2012 NACAM Rally Championship

The 2012 NACAM Rally Championship was the 5th season of the FIA's NACAM Rally Championship. This Championship is the FIA rally championship for the North America and Central America region. The season began April 20 in Puebla, Mexico, and ended November 18 in Cartagena, Colombia, after 6 events. Raúl Orlandini Griswold was at that date the reigning champion.^[1] Ricardo Triviño, 2009 champion, ran in the championship.^[2]

Report

Round 1: Rally Cañadas

Ricardo Triviño took the first round in Puebla.^[3] Nicolás Bedoya not completed the first stage. Francisco Name also abandoned in after the third stage. Triviño won the first six stages making an advantage of 1:37.0 over John Powell. Powell won the last stage, but he only can recover 22.8 seconds. Triviño took the first place in the Driver's Championship.

Day	Stage	Time	Name	Length	Winner	Time	Avg. spd.	Rally leader
Leg 1 (April 21)	SS1	8:28	Tepenene-Huehuetlán 1	20.80 km	Ricardo Triviño	13:50.6	90.10 km/h	Ricardo Triviño
	SS2	9:09	Huehuetlán-La Magdalena T. 1	12.98 km	Ricardo Triviño	8:29.3	91.80 km/h
	SS3	9:34	La Magdalena T.-San Juan Atzompa 1	18.00 km	Ricardo Triviño	12:22.3	87.33 km/h
Leg 2 (April 21)	SS4	12:47	Tepenene-Huehuetlán 2	20.80 km	Ricardo Triviño	13:57.3	89.46 km/h
	SS5	13:28	Huehuetlán-La Magdalena T. 2	12.98 km	Ricardo Triviño	8:28.5	91.98 km/h
	SS6	13:53	La Magdalena T.-San Juan Atzompa 2	18.00 km	Ricardo Triviño	12:30.9	86.28 km/h
Leg 3 (April 21)	SS7	16:21	San Juan Atzompa-Huehuetlán	20.80 km	John Powell	18:52.7	91.50 km/h

Round 2: Rally Montañas

The second round in Oaxaca started with Carlos Izquierdo taking the lead. Powell, Landazuri and Fernández not finished the first stage. Triviño lost near 10 minutes in this stage. However, Triviño won the next 8 stages reaching the fourth place in the NACAM classification. In the special stage 10 Name had abandon, Name been in the second position. Izquierdo won the last 3 stages, and took the victory.^[4]

Day	Stage	Time	Name	Length	Winner	Time	Avg. spd.	Rally leader
Leg 1 (May 19)	SS1	8:08	Teotitlán 1	18.00 km	Carlos Izquierdo	15:50.1	68.21 km/h	Carlos Izquierdo
	SS2	8:41	Benito Juárez A 1	10.10 km	Ricardo Triviño	8:03.4	75.28 km/h
	SS3	8:59	Latuvi A 1	12.00 km	Ricardo Triviño	8:11.2	87.98 km/h
	SS4	10:12	Reynoso 1	11.80 km	Ricardo Triviño	7:58.5	88.68 km/h
	SS5	10:31	Latuvi B 1	10.10 km	Ricardo Triviño	7:50.5	77.36 km/h
	SS6	10:49	Benito Juárez B 1	17.50 km	Ricardo Triviño	14:48.1	70.94 km/h
Leg 2 (May 19)	SS7	12:37	Teotitlán 2	18.00 km	Ricardo Triviño	15:25.0	70.05 km/h
	SS8	13:10	Benito Juárez A 2	10.10 km	Ricardo Triviño	8:01.3	75.93 km/h
	SS9	13:28	Latuvi A 2	12.00 km	Ricardo Triviño	8:18.1	86.74 km/h
	SS10	14:41	Reynoso 2	11.80 km	Carlos Izquierdo	8:26.7	83.78 km/h
	SS11	15:00	Latuvi B 2	10.10 km	Carlos Izquierdo	8:21.4	72.57 km/h
	SS12	15:18	Benito Juárez B 2	17.50 km	Carlos Izquierdo	15:48.2	66.45 km/h

