The2015 Rally Guanajuato México was amotor racing event forrally cars that was held over four days between 5 and 8 March 2015. It marked the twenty-ninth running of theRally Mexico, and was the third round of the 2015World Rally Championship andWRC-2 seasons.
For the third year in succession,[1]Volkswagen Motorsport driverSébastien Ogier won the rally,[2] taking his fifth consecutive WRC win in the process. Ogier finished almost a minute-and-a-half clear of his closest competitor,Citroën World Rally Team'sMads Østberg. The podium was completed by Ogier's team-mateAndreas Mikkelsen, who finished 6.3 seconds in arrears of Østberg.[1]Nasser Al-Attiyah was the winner of the WRC-2 class, finishing almost eight minutes clear of anyone else, while also finishing in seventh place overall.[1][3]Nicolás Fuchs (ninth overall) andJari Ketomaa (tenth overall) completed the podium.[1][3]
During the third stage of the rally, Los Mexicanos,Ott Tänak crashed his car into a lake, but he and co-driverRaigo Mõlder were able to extract themselves from the car prior to it submerging. The car was recovered from the lake, in anticipation for the car to be repaired by theM-Sport World Rally Team. The team attempted to repair the car, dubbed theTiTänak[4][5][6] – aportmanteau of the RMSTitanic passenger liner, that sank in 1912, and Tänak's name – for the second day, but he was unable to start. He returned for Sunday's stages, finishing 22nd overall and scoring a manufacturers' championship point.[7]
Mexico
Sébastien Ogier
Volkswagen Motorsport
Mads Østberg
Jonas Andersson
Elfyn Evans
Dani Sordo
Martin Prokop
Nasser Al-Attiyah
Thierry Neuville
Nicolás Fuchs
Fernando Mussano
Jari Ketomaa
Yuriy Protasov
Massimiliano Rendina
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