# 2016 NACAM Rally Championship

The 2016 NACAM Rally Championship was the ninth season of the NACAM Rally Championship. This championship was the FIA regional rally championship for the North America and Central America (NACAM) region. The season began 8 April in Oaxaca, Mexico, and ended 22 October in Costa Rica, after five events.
Rallies in Panama and Jamaica were dropped from the championship in favour of a second event in Costa Rica, the Rally La Ponderosa and for the first time, a rally in Canada, the Rallye Baie-des-Chaleurs in New Richmond, Quebec. Apart from this new event, the other four rallies were single day events.
Defending champion Ricardo Triviño won his seventh NACAM championship. Triviño won the first four events of the series. Season-long rival Francisco Name Jr. was second in those same events and won the final rally of the year but was still 24 points behind Triviño. They were the only two drivers to pursue the entire championship. Third in the championship, Miguel Medina drove only the first two events in Mexico finishing third in both.

## Event calendar and results

The 2016 NACAM Rally Championship was as follows:
| Round | Rally name | Podium finishers | Podium finishers | Podium finishers | Podium finishers | Statistics | Statistics | Statistics | Statistics |
| Round | Rally name | Rank | Driver | Car | Time | Stages | Length | Starters | Finishers |
| 1 | Rally Montañas Sierra Fria Aguascalientes (8–9 April) | 1 | Ricardo Triviño | Citroën DS3 R5 | 1:00:11.8 | 8 | 108.30 km | 23 | 16 |
| 1 | Rally Montañas Sierra Fria Aguascalientes (8–9 April) | 2 | Emilio Velázquez | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX | 1:00:59.8 | 8 | 108.30 km | 23 | 16 |
| 1 | Rally Montañas Sierra Fria Aguascalientes (8–9 April) | 3 | Francisco Name Jr. | Citroën DS3 R3T | 1:01:37.3 | 8 | 108.30 km | 23 | 16 |
| 2 | RAC 1000 Rally (6–7 May) | 1 | Ricardo Triviño | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X | 1:10:32.4 | 8 | 104.06 km | 24 | 16 |
| 2 | RAC 1000 Rally (6–7 May) | 2 | Benito Guerra jr. | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X | 1:12:05.8 | 8 | 104.06 km | 24 | 16 |
| 2 | RAC 1000 Rally (6–7 May) | 3 | Francisco Name Jr. | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX | 1:13:02.4 | 8 | 104.06 km | 24 | 16 |
| 3 | Rallye Baie-des-Chaleurs (1–3 July) | 1 | Joël Levac | Mini John Cooper Works WRC | 2:09:59.5 | 14 | 197.87 km | 34 | 22 |
| 3 | Rallye Baie-des-Chaleurs (1–3 July) | 2 | André Leblanc | Subaru Impreza WRX STi | 2:11:31.8 | 14 | 197.87 km | 34 | 22 |
| 3 | Rallye Baie-des-Chaleurs (1–3 July) | 3 | Maxime Labrie | Subaru Impreza WRX STi | 2:13:45.1 | 14 | 197.87 km | 34 | 22 |
| 4 | Rally Costa del Pacifico (27 August) | 1 | Ricardo Triviño | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X | 1:06:21.2 | 8 | 96.80 km | 9 | 8 |
| 4 | Rally Costa del Pacifico (27 August) | 2 | Francisco Name Jr. | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX | 1:06:42.7 | 8 | 96.80 km | 9 | 8 |
| 4 | Rally Costa del Pacifico (27 August) | 3 | Gerardo Moreno | Peugeot 206 | 1:13:22.3 | 8 | 96.80 km | 9 | 8 |
| 5 | Rally La Ponderosa (22 October) | 1 | Francisco Name Jr. | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X | 56:09.5 | 8 | 96.80 km | 10 | 8 |
| 5 | Rally La Ponderosa (22 October) | 2 | Ricardo Triviño | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X | 56:46.2 | 8 | 96.80 km | 10 | 8 |
| 5 | Rally La Ponderosa (22 October) | 3 | Julián Jaramillo | Subaru Impreza STi N16 | 1:00:22.9 | 8 | 96.80 km | 10 | 8 |

## Championship standings

The 2016 NACAM Rally Championship points are as follows:
| Pos. | Driver | Vehicle | MON | 1000 | BdC | CdP | PON | Total |
| 1 | Ricardo Triviño | Citroën DS3 R5 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 132 |
| 2 | Francisco Name Jr. | Citroën DS3 R3T Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 108 |
| 3 | Miguel Medina | Ford Fiesta R2 | 3 | 3 | | | | 32 |
| 4 | Andrés Molina | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX | | | | 3 | 4 | 28 |
| 5 | Julián Jaramillo | Subaru Impreza STi N16 | | | | | 3 | 16 |
| 6 | Jose Alexander Gelvez | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX | 4 | | | | | 12 |
Key :
| Colour | Result |
| Gold | Winner |
| Silver | 2nd place |
| Bronze | 3rd place |
| Green | Points finish |
| Blue | Non-points finish |
| Blue | Non-classified finish (NC) |
| Purple | Did not finish (Ret) |
| Black | Excluded (EX) |
| Black | Disqualified (DSQ) |
| White | Did not start (DNS) |
| White | Cancelled (C) |
| Blank | Withdrew entry from the event (WD) |