The 2007 Wales Rally GB (formally known as 63rd Wales Rally of Great Britain) was the 16th round of the

2007 World Rally Championship The 2007 World Rally Championship was the 35th season in the FIA World Rally Championship. The season began on 19 January, with the Monte Carlo Rally and ended on 2 December, with the Wales Rally GB. Citroën's Sébastien Loeb won his fourth c ...

. The race was held over three days between 30 November and 2 December 2007.

Report

Sébastien Loeb became world champion for the fourth time in a row. He had thus equaled Tommi Mäkinen's record. Third place at the season finale in Wales was enough for the Citroën driver. Loeb started the last world championship race of the season six points ahead of his rival Marcus Grönholm. Grönholm was able to make up two points with second place, and in the end Loeb had a four-point lead in the drivers' standings. Rally won Grönholm teammate Mikko Hirvonen. He took the lead with four special stage best times on Friday. Hirvonen was 15.2 seconds clear of second-placed Gronholm to secure his fourth WRC win of his career. Subaru driver Petter Solberg came fourth behind the leading trio. He was able to conclude such a season with moderate success in a reasonably forgiving manner. Fourth place and his teammate Chris Atkinson's seventh place secured Subaru third place in the Manufacturers' Championship ahead of the Stobart team. Days two and three were dominated by young M-Sport driver Jari-Matti Latvala, who had already been confirmed as a driver for Ford for next year. However, since he had lost almost ten minutes on the first day due to a broken windshield wiper, he was only able to finish tenth.

Results

Retirements

Gabriel Pozzo Gabriel Pozzo (born March 26, 1979) is an Argentine rally driver competing in the World Rally Championship. His co-driver is Daniel Stillo. He is the PWRC champion of 2001 season. Pozzo was driving for Škoda Motorsport Škoda Motorsport i ...

- retired (SS6); *

Michał Sołowow Michał Sołowow (born 11 July 1962 in Kielce) is a Polish billionaire businessman and rally driver. His industrial group has 18 production plants in 8 countries and sells products in more than 60 countries on six continents and has over 16,000 ...

- retired (SS6); *

Claudiu David Claudiu David is a former Romanian Rally driver. He is now a mentor for high-performers, working with people who have already achieved what only a few people on the planet can, in a bespoke journey, to accomplish what is still missing in their lif ...

- mechanical (SS7); *

Conrad Rautenbach Conrad Rautenbach (born 12 November 1984) is a rally driver from Zimbabwe who competed in the World Rally Championship for the Citroën Junior Team along with his co-driver Daniel Barritt. He won the African Rally Championship twice, in 2007 ...

- went off the road (SS8); *

Andreas Mikkelsen Andreas Mikkelsen (born 22 June 1989) is a Norwegian rally driver. He is currently competing in the World Rally Championship-2 for Toksport World Rally Team. He previously drove for the factory teams of Volkswagen, Citroën and Hyundai in the Wo ...

- went off the road (SS9); * Stuart Jones - crashed (SS12); * Leszek Kuzaj - did not start leg 3 (SS13/14); *

Hayden Paddon Hayden Paddon (born 20 April 1987) is a New Zealand rally driver. He was PWRC world champion in 2011 and won the New Zealand Rally Championship in 2008, 2009, 2013, 2018 and 2021. Career Paddon was introduced into motorsport at an early age, h ...

- did not start leg 3 (SS13/14); * Spyros Pavlides - mechanical (SS14); * Yevgeni Vertunov - mechanical (SS14); *

Luís Pérez Companc Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

- went off the road (SS14/15); *

Patrik Flodin Patrik Flodin (born 16 August 1984) is a rally driver from Sweden. Flodin won the Swedish Championship in 2006. In 2009, Flodin contests in the Production World Rally Championship The FIA Production World Rally Championship, or PWRC, was a c ...

- mechanical (SS6);

Special Stages

All dates and times are

GMT Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight. At different times in the past, it has been calculated in different ways, including being calculated from noon; as a cons ...

( UTC).

Final championship standings

Drivers' championship

Manufacturers' championship

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...

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