Fabrizia Pons | |
Nationality: | Italian |
Birth Place: | Turin, Italy |
Years: | 1976–1984, 1986, 1994, 1996–1998 |
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.
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.
Pons has two children and is originally from Turin.[3]