Martin Prokop
![]() Prokop at the 2014 Rallye Deutschland. | |
Personal information | |
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Nationality | ![]() |
Born | (1982-10-04) 4 October 1982 (age 41) Jihlava, Czechoslovakia |
World Rally Championship record | |
Active years | 2005–present |
Teams | Czech Ford National Team, Jipocar Czech National Team |
Rallies | 134 |
Championships | 0 |
Rally wins | 0 |
Podiums | 0 |
Stage wins | 3 |
Total points | 214 |
First rally | 2005 Monte Carlo Rally |
Martin Prokop (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmar.tɪn ˈpro.kop], born 4 October 1982) is a Czech rally driver. He won the Junior World Rally Championship in the 2009 season.
Career
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After competing in the Czech Rally Championship for four years, Prokop debuted in the World Rally Championship at the 2005 Monte Carlo Rally, finishing ninth in the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) category. He ended his season with the same position in the overall junior standings. In the 2006 season, Prokop took his first JWRC win at the Rally Catalunya and finished tenth in the championship.[1]
In 2007, Prokop continued in the junior class and won the Rallye Deutschland and the Tour de Corse. In the overall standings, he placed third behind the two Swifts of Per-Gunnar Andersson and Urmo Aava. In the 2008 season, Prokop contested both the JWRC and the Production World Rally Championship (PWRC), finishing third and fifth, respectively.
In 2009, Prokop continued competing in both WRC support championships. In August 2009, he secured the junior world title with a win at the Rally Finland, after earlier driving his Citroën C2 S1600 to victory in Cyprus and Italy.[2] He finished 2nd in PWRC 2009 standings after Armindo Araujo.
In 2010, Prokop switched to SWRC with Ford Fiesta S2000. He is first driver who won special stage of WRC rally with s2000 car, it was SS16 at 2010 Rally Sweden. Prokop had strong results during the season 3rd at Rally Sweden, 2nd at Rally Mexico, Rallye Deutschland and Rally Japan. Prokop had chances to become SWRC champion at Rallye de France, but because of his problems with power steering he was losing time every stage and finished 6th.
In 2016, Martin Prokop started at Dakar Rally, competing fellow debuting world rally drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Sébastien Loeb. He missed first two rallies of the season but joined at 2016 Rally Mexico and finished 7th.
Racing record
WRC results
* Season still in progress
JWRC results
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | JWRC | Points |
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2005 | Martin Prokop | Suzuki Ignis S1600 | MON 9 | MEX | ITA 7 | GRE 7 | FIN 6 | GER Ret | FRA 7 | ESP 5 | 9th | 13 | |
2006 | Martin Prokop | Citroën C2 S1600 | SWE 11 | ESP 1 | FRA | ARG | ITA 11 | GER 5 | FIN 8 | TUR 6 | GBR | 10th | 18 |
2007 | Martin Prokop | Citroën C2 S1600 | NOR | POR Ret | ITA 3 | FIN Ret | GER 1 | ESP 2 | FRA 1 | 3rd | 34 | ||
2008 | Martin Prokop | Citroën C2 S1600 | MEX 7 | JOR | ITA 10 | FIN 1 | GER Ret | ESP 1 | FRA 1 | 3rd | 32 | ||
2009 | Martin Prokop | Citroën C2 S1600 | IRE 2 | CYP 1 | POR | ARG | ITA 1 | POL 2 | FIN 1 | ESP Ret | 1st | 42 |
PWRC results
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | PWRC | Points |
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2007 | Martin Prokop | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX | SWE Ret | MEX | ARG | GRE | NZL | JPN | IRE | GBR | NC | 0 |
2008 | Martin Prokop | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX | SWE 4 | ARG 7 | GRE 14 | TUR DSQ | FIN | NZL 1 | JAP | GBR Ret | 5th | 17 |
2009 | Martin Prokop | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX | NOR 3 | CYP | POR 2 | ARG DSQ | ITA | GRE 4 | AUS 1 | GBR 1 | 2nd | 39 |
SWRC results
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | SWRC | Points |
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2010 | Czech Ford National Team | Ford Fiesta S2000 | SWE 3 | MEX 2 | JOR | NZL 3 | POR | FIN 4 | GER 2 | FRA 6 | GBR | 3rd | 104 | |
Barwa Rally Team | JPN 2 | |||||||||||||
2011 | Czech Ford National Team | Ford Fiesta S2000 | MEX 1 | JOR | ITA 3 | GRE 5 | FIN 2 | GER 6 | FRA 3 | ESP 3 | 3rd | 106 |
WRC-Trophy results
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Pos. | Points |
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2017 | OneBet Jipocar Czech National Team | Ford Fiesta RS WRC | MON | SWE | MEX | FRA | ARG | POR 1 | ITA 3 | POL | FIN | GER | ESP | GBR | AUS | 4th | 40 |
WRC-2 results
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Pos. | Points |
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2021 | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II | MON | ARC 6 | CRO | POR 7 | ITA 4 | KEN Ret | EST | BEL | GRE 5 | FIN 4 | ESP | MNZ | 9th | 51 | |
2022 | Martin Prokop | Ford Fiesta Rally2 | MON | SWE | CRO | POR 7 | ITA 9 | KEN Ret | EST | FIN 8 | BEL | GRE 8 | NZL | ESP | JPN | 22nd | 16 |
* Season still in progress.
