Fabrizia Pons Explained

Fabrizia Pons
Nationality: Italian
Birth Place:Turin, Italy
Years:19761984, 1986, 1994, 19961998
Races:70
Championships:0
Wins:5
Podiums:17
Stagewins:223
First Race:1976 Rallye Sanremo
First Win:1981 Rallye Sanremo
Last Win:1997 Rally Monte Carlo
Last Race:1998 Wales Rally GB

Fabrizia Pons (born 26 June 1955) is an Italian rally co-driver best known for her partnership with Michèle Mouton.

Biography

The pair won four rallies with the Rallye Sanremo in 1981 and a further three to finish second in the 1982 championship. Pons is one of two people to have achieved world championship points as a driver and co-driver, having finished ninth overall in the 1978 Sanremo Rally before switching to co-driving. Pons is a recipient of the Halda Trophy for 1982, the highest honor for a co-driver.[1] [2]

From 2003 to 2006, she was the co-driver to German Dakar Rally racer Jutta Kleinschmidt.

Personal life

Pons has two children and is originally from Turin.[3]

WRC victories

YearRallyDriverCar
1.1981 Rallye Sanremo Michèle MoutonAudi Quattro
2.1982 Rally de Portugal Michèle MoutonAudi Quattro
3. Acropolis Rally Michèle MoutonAudi Quattro
4. Rally of Brazil Michèle MoutonAudi Quattro
5.1997 Monte Carlo Rally Piero LiattiSubaru Impreza WRC

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fabrizia Pons – Art Vatanen Rally. Ari Vatanen Rally.
  2. Web site: Race4Change: Rallying for the Economic Empowerment of Women. Race4Change. 2012-06-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20170930175519/http://www.race4change.org/team/rally-drivers-safari/fabrizia-pons. 2017-09-30. dead.
  3. Web site: Fabrizia Pons . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071114065931/http://www.jutta-kleinschmidt.de/e/aktuell/2002/02_news_25.html . 2007-11-14 .