Quick Facts
Biography
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
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, 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 |
| 2017 |  Ford | 11th | 0 |