FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies 2020 Calendar

Hosted by FIA President Jean Todt and FIA Deputy President for Sport, Graham Stoker, the World Motor Sport Council gathered on October 4 in Cologne for its third meeting of 2019 at the Permanent Exhibition of the Michael Schumacher Private Collection at Motorworld. 
On this meeting many important decisions were taken, including the callendar for the 2020 FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies.   Next year's season will have 5 races and start in Qatar just 4 weeks after the 2020 Dakar Rally come to an end in Saudi Arabia.

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A new points system will be introduced in 2020 to ensure that competitors who have retired can restart and remain in contention on subsequent legs. In addition to the points currently awarded for first to 10th in the overall and category classifications, for each championship and cup points will also be awarded to the fastest three crews on each leg on a scale of 3, 2 and 1 point respectively.
 
The homologation regulations for safety cages in T3S (SSV Series) vehicles will be modified to allow more freedom on the cage design, subject to compulsory static load testing on the chassis with the safety cage unit. This should help competitors to adapt cars and avoid a complete redesign of the series chassis.
 
The number of days and distances for Cross Country events have been modified. A Marathon Rally must not exceed 15 days and have a minimum distance of 2500kms of selective sections. Cross Country Rallies must not run over more than seven days with five days of competition and a minimum of 1200kms of selective sections, while Bajas will now have a total distance for selective sections of at least 350kms. None of the events must have selective sections exceeding 600 kilometres.

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Events are open to vehicles of a maximum gross weight of up to 3500kg for Groups T1, T2, and T3, and greater than 3500kg for Group T4, in due possession of a registration certificate. The vehicles shall be split up into the following categories:

Group T1 : Prototypes Cross-Country Vehicles
The organiser must provide for a two-wheel drive category within Group T1.

Group T2 : Series Production Cross-Country Vehicles
Vehicles homologated in the Cross-country Group.

Group T3 : Improved Cross-Country Vehicles - Lightweight.
Group T4 : Series Cross-Country Trucks (at the organisers' discretion except for Bajas).
There are two cylinder classes: Class 1 for trucks fitted with an engine with a nominal cylinder capacity of 10 000 cc or over. Class 2 for trucks fitted with an engine with a nomial cylinder capacity of less than 10 000cc.  There will be a separate classification for T4 trucks.

The FIA organises the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies which includes the following awards:

World Cups for Drivers, for Co-Drivers and for Teams.
FIA cups for T2 Drivers and for T2 Teams.
FIA cups for T3 Drivers and T3 Teams.

Source FIA