The Championship was open to cars complying with R4, R5, and Super 2000 regulations.
The Championship was composed of thirteen rallies, and drivers and teams had to nominate a maximum of seven events.
The Qatari driver decided to focus on the 2016 Dakar Rally and on training for the 2016 Summer Olympics, in attempt to win a medal in the Men's Skeet event.
[3] The season was scheduled to expand with one rally in comparison to the 2015 championship, contested over fourteen rounds in Europe, the Americas, Oceania and Asia,[4][5] but the Chinese round was ultimately cancelled.
Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers.