The Rally Drivers and Co-Drivers from SOUTH AMERICA – NORTH AMERICA – OCEANIA – ASIA – MIDDLE EAST – AFRICA in the 2012 have obtained results needed to become part of the World Rally Ranking - WRR promoted by the IRDA (International Rally Drivers Association). 252Rally Drivers and 237 Rally Co-drivers, after the running all-international rallies in the FIA calendar 2012, have scored the necessary results to enter the World Rally Ranking. Following the best Rally Drivers and Co-drivers for each Middle East country:
SOUTH AMERICA
The best driver in SOUTH AMERICA is NICOLAS FUCHS (Perù) and the best codriver in SOUTH AMERICA is Fernando Mussano (Argentina)
Country
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Driver
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Codriver
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Argentina
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Marcos Ligato
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Fernando Mussano
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Bolivia
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Eduardo Peredo
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Luis Salazar
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Brazil
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Paulo Nobre
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Edu Paula
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Chile
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Eliseo Salazar
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/ / /
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Colombia
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Luis Valverde
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Juan Carlos Nunez
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Paraguay
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Gustavo Saba
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Victor Aguilera
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Perù
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Nicolas Fuchs
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Veronica Peyon
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Uruguay
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Rodrigo Zeballos
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Facundo Geymonat
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Venezuela
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Alejandro Lombardo
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/ / /
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NORTH AMERICA
The best driver in NORTH AMERICA is RICARDO TRIVINO (Mexico) and the best codriver in NORTH AMERICA is MARCO HERNANDEZ (Mexico)
Country
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Driver
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Codriver
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Costa Rica
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Andres Molina
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Eduardo Corrales
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Jamaica
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John Powell
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Mick Fenell
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Mexico
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Ricardo Trivino
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Marco Hernandez
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Panama
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Dante Pescetto
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/ / /
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USA
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Ken Block
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Alex Gelsomino
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OCEANIA
The best driver in OCEANIA is CHRIS ATKINSON (Australia) and the best codriver in OCEANIA is GLENN MACNEALL (Australia)
Country
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Driver
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Codriver
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Australia
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Chris Atkinson
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Glenn Macneall
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New Zealand
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Brian Green
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Fleur Pedersen
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ASIA
The best driver in ASIA is TOSHIHIRO ARAI (Japan) and the best codriver in ASIA is NAOKI KASE (Japan)
Country
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Driver
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Codriver
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China
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Dai Wei Yen
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Ping Yi Chou
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India
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Sanjay Ram Takle
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Musa Sherif
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Indonesia
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Subhan Aksa
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Vivek Ponnusamy
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Japan
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Toshihiro Arai
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Naoki Kase
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Malaysia
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Karamjit Singh
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Jagdev Singh
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Sri Lanka
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Dinesh Deheragoda
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Sanjaya Roshan
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Taiwan
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Yuan Hu Lin
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Hui Lan Shen
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Tahailand
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/ / /
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Nipaporn Asaisant
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MIDDLE EAST
The best driver in MIDDLE EAST is NASSER AL ATTIYAH (Qatar) and the best codriver in MIDDLE EAST is BAHADIR GUCENMEZ (Turkey)
Country
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Driver
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Codriver
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Cyprus
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Savvas Savva
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Andreas Papandreou
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Jordan
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Rasheed Alaa
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Ramzi Mansour
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Kuwait
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Salah Bin Eidan
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Mobarak Al Thefiri
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Lebanon
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Nicholai Georgiou
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Joseph Matar
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Qatar
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Nasser Al Attiyah
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Nasser Al Kuwari
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Saudi Arabia
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Yazeed Al Rajhi
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Amr Al Refai
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Turkey
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Yagiz Avci
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Bahadir Gucenmez
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United Arab Emirates
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Rashid Al Ketbi
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Khalid Al Kendi
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AFRICA
The best driver in AFRICA is MOHAMED ESSA (Zambia) and the best codriver in AFRICA is Greg Stead (Zambia)
Country
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Driver
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Codriver
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Egypt
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Ahmad El Kabany
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/ / /
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Kenya
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Carl Tundo
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Tim Jessop
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Madagascar
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BOOM ,
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BERTHIN ,
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Rwanda
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Giancarlo Davite
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Sylvia Vindevogel
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South Africa
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Jan Habig
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Carolyn Swan
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Uganda
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Jas Mangat
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Cedric Buzabo
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Zambia
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Mohamed Essa
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Greg Stead
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Zimbabwe
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Mark Cronje
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Robin Houghton
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World Rally Ranking is calculated through a points system, based on the importance, the sporting difficulty and the results obtained by drivers and co-drivers from around the world participating only in the rallies included in the FIA International Sporting Calendar.
The ranking is an objective and "impartial" standing, where rally driver of all nations see their value, the value of their victories and their results recognized as a whole, something that the current classification systems obviously do not allow, being based on standings for individual championships without a unique world classification.
Besides the overall ranking for drivers there is also one for co-drivers, and other partial rankings (by nation, by car, by manufacturer, by category, by surface).
The World Rally Ranking, just like other sports' rankings, is based on a computing system which assigns a base score, depending on the overall position obtained, then corrected through a system of coefficients to reflect the relevance, the importance, the difficulty and length of each rally, and therefore the importance of the result: the first factor is the validity of the rally, e.g. a World Rally Championship event has coeff. 15, a Middle East Rally Championship event has coeff. 9 etc etc .
All with maximum transparency: all the criteria can easily be verified in the IRDA Regulations on the www.worldrallyranking.com website.
Alongside the Rankings visible to all (the first 40 positions for each type of ranking) on the www.worldrallyranking.com website it is possible to access the complete rankings and to have the possibility to create customized rankings by registering with the form provided, by simply entering name and email address.
In short, a revolution for all the protagonists of the rally world, drivers, teams, journalists and fans.
All the results from January 1st 2010 to date of all the drivers and co-drivers of all nations in all the worldwide events in the FIA International Sporting Calendar have been included in the IRDA database.