POR
 
KEN
 
MAR
 
GRC
 
POL
 
FIN
 
AUT
 
ITA
 
USA
 
GBR
 
FRA
 
 Pts 
  • Positions in parentheses did not count to championship totals

See also

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