IRC results
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | WDC | Points |
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2006 | ![]() | Citroën C2 S1600 | RSA | YPR 11 | MAD | ITA | - | 0 | ||||||||
2009 | ![]() | Peugeot 207 S2000 | MON | BRA | KEN | POR | BEL | RUS | POR | CZE 5 | ESP | ITA | SCO | 27th | 4 | |
2010 | ![]() | Ford Fiesta S2000 | MON | BRA | ARG | CAN | ITA | BEL | AZO | MAD | CZE | ITA | SCO | CYP 3 | 13th | 6 |
Czech Rally Championship results
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | MMČR | Points |
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2001 | Elsev Racing Team | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI | ŠUM | VAL | KRU | BOH | BAR | PŘÍ | TŘE 15 | - | 0 | ||
2002 | Elsev Racing Team | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI | ŠUM Ret | VAL | KRU | BOH | 23rd | 24 | |||||
Jipocar Racing | PŘÍ 15 | ||||||||||||
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII | BAR Ret | TŘE 8 | |||||||||||
2003 | Jipocar Racing | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII | ŠUM 25 | VAL 10 | KRU 11 | BOH 27 | BAR Ret | PŘÍ 16 | TŘE 9 | 14th | 18 | ||
2004 | Jipocar Racing | Škoda Octavia WRC | JÄN 11 | ŠUM 1 | TAT 4 | KRU 6 | BOH Ret | BAR Ret | PŘÍ | TŘE | 5th | 60 | |
2005 | Martin Prokop | Suzuki Ignis S1600 | JÄN 22 | ŠUM 21 | VAL 4 | TAT | KRU 6 | BOH 23 | BAR Ret | PŘÍ | TŘE | 14th | 25 |
2006 | Jipocar Racing | Citroën C2 S1600 | JÄN | ŠUM | TAT | KRU | BOH 3 | BAR 5 | TŘE | PŘÍ | 12th | 31 | |
2007 | Jipocar Czech National Team | Citroën C2 S1600 | JÄN | ŠUM | KRU | BOH 3 | HOR | BAR | PŘÍ | - | 0 | ||
2009 | BF Goodrich Drivers Team | Peugeot 207 S2000 | VAL | ŠUM | KRU | HUS | BAR 4 | PŘÍ | BOH | - | 0 | ||
2010 | Czech Ford National Team | Ford Fiesta S2000 | VAL | ŠUM | KRU | HUS | BOH 1 | BAR | PŘÍ | - | 0 |
Dakar Rally results
Year | Class | Vehicle | Position | Stages won |
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2016 | Cars | ![]() | 14th | |
2017 | ![]() | 11th | ||
2018 | 7th | |||
2019 | 6th | |||
2020 | 12th | |||
2021 | 9th | |||
2022 | 26th | |||
2023 | 6th | |||
2024 | 5th |
References
External links
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- Official website
- Martin Prokop on X
Sporting positions | ||
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Preceded by | Junior World Rally Champion 2009 | Succeeded by |