WRC 2025 Monte Carlo: Entry List revealed

WRC 2025 Monte Carlo: Entry List revealed

5th January 2025 0 By Kamron Kent

The World Rally Championship is back on the horizon with the season opener Rally Monte-Carlo just weeks away and 70 crews will contest the event, the entry list reveals. 

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The three WRC teams, Hyundai, Toyota, and M-Sport Ford, will once again battle on asphalt, snow, and gravel throughout the new year. This year sees an expanded championship with 14 rounds making up the 2025 season.

Monte-Carlo will kick off the action as it traditionally does, on January 23-26, with 70 crews across all categories taking on the famous event. Hyundai will field three cars for the event, and M-Sport will enter two but Toyota has opted to run five cars.

The car will also run hybrid-less after the technical regulations were changed ahead of the upcoming season. At the same time, Hankook will be introduced to the sport in the event as the WRC’s new sole tyre supplier.

Hyundai’s defending world champions, Theirry Neuville and Martijn Wyadeghe, head the entry list, running #1 on their Rally1 Hyundai i20 N entry. The Belgian crew will be joined by 2019 world champion Ott Tanak and newcomer Adrien Fourmaux, who comes over from M-Sport Ford after an impressive season last year.

As previously mentioned, Toyota will field a five-car lineup for the curtain raiser. Kalle Rovanpera and Jonne Halttunen will return to the sport after a part-time schedule last season. Eight-time world champion Sebastien Ogier will join the two-time world champions. 

Elfyn Evans and Takamoto Katsuta will join their teammates with Sami Pajari who will join the line-up in his first event of a full-time  WRC Rally1 schedule following a successful WRC2 campaign in 2024. 

For M-Sport Ford, Gregoire Munster will take over as the experienced Rally1 driver for the team after Fourmaux moved allegiances over the off-season break. The Luxembourg driver will be teamed up with Josh McErlean to complete the 10 WRC Rally1 entries.

The remaining 60 crews will consist of the feeder categories of the WRC pyramid with a typically strong WRC2 entry list as 24 crews will participate in the second-tier.  

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Hi, I'm Kamron. I created ApexMotorsports.co.uk in the dying embers of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. It allowed me freedom to write whatever I wanted to write about which was all things motorsports, my passion. I have put a lot of effort in over the years to keep this website in its best shape and I've loved seeing the brand grow consistently, month-on-month, year-on-year. My ambition is to keep watching this brand grow into a primary outlet of news for all things motorsports whilst fueling my desire to pursue a career in sports journalism, specialising in motorsports.

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Hi, I'm Kamron. I created ApexMotorsports.co.uk in the dying embers of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. It allowed me freedom to write whatever I wanted to write about which was all things motorsports, my passion. I have put a lot of effort in over the years to keep this website in its best shape and I've loved seeing the brand grow consistently, month-on-month, year-on-year. My ambition is to keep watching this brand grow into a primary outlet of news for all things motorsports whilst fueling my desire to pursue a career in sports journalism, specialising in motorsports.

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