[1] Austria's Matthias Walkner, riding a KTM, was the winner of the championship by 7 points ahead of Great Britain's Sam Sunderland, who also rode a KTM.
[2] Walkner won the season's fourth event, the Sardegna Rally Race, while Sunderland was the winner of the final event, the Rallye OiLibya du Maroc.
Third place in the championship, 11 points further behind Sunderland, went to the best-placed Honda rider, Paulo Gonçalves.
Defending champion Marc Coma finished fourth, after announcing his retirement[3] midway through the season – he was the only rider to win more than one event, winning the first two events at the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge and the Sealine Cross-Country Rally.
The Atacama Rally replaced Rallye dos Sertões for the 2015 season.