Round 3: Rally Costa del Pacífico

Day	Stage	Time	Name	Length	Winner	Time	Rally leader
Leg 1 (July 7)	SS1	8:23	Curubande 1	21.20 km	John Powell	9:46.2	John Powell
Leg 1 (July 7)	SS2	9:11	Curubande 2	21.20 km	John Powell	9:36.2
Leg 2 (July 7)	SS3	10:49	Curubande Invertido 1	21.20 km	John Powell	6:21.4
Leg 2 (July 7)	SS4	10:37	Curubande Invertido 2	21.20 km	Ricardo Triviño	6:16.6	Ricardo Triviño
Leg 3 (July 7)	SS5	13:10	Cañas Dulces 1	12.90 km	Ricardo Triviño
Leg 3 (July 7)	SS6	13:58	Cañas Dulces 2	12.90 km	John Powell
Leg 4 (July 7)	SS7	15:41	Cañas Dulces Invertido 1	12.90 km	Ricardo Triviño
Leg 4 (July 7)	SS8	16:29	Cañas Dulces Invertido 2	12.90 km	Ricardo Triviño

Calendar

The original calendar had six rallies, two of them in Mexico. Panama was originally included as the venue of the fifth round,^[5] however, on March 7 this round was changed to Ecuador.^[6]

Round	Rally Name (Base)	Date
1	31° Rally Cañadas (Puebla)	April 20–22
2	Rally Montañas (Oaxaca)	May 18–20
3	Rally Costa de Pacífico (Liberia)	July 6–8
4	Rally Cusco (Cusco)	August 30 – September 2
5	Rally Ecuador (Ecuador)	October 12–14
6	Rally Colombia (Cartagena)	November 16–18

Teams and drivers

Class 3
Team	Car	No.	Driver	Co-driver	Rounds
Triviño WRT	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	202	Ricardo Triviño	Marco Hernández	1–2
John Powell	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	203	John Powell	Michael Fennell	1–2
Name Racing	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	204	Francisco Name	Armando Zapata	1–2
Colombian Motorsports	Subaru Impreza	205	Nikolas Bedoya	Ricardo Abello	1
Riviera Maya Rally Team	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	206	Carlos Izquierdo	Guillermo Izquierdo	1–2
David Jassan	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	208	David Jassan	Rafael Maggio	2
Class 8
Dyer Racing Team	SEAT León	210	Yazmín Dyer	Julio Echazú	TBA
X Rally Ecuador	Mitsubishi Lancer DE	211	Diego Landazuri	Adolfo Espinosa	1–2
Rally Team Venezuela	Mitsubishi Lancer DE	212	Alejandro Lombardo	Miguel Alvarado	1–2
VP Garage	Mitsubishi Lancer DE	213	Luis Miguel Abascal	Jaime Marín	1
VP Garage	Mitsubishi Lancer DE	216	Víctor Pérez	Eduardo Espinosa	2
Mario Fernández	Renault Clio RS	214	Mario Fernández	Eduardo Solís	1–2
Molina Rally Team	Kia Cerato Mitsubishi Lancer DE	218	Andrés Molina	Eduardo Corrales	2
Class 6
Pandeportes Rally Team	Peugeot 206 XS	220	Dante Pescetto	Alejandro Domínguez	1–2
Zhumir Rally Team	Peugeot 206 XS	221	Diego Serrano	Felipe Serrano	TBA
Zhumir Rally Team	Peugeot 206 XS	222	Isabel Serrano	Juan Serrano	TBA
Big Cola Rally Team	Peugeot 206 XS	223	Pier Gozzer	Christian Franz	TBA

Results and standings

Results

Round	Rally name	Podium finishers				Statistics
Round	Rally name	Rank	Driver	Car	Time	Stages	Distance	Starters	Finishers
1	31° Rally Cañadas (April 20–22)	1	Ricardo Triviño	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	1:28:54.4	7	132.36 km	24	37
		2	John Powell	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	1:30:08.6
		3	Carlos Izquierdo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	1:34:08.8

2	Rally Montañas Oaxaca (May 18–20)	1	Carlos Izquierdo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	2:09:06.3	12	137.10 km	16	23
		2	Ricardo Triviño	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	2:19:35.6
		3	Andrés Molina	Mitsubishi Lancer DE	2:23:44.8

3	Rally Costa Rica (July 6–8)	1	Ricardo Triviño	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	1:04:07.2	8	138.85 km	14	16
		2	John Powell	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	1:10:11.0
		3	Andrés Molina	Mitsubishi Lancer DE	1:10:46.1

