World Championship rallies 1982–1986

Sixty-one world championship rallies were run in the Group B era, from the 1982 Monte Carlo Rally to the 1986 Olympus Rally in the USA — including the 1986 Rallye Sanremo, whose result was later annulled. Each has its own page.

61
rallies (60 counted)
14
different events
2,030
special stages
37,446 km
of special stages

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World Rally Championship 1982 — all ralliesAll 12 rounds of the 1982 World Rally Championship, each with its own page: route, entries, the story of the rally and the top-10 result.Read more →World Rally Championship 1983 — all ralliesAll 12 rounds of the 1983 World Rally Championship, each with its own page: route, entries, the story of the rally and the top-10 result.Read more →World Rally Championship 1984 — all ralliesAll 12 rounds of the 1984 World Rally Championship, each with its own page: route, entries, the story of the rally and the top-10 result.Read more →World Rally Championship 1985 — all ralliesAll 12 rounds of the 1985 World Rally Championship, each with its own page: route, entries, the story of the rally and the top-10 result.Read more →World Rally Championship 1986 — all ralliesAll 13 rounds of the 1986 World Rally Championship, each with its own page: route, entries, the story of the rally and the top-10 result.Read more →

The stage totals exclude the Safari Rally and the Ivory Coast Rally, which were timed on open road sections rather than special stages, and the annulled 1986 Sanremo. Sanremo 1986 is listed for completeness but is not counted in any statistics on this site.

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Sources

  1. Jonkka's World Rally Archive (juwra.com) — https://www.juwra.com/
  2. eWRC-results.com — https://ewrc-results.com/
  3. Wikipedia (EN), World Rally Championship seasons 1982–1986 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_World_Rally_Championship

All text is original writing for Grouve Sports Management Group, based on the sources above. Facts checked on 21 October 2026.

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