Martin Prokop

Martin Prokop (born 4 October 1982) is a Czech rally driver. He won the Junior World Rally Championship in the 2009 season.

Martin Prokop
Personal information
Nationality Czech
Born (1982-10-04) 4 October 1982
Jihlava, Czech Republic
World Rally Championship record
Active years2005present
TeamsCzech Ford National Team, Jipocar Czech National Team
Rallies123
Championships0
Rally wins0
Podiums0
Stage wins3
Total points214
First rally2005 Monte Carlo Rally

Career

Prokop during the shakedown of the 2009 Cyprus Rally.
Prokop during the 2010 Rally Finland.
Prokop during the 2012 Rallye de France.
Prokop at the 2015 Rally Poland.

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

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 WDC Points
2005 Martin Prokop Suzuki Ignis S1600 MON
21
SWE MEX NZL ITA
24
CYP TUR GRE
27
ARG FIN
36
GER
Ret
GBR
Ret
JPN FRA
22
ESP
22
AUS NC 0
2006 Martin Prokop Citroën C2 S1600 MON
20
SWE
45
MEX ESP
17
FRA
20
ARG ITA
37
GRE GER
22
FIN
35
JPN CYP TUR
21
AUS NZL GBR
25
NC 0
2007 Martin Prokop Citroën C2 S1600 MON
20
NOR MEX POR
Ret
ARG ITA
16
FIN
Ret
GER
11
NZL ESP
17
FRA
17
JPN IRE NC 0
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX SWE
Ret
GRE
20
GBR
20
2008 Martin Prokop Citroën C2 S1600 MEX
22
ITA
30
FIN
20
GER
Ret
ESP
16
FRA
19
JPN NC 0
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX MON SWE
12
ARG
15
JOR GRE
34
TUR
DSQ
NZL
10
GBR
Ret
2009 Martin Prokop Citroën C2 S1600 IRE
17
CYP
14
ITA
12
POL
12
FIN
14
ESP
Ret
NC 0
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX NOR
15
POR
10
ARG
DSQ
GRE
12
AUS
10
GBR
10
2010 Czech Ford National Team Ford Fiesta S2000 SWE
14
MEX
9
JOR TUR NZL
11
POR BUL FIN
13
GER
11
FRA
21
ESP GBR 18th 3
Barwa Rally Team JPN
10
2011 Czech Ford National Team Ford Fiesta S2000 SWE
12
MEX
7
POR JOR ITA
10
ARG GRE
15
FIN
12
GER
30
AUS FRA
14
ESP
13
19th 7
Ford Fiesta RS WRC GBR
22
2012 Czech Ford National Team Ford Fiesta RS WRC MON
9
SWE
9
MEX POR
5
GRE
5
NZL FIN
9
GER
Ret
GBR
9
FRA
9
ITA
8
9th 46
Autotek Motorsport ARG
4
ESP
13
2013 Jipocar Czech National Team Ford Fiesta RS WRC MON
7
SWE
7
MEX
9
POR
7
ARG
10
GRE
7
ITA
5
FIN
Ret
GER
4
AUS FRA
Ret
ESP
7
GBR
6
9th 63
2014 Jipocar Czech National Team Ford Fiesta RS WRC MON
Ret
SWE
Ret
MEX
5
POR
6
ARG
8
ITA
6
POL
10
FIN
Ret
GER
7
AUS FRA
10
ESP
8
GBR
9
9th 44
2015 Jipocar Czech National Team Ford Fiesta RS WRC MON
9
SWE
8
MEX
6
ARG
4
POR
10
ITA
Ret
POL
11
FIN
7
GER
Ret
AUS FRA
12
ESP
7
GBR
Ret
11th 39
2016 Jipocar Czech National Team Ford Fiesta RS WRC MON SWE MEX
7
ARG POR
8
ITA
9
POL FIN GER CHN
C
FRA ESP
Ret
GBR AUS 15th 12
2017 OneBet Jipocar Czech National Team Ford Fiesta RS WRC MON SWE MEX FRA ARG POR
14
ITA
28
POL FIN GER ESP GBR AUS NC 0
2018 MP-Sports Ford Fiesta RS WRC MON SWE MEX FRA ARG POR ITA
11
FIN GER TUR GBR ESP AUS NC 0
2019 MP-Sports Ford Fiesta RS WRC MON SWE MEX FRA ARG CHL POR ITA
15
FIN GER TUR GBR ESP AUS
C
NC 0
2020 MP-Sports Ford Fiesta RS WRC MON SWE MEX EST TUR ITA
15
MNZ NC 0

* Season still in progress

JWRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 JWRC Points
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
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
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
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

IRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 WDC Points
2006 Martin Prokop Citroën C2 S1600 RSA YPR
11
MAD ITA - 0
2009 BF Goodrich Drivers Team Peugeot 207 S2000 MON BRA KEN POR BEL RUS POR CZE
5
ESP ITA SCO 27th 4
2010 Czech Ford Rally Team 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
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 No Vehicle Position Stages won
2016 Cars 329 Toyota Hilux 14th 0
2017 321 Ford Raptor 11th 0
2018 315 7th 0
2019 305 6th 0
2020 306 12th 0
2021 312 9th 0

References

  1. "Driver profile – Martin Prokop". eWRC-results.com. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
  2. "Prokop wins J-WRC title with Finnish victory". Rally-Live.com. 2 August 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Sébastien Ogier
Junior World Rally Champion
2009
Succeeded by
Aaron Burkart
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