4	Rally Cusco (August 30 – September 2)	1	Ricardo Triviño	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	1:15:53.7		112.20 km
		2	Carlos Izquierdo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	1:18:12.9
		3	John Powell	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	1:23:46.2

5	Rally La Leyenda de Eldorado #1 (November 15–16)	1	Carlos Izquierdo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	1:23:04		108.18 km
		2	Ricardo Triviño	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	1:23:04
		3	Andrés Molina	Mitsubishi Lancer DE	1:33:57

6	Rally La Leyenda de Eldorado #2 (November 17–18)	1	Ricardo Triviño	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	1:26:41		126.69 km
		2	Carlos Izquierdo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	1:30:22
		3	Alejandro Lombardo	Mitsubishi Lancer DE	1:45:55

Driver's Championship

Points are awarded to the top 10 classified finishers. The best 5 of a driver's results count towards the championship.^[7]

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

Rank	Driver	PUE	OAX	CRC	PER	COL		Points
1	Ricardo Triviño	1	2	1	1	2	1	136
2	Carlos Izquierdo	3	1		2	1	2	101
3	Andrés Molina		4	3	4	3	Ret	54
4	John Powell	2	Ret	2	3			51
4	Alejandro Lombardo	7	5	4	6	Ret	3	51
6	Mario Fernández	6	Ret	Ret	5	4	4	42
6	Dante Pescetto	Ret	7	5	7	5	5	42
8	Víctor Pérez		3					15
9	Diego Landazuri	4	Ret					12
10	Luis Miguel Abascal	7						10
11	David Jassan		6					8
Rank	Driver	PUE	OAX	CRC	PER	COL		Points

Key
Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Did not finish (Ret)
Black	Excluded (EX)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
White	Cancelled (C)
Blank	Withdrew entry from the event (WD)

Nations Cup

Points indicated rather than rally position.

Rank	Nation	PUE	OAX	CRC	PER	COL		Points
1	Mexico	58	66	25	53	55	55	312
2	Costa Rica		12	15	12	15	0	54
3	Trinidad and Tobago	18	0	18	15			51
3	Venezuela	6	10	12	8	0	15	51
5	Panama	0	6	10	6	10	10	42
6	Ecuador	15	0					15
Rank	Nation	PUE	OAX	CRC	PER	COL		Points

References

^ "Orlandini obtuvo el título en Perú y se alista el cierre del NRC en Colombia". nacamrallychampionship.com. September 7, 2011. Archived from the original on September 3, 2012. Retrieved May 2, 2012.
^ "¡Triviño, campeón NACAM!". CNRM. September 8, 2009. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
^ "Un rally internacional bajo las cenizas del Popocatepetl". NACAM. April 27, 2012. Archived from the original on September 3, 2012.
^ "Carlos Izquierdo y Guillermo Izquierdo ganaron el Rally Montañas". nssoaxaca.com. May 19, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-07-25. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
^ "Calendario 2012". NACAM. Archived from the original on April 22, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
^ "El NRC vuelve a Ecuador". NACAM. March 7, 2012. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
^ "2012 FIA Regional Rallies Championships Sporting Regulations" (PDF). Federation Internationale de l'Automobile. p. V5, Art 5, Item 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012.

[1] "Orlandini obtuvo el título en Perú y se alista el cierre del NRC en Colombia". nacamrallychampionship.com. September 7, 2011. Archived from the original on September 3, 2012. Retrieved May 2, 2012.

[2] "¡Triviño, campeón NACAM!". CNRM. September 8, 2009. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2012.

[3] "Un rally internacional bajo las cenizas del Popocatepetl". NACAM. April 27, 2012. Archived from the original on September 3, 2012.

[4] "Carlos Izquierdo y Guillermo Izquierdo ganaron el Rally Montañas". nssoaxaca.com. May 19, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-07-25. Retrieved 2012-05-21.

[5] "Calendario 2012". NACAM. Archived from the original on April 22, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2012.

[6] "El NRC vuelve a Ecuador". NACAM. March 7, 2012. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2012.

[7] "2012 FIA Regional Rallies Championships Sporting Regulations" (PDF). Federation Internationale de l'Automobile. p. V5, Art 5, Item 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012.

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