Martin Schanche | |
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![]() 1998: Martin Schanche (left) and his long time arch-rival Swede Kenneth Hansen | |
Nationality | ![]() |
Born | Trondheim | 1 January 1945
FIA ERX Division 1 (1997–2010) Championship | |
Years active | 1997–2001 |
Former teams | Martin Schanche Racing |
Starts | 46 |
Wins | 8 |
Podiums | 15 |
Best finish | 3rd in 1997, 1998 |
FIA ERX Division 2 (1982–1996) Championship | |
Years active | 1982–1996 |
Former teams | Martin Schanche Racing |
Starts | 134 |
Championships | 3 (1984, 1991, 1995) |
Wins | 51 |
Podiums | 76 |
FIA ERX TC Division Championship | |
Years active | 1979–1981 |
Former teams | Martin Schanche Racing |
Starts | 30 |
Championships | 2 (1979, 1981) |
Wins | 11 |
Podiums | 19 |
FIA European Rallycross Cup | |
Years active | 1977–1978 |
Former teams | Martin Schanche Racing |
Starts | 13 |
Championships | 1 (1978) |
Wins | 4 |
Podiums | 8 |
24 Hours of Le Mans career | |
Years | 1985–1988 |
Teams | Strandell Porsche, Team Lucky Strike Schanche Racing |
Best finish | 25th 1988 |
Class wins | 0 |
Martin Schanche (born 1 January 1945), nicknamed "Mister Rallycross", is a Norwegian former racing driver and politician.
Schanche was born in Trondheim, as the son of a German WW2 airplane pilot, who lost his life in a plane crash only three months later, and a Norwegian mother. The little boy grew up as an adopted child of a Norwegian couple at the tiny village of Leirpollskogen in Tana Municipality, the most northern part of Norway. Today he lives in Drøbak, together with his German-born wife Birgit and their daughter Melissa, a Norwegian Weightlifting Champion of the categories for females. Martin Schanche has also two other children from a former marriage, a daughter by the name of Elisabeth, and a son named Martin junior, well known in the Norwegian rallying scene.
He started his racing career rather late, only in 1972 when he was already 27 years old. Due to his attacking driving style he was quickly nicknamed "Villmannen fra Tana" ("The Wild Man from Tana") by his fellow Norwegian competitors. In 1975 he won a silver medal in the Norwegian Ice Racing Championships. Between 1976 and 2001 he competed in Rallycross, and became the FIA European champion of 1978, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1991 and 1995, as well as the vice-champion for another eight years. With his 74 main category wins Schanche is still yet the undisputed record holder concerning the amount of overall victories in rounds counting towards the FIA European Championships for Rallycross Drivers. Beside his rallycross campaigns and four World Sports Car seasons he was a starter of the 1980 Rally Sweden, the 1982 Rally of Great Britain, and failed to set a new track record in the 1984 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC), due to a flat right front tyre.
Since retiring from motorsport he has embarked on a second career as a politician in Frogn Municipality for the Progress Party. In 2003 he was the subject of a lot of nationwide attention after he slapped the chin of his political opponent Torgeir Micaelsen of the Labour Party at the end of a school debate in Drammen because Micaelsen, during the debate and in front of the public, had called him a coward. [1] That attention made him an often imitated character in Norwegian radio. As of 2006, he also has been working as a consultant for Prodrive on the work of Subarus WRC-cars. [2] While active in rallycross, Schanche himself engineered transmissions and differentials for his cars. His company later on manufactured parts and modified parts for rally- and rallycross-cars. [3] Nowadays Schanche is working on projects with concepts for new combustion-engines (see External links section below).
