The 2014 Tour de Corse was the 11th and final round of the

2014 European Rally Championship The 2014 European Rally Championship season was the 62nd season of the FIA European Rally Championship, the European continental championship series in rallying. The season was also the second following the merger between the European Rally Champi ...

season, held on the island of Corsica from 7–9 November 2014.

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The title fight was meant to go down to the wire here at Corsica between Škoda team-mates Esapekka Lappi and Sepp Wiegand. But, a fire following a testing crash for Wiegand made Lappi the champion by default. Lappi, pleased to have been crowned the newest European Rally Champion before the event had even begun, was hoping to add to his tally of wins. It was not to be, though, as the Finn crashed on Stage 6, ending his rally. Ex-Formula 1 driver

Stéphane Sarrazin Stéphane Jean-Marc Sarrazin (born 2 November 1975) is a French professional racing driver. He has won races across a number of single-seater, sportscar and rallying disciplines and competitions, was French Formula Renault champion in 1994, and ...

led the majority of the rally, having won most of the stages to take a dominating win, ahead of his compatriot

Bryan Bouffier Bryan Bouffier (born 1 December 1978) is French rally driver. He is currently competing in the European Rally Championship with a Citroën DS3 S2000. He won the 2011 Monte Carlo Rally and the 2013 Tour de Corse. Career In 2002 Bouffier won ...

. This was the second time this year a

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driver had won in the ERC as

Robert Kubica Robert Józef Kubica (; born 7 December 1984) is a Polish racing and rally driver. He was the first and, , the only Polish racing driver to compete in Formula One. Between 2006 and 2009 he drove for the BMW Sauber F1 team, promoted from test d ...

had won the season-opening

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Vitaliy Pushkar Vitaliy Pushkar ( ua, Пушкар Віталій Олексійович; born May 9, 1987) is a Ukrainian rally driver, Ukrainian rally vice-champion, European rally champion in ERC Production Cup category, and The Boar ProRacing team driver. ...

was crowned ERC Production Cup champion after the withdrawals of his nearest rivals

Keith Cronin Keith Cronin (born 18 July 1986) is an Irish rally driver and 4-time winner of the British Rally Championship. He won the 2009 British Rally Championship in his first year in the series, defeating multiple champion Mark Higgins in his priva ...

and Martin Hudec.

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won the Junior class but this wasn't enough to stop

Stéphane Lefebvre Stéphane Lefebvre (born 16 March 1992) is a rally driver from France. He won the World Rally Championship-3 and Junior World Rally Championship The FIA Junior WRC, also known as JWRC and previously known as Junior World Rally Championship ...

from clinching the title, while Zoltán Bessenyey retained the 2WD title.

Eric Camilli Eric Camilli (born 6 September 1987) is a French rally driver. He has competed in the World Rally Championship since 2014. After starting out in the lower levels, he made his debut in the top level in 2016 while driving for M-Sport in a Ford ...

also received the McRae Flat Out Award for the first time.

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