Martin Prokop

Martin Prokop

Prokop at the 2014 Rallye Deutschland.
Personal information
Nationality	Czech
Born	October 4, 1982
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2005–present
Teams	Czech Ford National Team, Jipocar Czech National Team
Rallies	118
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	3
Total points	189
First rally	2005 Monte Carlo Rally

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

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 2014 Rallye Deutschland.

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 21				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

* 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

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	Vehicle	Position	Stages won
2016	Cars	Toyota	14th	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.

External links

• Official website
• Martin Prokop on Twitter