A fifth win of the season at Rally Chile has earned Oliver Solberg the title of 2025 WRC2 champion
Photography by Toyota
Words by Luke Barry
Oliver Solberg and Elliott Edmondson have claimed the WRC2 title by winning Rally Chile – their fifth victory of the campaign.
The Swede’s route to the championship was simplified when both Yohan Rossel and Gus Greensmith retired on Friday with separate engine-related problems, but he was already doing enough anyway with a win enough to secure Solberg the championship on his final points-scoring opportunity.
He eventually beat Nikolay Gryazin by 40.4 seconds.
“What should I say? Unbelievable,” Solberg said.
“I don’t know what to feel, it’s kind of overwhelming. It’s just a very big relief. Last year we had a bit of bad luck, we should have won it definitely. This year finally has been just an incredible year with the team and Toyota taking me onboard with a fantastic car. I’m very, very happy – thank you to everybody.”
Solberg has come close to winning the WRC2 title in both 2023 and 2024, but has looked like a champion in-waiting ever since stepping into a Toyota GR Yaris Rally2.
Although he crashed out of Rally Finland, the only other points-scoring rally he didn’t win was Safari Rally Kenya – which he was leading before getting stuck in a deep section of fech fech that was likely to swallow the leading Rally2 car on the road (which Solberg was).
Solberg also took his maiden World Rally Championship victory in a one-off chance in a Rally1 car with Toyota.
He is expected to complete the remaining three rounds of the 2025 season in his Rally2 car.
Words:Luke Barry
Tags: Oliver Solberg, Rally Chile, Rally Chile 2025, WRC, WRC 2025, WRC2, WRC2 2025
Publish Date September 14, 2025 DirtFish
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