2016 NACAM Rally Championship

The 2016 NACAM Rally Championship was the ninth season of the NACAM Rally Championship. This championship was the FIA regional rally championship for the North America and Central America (NACAM) region. The season began 8 April in Oaxaca, Mexico, and ended 22 October in Costa Rica, after five events.[1]

2016 NACAM Rally Championship
Previous:	2015	Next:	2017

Rallies in Panama and Jamaica were dropped from the championship in favour of a second event in Costa Rica, the Rally La Ponderosa and for the first time, a rally in Canada, the Rallye Baie-des-Chaleurs in New Richmond, Quebec. Apart from this new event, the other four rallies were single day events.

Defending champion Ricardo Triviño won his seventh NACAM championship. Triviño won the first four events of the series. Season-long rival Francisco Name Jr. was second in those same events and won the final rally of the year but was still 24 points behind Triviño. They were the only two drivers to pursue the entire championship. Third in the championship, Miguel Medina drove only the first two events in Mexico finishing third in both.

Event calendar and results

The 2016 NACAM Rally Championship was as follows:

Round	Rally name	Podium finishers				Statistics
		Rank	Driver	Car	Time	Stages	Length	Starters	Finishers
1	Rally Montañas Sierra Fria Aguascalientes (8–9 April)[2]	1	Ricardo Triviño	Citroën DS3 R5	1:00:11.8	8	108.30 km	23	16
		2	Emilio Velázquez	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	1:00:59.8
		3	Francisco Name Jr.	Citroën DS3 R3T	1:01:37.3
2	RAC 1000 Rally (6–7 May)[3]	1	Ricardo Triviño	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	1:10:32.4	8	104.06 km	24	16
		2	Benito Guerra jr.	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	1:12:05.8
		3	Francisco Name Jr.	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	1:13:02.4
3	Rallye Baie-des-Chaleurs (1–3 July)[4]	1	Joël Levac	Mini John Cooper Works WRC	2:09:59.5	14	197.87 km	34	22
		2	André Leblanc	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	2:11:31.8
		3	Maxime Labrie	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	2:13:45.1
4	Rally Costa del Pacifico (27 August)[5]	1	Ricardo Triviño	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	1:06:21.2	8	96.80 km	9	8
		2	Francisco Name Jr.	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	1:06:42.7
		3	Gerardo Moreno	Peugeot 206	1:13:22.3
5	Rally La Ponderosa (22 October)[6]	1	Francisco Name Jr.	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	56:09.5	8	96.80 km	10	8
		2	Ricardo Triviño	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	56:46.2
		3	Julián Jaramillo	Subaru Impreza STi N16	1:00:22.9

Championship standings

The 2016 NACAM Rally Championship points are as follows:[7]

Pos. Driver Vehicle MON 1000 BdC CdP PON Total 1 Ricardo Triviño Citroën DS3 R5 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 1 1 1 1 2 132 2 Francisco Name Jr. Citroën DS3 R3T Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 2 2 2 2 1 108 3 Miguel Medina Ford Fiesta R2 3 3 32 4 Andrés Molina Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 3 4 28 5 Julián Jaramillo Subaru Impreza STi N16 3 16 6 Jose Alexander Gelvez Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 4 12

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Excluded (EX) Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Cancelled (C) Blank Withdrew entry from the event (WD)

References

1. "Events Calendar Season 2016". Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
2. "43. Rally Montañas Sierra Fria Aguascalientes 2016". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 12 April 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
3. "28. RAC 1000 Rally 2016". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 17 May 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
4. "39. Rallye Baie-des-Chaleurs 2016". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
5. "Rally Costa del Pacifico 2016". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 23 October 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
6. "Rally La Ponderosa 2016". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 23 October 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
7. "Classifications Season 2016". Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. Retrieved 12 August 2018.

External links

• Official website