Kris Meeke won four of the nine rallies he contested allowing him to win the title by eleven points. The 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge was the fourth season of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge . The season consists of twelve rounds and began on January 21, with the 77° Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo . The season ended on November 21, at the inaugural RAC Rally of Scotland . With four wins, Kris Meeke won the championship ahead of Jan Kopecký and Freddy Loix .
The calendar had been increased from 10 events in 2008, to twelve in 2009. Out went the Istanbul Rally, the Rally de Portugal , the Rallye International du Valais and the China Rally . To be replaced by the Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo , the Rally Internacional de Curitiba, the Safari Rally , the Rallye Açores, Rally Japan and the Rally of Scotland . Rally Japan was later cancelled, mainly because the major manufacturers looked unlikely to travel to Japan.
Entrant Constructor Car Driver Co-driver Rounds Peugeot Team Belux Peugeot Peugeot 207 S2000 Nicolas Vouilloz Nicolas Klinger 1–2, 4–5, 7–10 Freddy Loix Isidoor Smets 1–2 Frédéric Miclotte 4–5, 7–10 Pieter Tsjoen Eddy Chevaillier 5 Team Peugeot Total Stéphane Sarrazin Jacques-Julien Renucci 1 Bruno Magalhães Carlos Magalhães 4, 7 H.F. Grifone SRL Didier Auriol Denis Giraudet 1 Corrado Fontana Carlo Cassina 5, 7–9 Luigi Fontana Tullio Vitali 7 BF Goodrich Drivers Team Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia 1 Thierry Neuville Achim Maraite 5 Martin Prokop Jan Tománek 8 Luca Cantamessa Piercarlo Capolongo 10 Adam Gould Sebastian Marshall 11 Peugeot UK Kris Meeke Paul Nagle 1–2, 4–5, 7–11 F.P.F. Sport SRL Tobia Cavallini Flavio Zanella 1 Paolo Andreucci Anna Andreussi 10 Marco Signor Maurizio Barone 10 PH Sport Conrad Rautenbach Daniel Barritt 4 Gilles Schammel Renaud Jamoul 5 Cersanit Rally Team Michał Sołowow Maciek Baran 5, 7–9 Tsunami Rally Team Alexander Zheludov Iria Kolomeytseva 6 Team C.D. Nacional da Madeira/Olca Alexandre Camacho Padro Calado 7 Tescoma Rally Team Roman Kresta Petr Gross 8 Peugeot Total Hungaria János Tóth Robert Tagai 8 Island Motorsport Ranato Travaglia Lorenzo Granai 10 Abarth & C. Spa Abarth Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 Giandomenico Basso Mitia Dotta 1–2, 4–9 Luca Rossetti Matteo Chiarcossi 1, 7–8, 10 Anton Alén Timo Alanne 1–2, 4, 6 Bernd Casier Francis Caesemaeker 5 Miguel Fuster Jose Vicente Medina 9 François Duval Denis Giraduet 10 Umberto Scandola Guido D'Amore 10 Astra Racing Toni Gardemeister Tomi Tuominen 1 Julien Maurin Gilles Thimonier 1 Procar Bernardo Sousa Jorge Carvalho 4, 7 Keith Cronin Greg Shinnors 11 Škoda Motorsport Škoda Škoda Fabia S2000 Juho Hänninen Mikko Markkula 1, 4–6, 8, 10 Jan Kopecký Petr Starý 1, 4–6, 8–10 René Georges Rally Sport François Duval Denis Giraudet 5 Škoda Rally Team Italia Julien Maurin Gilles Thimonier 7, 9–10 Piero Longhi Maurizio Imerito 10 Delimax Team Pavel Valoušek Zdeněk Hrůza 8 E-Art Rally Team Evgeny Novikov Stéphane Prévot 8 A.C. Principado de Asturias Alberto Hevia Alberto Iglesias 9 Škoda Motorsport UK Guy Wilks Phil Pugh 11 Mellors Elliot Motorsport Proton Proton Satria Neo S2000 5–10 Bryan Bouffier Xavier Panseri 8 Alister McRae Bill Hayes 11 Interwetten Racing Mitsubishi Ralliart Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX Franz Wittmann Bernhard Ettel 1, 4–6, 8–11 BPS Racing Frédéric Romeyer Thomas Fournel 1 Tango Rally Team Marcos Ligato Rubén García 2 Alejandro Cancio Santiago García 2 Triton Team Lee Rose Nick Patel 3 Dalbit Team Carl Tundo Tim Jessop 3 Alastair Cavenagh Saleem Haji 3 Team Além Mar Ricardo Moura Sancho Eiró 4 Luís Ramalho 7 Ricardo Carmo Justino Reis 4 Peres Competições Fernando Peres Jose Pedro Silva 4, 7 Prosport Andrey Zhigunov Igor Ter-Oganesiants 6 EuroOil Čepro Czech National Team Vaclav Pech Petr Uhel 8 David Bogie Rallying David Bogie Kevin Rae 11 DGM Sport Jonathan Greer Dai Roberts 11 Heuvel Motorsport Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X Jasper van den Heuvel Martine Kolman 5, 8 Sunvic Volkswagen Volkswagen Polo S2000 Lola Verlaque Megan Verlaque 3 René Georges Rally Sport Julien Maurin Gilles Thimonier 4 Autostal Duindistel Patrick Snijers Cindy Cokelaere 5 Motor Sport Developments Opel Opel Corsa OPC S2000 Alexandre Bengue Matthieu Baumel 5 Andreas Mikkelsen Ola Fløene 8 Toni Gardemeister Tomi Tuominen 9 Lada Sport Rally Honda Honda Civic Type-R R3 Kaspar Koitla Ain Heiskonen 6 Andres Ots 11 Aava-Sikk Youth Team Martin Kangur Kuldar Sikk 11
Only the best seven scores from each driver count towards the championship. Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Excluded (EX) Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Cancelled (C) Blank Withdrew entry from the event (WD)
Only the best seven scores from each manufacturer count towards the championship.