Teams and Drivers
For The 2009 season, the championship has two manufacturer teams (Citroën Total World Rally Team and BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team) and three semi-factory teams (Stobart VK M-Sport Ford, Munchi's Ford and the Citroën Junior Team) that will be eligible for the manufacturers' championship.
Suzuki and Subaru pulled out of the WRC at the end of the 2008 championship, both citing the economic downturn currently affecting the automotive industry for their withdrawal.
| Manufacturer entries | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Constructor | Car | Tyre | No | Drivers | Co-drivers | Rounds |
| Citroën Total World Rally Team | Citroën | C4 WRC | P | 1 | Sébastien Loeb | Daniel Elena | All |
| 2 | Daniel Sordo | Marc Marti | All | ||||
| BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team | Ford | Focus RS WRC 08/09 | P | 3 | Mikko Hirvonen | Jarmo Lehtinen | All |
| 4 | Jari-Matti Latvala | Miikka Anttila | All | ||||
| 15 | Khalid Al Qassimi | Michael Orr | 1, 3–4, 6–7, 9–12 | ||||
| Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team | Ford | Focus RS WRC 08 | P | 5 | Urmo Aava | Kuldar Sikk | 1–2 |
| Matthew Wilson | Scott Martin | 3–12 | |||||
| 6 | Henning Solberg | Cato Menkerud | All | ||||
| 15 | Krzysztof Holowczyc | Lukasz Kurzeja | 8 | ||||
| 16 | Matthew Wilson | Scott Martin | 1–2 | ||||
| 17 | Steve Perez | Paul Spooner | 12 | ||||
| Citroën Junior Team | Citroën | C4 WRC | P | 7 | Chris Atkinson | Stéphane Prévot | 1 |
| Evgeny Novikov | Dale Moscatt | 2–4, 6–9 | |||||
| Stéphane Prévot | 11–12 | ||||||
| 8 | Conrad Rautenbach | Daniel Barritt | All | ||||
| 11 | Petter Solberg | Phil Mills | 12 | ||||
| 12 | Sébastien Ogier | Julien Ingrassia | All | ||||
| 16 | Aaron Burkart | Michael Kölbach | 12 | ||||
| Munchi's Ford World Rally Team | Ford | Focus RS WRC 08 | P | 9 | Federico Villagra | Jorge Perez Companc | 3, 5–7, 9–11 |
| Jose Diaz | 4 | ||||||
| 10 | Matti Rantanen | Mikko Lukka | 9 | ||||
| Paul Bird | Ian Windress | 11 | |||||
| 72 | Mattias Therman | Janne Perälä | 9 | ||||
| Major Entries Not Registered as Manufacturers | |||||||
| Petter Solberg World Rally Team | Citroën | Xsara WRC | P | 11 | Petter Solberg | Phil Mills | 2–9 |
| C4 WRC | 11 | ||||||
| Adapta World Rally Team | Subaru | Impreza WRC 2008 | P | 14 | Mads Østberg | Ole Kristian Unnerud | 2, 4, 6–7 |
| Veronica Engan | 8 | ||||||
| Jonas Andersson | 9, 12 | ||||||
| 20 | Anders Grøndal | Maria Andersson | 2 | ||||
| Prodrive | P | 15 | Marcus Grönholm | Timo Rautiainen | 4 | ||
| Ketomaa World Rally Team | Impreza WRC 2007 | P | 16 | Jari Ketomaa | Mika Stenberg | 9 | |
| Andreas Mikkelsen | Škoda | Fabia WRC | P | 16 | Andreas Mikkelsen | Ola Fløne | 8 |
| P-G Andersson Rallying | P | 19 | Per-Gunnar Andersson | Anders Fredriksson | 2 | ||
| Van Merksteijn Motorsport | Ford | Focus RS WRC 06/07 | P | 17 | Peter Van Merksteijn, Jr. | Eddy Chevaillier | 2, 4 |
| 18 | Peter Van Merksteijn, Sr. | Erwin Mombaerts | 2 | ||||
| Hans van Goor | 4 | ||||||
| Ipatec Racing | Focus RS WRC 06 | P | 66 | Dennis Kuipers | Kees Hagman | 4, 12 | |
| 68 | René Kuipers | Erwin Berkhof | 4 | ||||
| Erwin Mombaerts | 12 | ||||||
| Bozian Racing | Peugeot | 307 WRC | P | 66 | Dany Snobeck | Gilles Mondesir | 11 |
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