Ranking the top 10 WRC drivers of 2022

The World Rally Championship welcomed in a new hybrid era in 2022, presenting an unknown challenge to the planet's top rally aces. New records were broken, as Toyota's leading charge became the youngest-ever title-winner, while familiar returning faces mixed it up with the new generation. Autosport picks out the 10 best performers from the year

Tom Howard Dec 5, 2022, 4:18 PM

Upd: Dec 5, 2022, 4:58 PM

After two seasons of titles going down to the wire, Kalle Rovanpera brought his own brand of dominance to World Rally Championship in 2022, blitzing the competition to secure a maiden title. While Rovanpera grabbed the headlines by re-defining the WRC winning formula at the tender age of 22, the Finn’s dominance wasn’t the only storyline from an action-packed season.

PLUS: How trailblazer Kalle Rovanpera has ripped up the WRC record book

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Author Tom Howard

Tom Howard is a News Editor working across both Autosport.com and Motorsport.com websites. Starting out as a sports reporter in local newspapers, Tom focussed on motorsport covering several national championships in the UK, including the BTCC.

After a period working as a freelance journalist, Tom moved to Australia in 2013 landing a job at leading Australian motorsport news outlet speedcafe.com, covering international motorsport events including F1, WRC and Supercars. Progressing to Editor in 2017, Tom was named Motorsport Australia Journalist of the Year for his work. He is also a two-time winner of Supercars Journalist of The Year (2017,2019) and a Supercars Championship Media Award winner in 2019.

Tom moved back to his native UK in 2020, firstly working in BTCC, before joining Autosport and motorsport.com in 2021.