![]() Brice Tirabassi - 2008 Rally Catalunya | |
Personal information | |
---|---|
Nationality | ![]() |
Born | June 15, 1977 |
World Rally Championship record | |
Active years | 2005 – 2008 |
Teams | Subaru |
Rallies | 25 |
Championships | 0 |
Rally wins | 0 |
Podiums | 0 |
Stage wins | 0 |
Total points | 0 |
First rally | 1999 Tour de Corse |
Brice Tirabassi (born 15 June 1977) is a French rally driver. He won the Junior World Rally Championship in 2003.
Tirabassi won the French Rally Championship in 2002, before stepping up to the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) in 2003. He won three out of seven rounds to take the crown. In 2005, he competed in the Production World Rally Championship. In 2006, he competed in four rounds of the JWRC in a PH Sport-prepared Citroën C2, winning in Corsica. In 2008, he competed in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge in a Peugeot 207 S2000, with a best results of 7th on Rally Russia. Towards the end of the year, he was called up by the Subaru World Rally Team to drive one of their new Subaru Impreza WRCs on the tarmac WRC rounds of Catalunya and Corsica. He finished 10th in Catalunya, but retired with engine failure in Corsica. [1]
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Pos. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2003 | Brice Tirabassi | Renault Clio S1600 | MON 1 | TUR Ret | GRE 1 | FIN 2 | ITA Ret | ESP 1 | GBR Ret | 1st | 38 | ||
2006 | PH Sport | Citroën C2 S1600 | SWE | ESP 9 | FRA 1 | ARG | ITA Ret | GER Ret | FIN | TUR | GBR | 14th | 11 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | WDC | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | ![]() | Peugeot 207 S2000 | TUR Ret | POR Ret | BEL Ret | RUS 7 | POR Ret | CZE | ESP | ITA | SWI | CHI | 27th | 2 |
Petter Solberg is a Norwegian former professional rally and rallycross driver.
The FIA Junior WRC, also known as JWRC and previously known as Junior World Rally Championship, is an international rallying competition restricted to drivers under 29 years old. The championship currently consists of five select rallies of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) calendar. The category has been a stepping stone in the careers of Sebastien Loeb and Sébastien Ogier, Dani Sordo, Elfyn Evans, Craig Breen and Thierry Neuville.
Didier Auriol is a French former rally driver. Born in Montpellier and initially an ambulance driver, he competed in the World Rally Championship throughout the 1990s. He became World Rally Champion in 1994, the first driver from his country to do so. He was a factory candidate for Lancia, Toyota and Peugeot among others, before losing his seat at Škoda at the end of 2003. His sister Nadine was also involved in rallying as a co-driver, while his brother Gerrard was also a former rally driver.
Daniel "Dani" Sordo Castillo is a Spanish rally driver. He competes in the World Rally Championship for Hyundai Motorsport. He achieved his first WRC victory at the 2013 Rallye Deutschland.
Xavier "Xevi" Pons Puigdillers is a Spanish rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship from 2003 to 2014.
Guy Wilks is a British rally driver. Wilks started rallying at the age of 19, but currently drives for JRM in the FIA World Rallycross Championship. In 2011 Wilks drove for Peugeot UK in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. In 2012 he did not compete.
Per-Gunnar "P-G" Andersson is a Swedish rally driver. He is a two-time winner of the Junior World Rally Championship.
The Citroën Total World Rally Team was the Citroën factory backed entry into the World Rally Championship (WRC), run by Citroën Racing.
Patrik Sandell is a rally driver from Sweden. Sandell won the Swedish Junior Championship in 2004 and the Swedish Group N3 Championship in 2005. In 2006, he won the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) title driving for Renault. In 2008, Sandell contested both the JWRC and the Production World Rally Championship (PWRC).
The 2009 World Rally Championship was the 37th season of the FIA World Rally Championship. The season consisted of twelve rallies and began on 30 January, with Rally Ireland and ended with Rally GB on 25 October. Sébastien Loeb won the World Drivers' championship at Rally GB by one point from Mikko Hirvonen, taking his sixth consecutive crown. Citroën secured their fifth Manufacturers' title, Martin Prokop won the JWRC Drivers' championship and Armindo Araujo won the PWRC Drivers' championship.
Kris Meeke is a British professional rally driver from Northern Ireland, best known for competing in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). He was the 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge champion. His co-driver is Seb Marshall . He began his career as a Computer Aided Designer with M-Sport, at the headquarters of the Ford World Rally Team, before moving on to competing in the Peugeot Super 106 Cup in 2001.
Martin Prokop is a Czech rally driver. He won the Junior World Rally Championship in the 2009 season.
Alexandre Bengué is a French rally driver. Bengué was a factory driver for Škoda Motorsport in the World Rally Championship in 2005, before scoring two points finishes as a privateer in 2006.
Mirco Baldacci is a rally driver from San Marino, who scored two World Rally Championship points by finishing seventh on the 2006 Rally Australia.
Hans Weijs Jr. is a Dutch rally driver. He has won two rounds of the Junior World Rally Championship, finishing runner-up in the standings in 2010.
Michał Kościuszko is a Polish rally driver, who currently competes in the Production World Rally Championship (PWRC). He has previously won rounds of the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) and has competed in the Super 2000 World Rally Championship (SWRC).
Pierre Campana is a French rally driver from Corsica.
Pierre-Louis Loubet is a French rally driver. He is the 2019 World Rally Championship 2 Champion. He is the son of the 1989 European Rally Champion Yves Loubet.
The 2019 FIA Junior World Rally Championship was the eighteenth season of the Junior World Rally Championship, an auto racing championship recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, running in support of the World Rally Championship.
Maciej Szczepaniak is a Polish rally co-driver. In 2021 he became the WRC3 Co-Driver Champion as regular accomplice to driver Kajetan Kajetanowicz, who was himself beaten to the driver's championship title by Yohan Rossel. He has over one hundred WRC starts to his name in a career spanning over 25 years.