how does it work in 2025?

The 2025 WRC season opens this week with the always highly anticipated Rallye Monte-Carlo. If new technical features appear, with Rally1 cars now without a hybrid system, lighter and equipped with Hankook tires, the change also concerns the points scale for the championship.

Last year, it was the subject of a major overhaul, intended to make the Sunday morning specials more challenging. Not always understood or well accepted, the 2024 scale has nevertheless borne fruit on this point. The main criticism was the reduced merit for the winner of the rally, who was not guaranteed to score more points than his runner-up.

By learning the lessons of this first year of testing, the FIA ​​and the WRC have therefore evolved the system by putting the emphasis back on the final result, and by removing the validation of points which was done on Saturday evening.

With a maximum of 35 points at stake and bringing the highest possible score for second in the rally to 27 points, the risk of the event winner scoring fewer points than second will still exist but will now be significantly mitigated .

Here is how the points for the drivers' championship will be allocated this weekend at the end of the Monte-Carlo Rally, the first three special stages of which will take place on Thursday evening.

Rally result

General classification of the event established at the end of the last special.

Super Sunday

Ranking established on the basis of the accumulation of special stages contested only on Sunday.

Power Stage

Ranking of the last special stage of the rally

Ideal result