Björn Waldegård ( Swede. Björn Waldegård ; November 12, 1943 - August 29, 2014 ) - Swedish car driver. Champion of the 1970 Manufacturers Cup as part of the Porsche team. Winner of the first 1979 World Rally Championship among pilots in 1979 .
Bjorn Waldegord | |
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 Bjorn Valdegord and his navigator in 1984. | |
| Date of Birth | November 12, 1943 |
| Place of Birth | Sweden |
| Date of death | August 29, 2014 (aged 70) |
| Place of death | |
| Citizenship |  Sweden |
| World Rally Championship | |
| Years in the rally | 1973-1992 |
| Teams | Porsche , Mercedes-Benz , Ford , Lancia , Toyota |
| Stages | 95 |
| Championship titles | 1 - 1979 |
| Wins | sixteen |
| Catwalks | 35 |
| Won Dopov | 217 |
| Points | 428 |
| First rally | 1973  Monte Carlo Rally |
| First victory | 1975 Rally Sweden |
In Sweden, Björn is nicknamed “Walle”. He made his rally debut in 1962 on a 1200 Volkswagen, and won the Monte Carlo Rally in 1969 and 1970 on the Porsche 911. He participated in the World Rally Championship from 1972 (the year the championship was created) to 1992. At WRC, he won 16 stages.
Career
Björn’s career spans four decades, he debuted in 1962 and, after winning the Swedish rally championship in 1967 and the 68th, begins to perform at the highest level until 1992. Only a severe fracture in his hand on the 1992 Safari Rally forced him to end his career. His first international victory, at the wheel of a Porsche 911, was won at the Monte Carlo Rally 1968, the last at the Toyota Rally at the 1990 Safari Rally. This victory brought him the title of the oldest age winner of the World Cup, which he has saved to this day.
In the mid-1970s, Waldegord took part in the European Championship in the Rally Cross class at the Porsche Carrera RSR. The best result was second place after Franz Wurz, father of Alexander Wurz in 1974. He started his career in the World Rally Championship at the wheel of Lancia , which he left after a scandal caused by the fact that he was assigned the second pilot's place in the team. After joining the Ford team at the wheel, Ford Escort RS won three of the world's most challenging rallies in 1977: the Safari Rally (Kenya), the Acropolis Rally (Greece) and the UK Rally (Ireland). In 1979, he won the World Rally Championship by defeating Hannah Mikkola in the final round of the Ivory Coast Rally. In September 2008, Bjorn Valdegord took part in the Colin MacRae Rally, a race in memory of Colin MacRae who died in 2007. In this race, he spoke at the Porsche 911.
Victory in International Rally
No. Stage Season Navigator Car one Rally Sweden 1968 Lars Hemler Porsche 911 2 Rally Sweden 1969 Lars Hemler Porsche 911 3 Monte Carlo Rally 1969 Lars Hemler Porsche 911 four Rally Sweden 1970 Lars Hemler Porsche 911 five Monte Carlo Rally 1970 Lars Hemler Porsche 911 6 Rally Austria 1970 Lars Hemler Porsche 911
WRC Wins
# Stage Season Navigator Car one Rally Sweden 1975 Hans Torzelius Lancia stratos hf 2 Rally San Remo 1975 Hans Torzelius Lancia stratos hf 3 Rally San Remo 1976 Hans Torzelius Lancia stratos hf four Rally Safari 1977 Hans Torzelius Ford Escort RS1800 five Rally Acropolis 1977 Hans Torzelius Ford Escort RS1800 6 Rally UK 1977 Hans Torzelius Ford Escort RS1800 7 Rally Sweden 1979 Hans Torzelius Ford Escort RS1800 eight Rally Acropolis 1979 Hans Torzelius Ford Escort RS1800 9 Rally Canada 1979 Hans Torzelius Ford Escort RS1800 ten Ivory Coast Rally 1980 Hans Torzelius Mercedes 500 SLC eleven Rally New Zealand 1982 Hans Torzelius Toyota Celica 2000GT 12 Ivory Coast Rally 1983 Hans Torzelius Toyota Celica TCT 13 Rally Safari 1984 Hans Torzelius Toyota Celica TCT 14 Rally Safari 1986 Fred gallagher Toyota Celica TCT 15 Ivory Coast Rally 1986 Fred gallagher Toyota Celica TCT sixteen Rally Safari 1990 Fred gallagher Toyota Celica GT-Four
Awards and Achievements
Notes
- ↑ Freebase data upload - Google .