Martin Prokop

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

Career

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.

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. 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, 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

JWRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 JWRC Points 2005 Martin Prokop Suzuki Ignis S1600 MON9 MEX ITA7 GRE7 FIN6 GERRet FRA7 ESP5 9th 13 2006 Martin Prokop Citroën C2 S1600 SWE11 ESP1 FRA ARG ITA11 GER5 FIN8 TUR6 GBR 10th 18 2007 Martin Prokop Citroën C2 S1600 NOR PORRet ITA3 FINRet GER1 ESP2 FRA1 3rd 34 2008 Martin Prokop Citroën C2 S1600 MEX7 JOR ITA10 FIN1 GERRet ESP1 FRA1 3rd 32 2009 Martin Prokop Citroën C2 S1600 IRE2 CYP1 POR ARG ITA1 POL2 FIN1 ESPRet 1st 42

PWRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 PWRC Points 2007 Martin Prokop Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX SWERet MEX ARG GRE NZL JPN IRE GBR NC 0 2008 Martin Prokop Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX SWE4 ARG7 GRE14 TURDSQ FIN NZL1 JAP GBRRet 5th 17 2009 Martin Prokop Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX NOR3 CYP POR2 ARGDSQ ITA GRE4 AUS1 GBR1 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 SWE3 MEX2 JOR NZL3 POR FIN4 GER2 FRA6 GBR 3rd 104 Barwa Rally Team JPN2 2011 Czech Ford National Team Ford Fiesta S2000 MEX1 JOR ITA3 GRE5 FIN2 GER6 FRA3 ESP3 3rd 106

WRC-Trophy results Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Points 2017 OneBet Jipocar Czech National Team Ford Fiesta RS WRC MON SWE MEX FRA ARG POR1 ITA3 POL FIN GER ESP GBR AUS 4th 40

WRC-2 results

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 YPR11 MAD ITA - 0 2009 BF Goodrich Drivers Team Peugeot 207 S2000 MON BRA KEN POR BEL RUS POR CZE5ESP ITA SCO 27th 4 2010 Czech Ford Rally Team Ford Fiesta S2000 MON BRA ARG CAN ITA BEL AZO MAD CZE ITA SCO CYP3 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 TŘE15 - 0 2002 Elsev Racing Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI ŠUMRet VAL KRU BOH 23rd 24 Jipocar Racing PŘÍ15 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII BARRet TŘE8 2003 Jipocar Racing Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII ŠUM25 VAL10 KRU11 BOH27 BARRet PŘÍ16 TŘE9 14th 18 2004 Jipocar Racing Škoda Octavia WRC JÄN11 ŠUM1 TAT4 KRU6 BOHRet BARRet PŘÍ TŘE 5th 60 2005 Martin Prokop Suzuki Ignis S1600 JÄN22 ŠUM21 VAL4 TAT KRU6 BOH23 BARRet PŘÍ TŘE 14th 25 2006 Jipocar Racing Citroën C2 S1600 JÄN ŠUM TAT KRU BOH3 BAR5 TŘE PŘÍ 12th 31 2007 Jipocar Czech National Team Citroën C2 S1600 JÄN ŠUM KRU BOH3 HOR BAR PŘÍ - 0 2009 BF Goodrich Drivers Team Peugeot 207 S2000 VAL ŠUM KRU HUS BAR4 PŘÍ BOH - 0 2010 Czech Ford National Team Ford Fiesta S2000 VAL ŠUM KRU HUS BOH1 BAR PŘÍ - 0

Dakar Rally results