Officials have announced an enlarged 2019 FIA World Rally Championship calendar, which features a visit to Chile, in Paris today.

The 14-round calendar retains all 13 rallies from 2018 and gives an increasingly global look to one of the world’s most prestigious motorsport series for production-based cars, with five events outside Europe.

Chile becomes the 32nd country to host the WRC since the championship was launched in 1973. Event representatives celebrated its inclusion as live news transmissions were broadcast to the country from the French capital.

The calendar is the largest since 2008 and was approved by the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council.As is traditional, the 2019 championship opens on the ice-covered Alpine roads of Rallye Monte-Carlo on January 24–27. It again closes on the gravel tracks of Rally Australia on November 14–17, the event where 2018’s title fight is likely to come to a thrilling conclusion next month.

ROUND / RALLY / DATE
1. Monte-Carlo / January 24 - 27
2. Sweden / February 14 - 17
3. Mexico / March 7 - 10
4. France / March 28 - 31
5. Argentina / April 25 - 28
6. Chile / May 9 - 12
7. Portugal / May 30 - June 2
8. Italy / June 13 - 16
9. Finland / August 1 - 4
10. Germany* / August 22 - 25
11. Turkey / September 12 - 15
12. Great Britain* / October 3 - 6
13. Spain* / October 24 - 27
14. Australia* / November 14 - 17
*subject to approval