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Rally Saudi Arabia 2025 counts for:
2025 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2025 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2025 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers/Co-drivers)
2025 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Drivers/Co-drivers)
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| 668th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 14 of 14 |
| Official name: | Rally Saudi Arabia |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Date: | from Wednesday 26-Nov-2025 to Saturday 29-Nov-2025 |
| Rally HQ: | Jeddah, Mecca province; Saudi Arabia |
| Clerk of the Course: | Samer Hijazi |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 41 | |
| Starters: | 39 | |
| Finishers: | 32 | (82.1% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 17 | |
| Shortest: | 5.22 | km | (SS1 Jameel Motorsport Super Special 1) |
| Longest: | 33.28 | km | (SS16 Asfan) |
| Slowest: | 70.58 | km/h | (SS4 Khulais 1) |
| Fastest: | 127.33 | km/h | (SS16 Asfan) |
| Planned stage distance: | 312.26 | km | (25.6% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 312.26 | km | (25.6% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 909.19 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,221.45 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 22nd win and 74th podium for Thierry Neuville. |
| Second place was 9th podium for Adrien Fourmaux. |
| Third place was 115th podium for Sebastien Ogier. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 34th win and 1-2 win were 144th to 145th podiums for Hyundai. |
| | Third place was 289th podium for Toyota. |
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Many other drivers led and won stages but fell aside with punctures, which in the end netted win for Neuville (pictured) without a single stage win. Team mate Fourmaux had one minute penalty and lost win by 54 seconds, a bitter pill to swallow especially given that penalty was for early check-in to service TC.
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Ogier (pictured) started the rally three points behind Evans' for the drivers' title. As Evans suffered from sweeping the road, Ogier had an advantage and drove safely through roads where punctures were aplenty. He himself suffered two of those but survived ahead of Evans and outscored Welshman to secure his ninth record equalling title.
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Initially, road sweeping elevated three young stars to the front, leading in turns. Hyundai's Fourmaux, Toyota's Pajari and most surprisingly of all, M-Sport's Sesks (pictured). He drove with gusto and suffered no less than four punctures, last two being double puncture on same stage which led to his ultimate retirement.
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Related links
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Rally Japan 2025
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Monte Carlo 2026
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