Schanche is holder of a helicopter license and has operated his own helicopters. In 2000 he was involved in a crash in which his daughter was slightly injured. [4]
Key: DSQ = excluded from whole event; DNS = did not start; NC = not classified for points; SUS = suspended; ( ) = dropped score, due to championship rules
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ERC | Points |
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1977 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort RS 1800 | AUT1 DNS | NED1 DNS | ITA DSQ | SWE1 DNS | FIN NC | BEL1 NC | SWE2 DNS | NED2 DNS | BEL2 DNS | GER 3 | AUT2 DNS | 18th | 12 |
1978 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort RS 1800 | AUT 6 | ITA 2 | SWE 2 | FIN NC | BEL 1 | NED 1 | FRA 1 | GBR 1 | GER 2 | 1st | 131 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ERX | Points |
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1979 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort RS 1800 | AUT 2 | ITA 3 | FIN 4 | SWE 5 | FRA 1 | BEL 1 | NED 4 | GBR 1 | GER 2 | 1st | 130 | ||
1980 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort RS 1800 | AUT 16 | ITA 1 | SWE 1 | FIN 3 | DEN 5 | BEL 3 | NED 1 | NOR 5 | GBR 3 | FRA 6 | GER 1 | 2nd | 138 |
1981 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort RS 1800 Turbo | AUT NC | SWE 2 | FIN 1 | DEN 2 | BEL 11 | NED 1 | FRA 1 | NOR 4 | GBR 1 | GER 10 | 1st | 121 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ERX | Points |
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1982 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort RS 1800 Turbo | AUT 7 | SWE 6 | FIN 3 | FRA 9 | BEL 6 | NED 1 | NOR 1 | GBR 1 | GER 3 | 2nd | 102 | |||
1983 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort RS 1800 Turbo | AUT 10 | SWE 1 | FIN NC | FRA 5 | BEL 3 | NED 1 | NOR 5 | GBR NC | 4th | 69 | ||||
1984 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort XR3 Turbo | AUT 5 | SWE 2 | FIN 1 | FRA 1 | BEL 1 | NED 1 | GBR NC | GER 1 | NOR 1 | 1st | 149 | |||
1985 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort XR3 Turbo | AUT 6 | FIN 6 | SWE 6 | FRA 2 | BEL 2 | NOR 1 | GBR 1 | GER 1 | NED 6 | 2nd | 138 | |||
1986 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort XR3 Turbo | AUT 7 | FIN 1 | FRA 1 | BEL 4 | NED 1 | NOR 1 | GBR NC | GER DNS | SWE 6 | 2nd | 114 | |||
1987 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford RS200 E2 | AUT NC | SWE DNS | FIN NC | ESP NC | FRA 12 | IRE DNS | BEL 1 | NED 1 | NOR 22 | GBR 1 | GER 4 | 6th | 78 | |
1988 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford RS200 E2 | ESP 5 | AUT 2 | SWE (DSQ) | FIN (7) | IRE 2 | FRA 6 | BEL 1 | NED (10) | NOR (6) | GBR 1 | GER 5 | 2nd | 109 | |
1989 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford RS200 E2 | ESP (3) | AUT 1 | SWE (6) | FiN 2 | IRE 2 | FRA 1 | BEL 2 | NED 2 | NOR (6) | GBR (9) | GER 2 | 2nd | 125 | |
1990 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford RS200 E2 | AUT (6) | SWE 4 | FIN 2 | IRE 3 | FRA (6) | BEL 1 | NED 1 | NOR (11) | GER 1 | GBR 1 | 2nd | 125 | ||
1991 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford RS200 E2 | POR 1 | AUT 1 | FIN 1 | FRA (2) | IRE (DSQ) | SWE (6) | BEL (6) | NED 1 | NOR 1 | GBR 1 | GER 1 | 1st | 140 | |
1992 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford RS200 E2 | GBR 1 | AUT DNS | POR 1 | FIN DSQ | SWE SUS | FRA SUS | IRE SUS | BEL NC | NED 5 | NOR 1 | GER 1 | 4th | 92 | |
1993 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort RS2000 T16 | AUT 3 | POR 6 | FRA (NC) | IRE 5 | SWE (NC) | FIN DNS | BEL 1 | NED 6 | NOR 4 | GER 3 | 5th | 90 | ||
1994 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort RS2000 T16 | AUT (16) | POR 2 | FRA 2 | IRE 3 | GBR 1 | SWE (5) | FIN 1 | BEL 4 | NED 1 | NOR (6) | GER (5) | 2nd | 122 | |
1995 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort RS2000 T16 | AUT (DSQ) | POR (6) | FRA 1 | SWE 2 | GBR 2 | IRE (3) | BEL 1 | NED 1 | NOR 1 | FIN 1 | CZE 1 | GER (6) | 1st | 154 |
1996 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort RS2000 T16 | AUT 7 | POR 7 | FRA 15 | SWE DNS | IRE DNS | GBR (NC) | BEL 9 | NED (NC) | NOR 4 | CZE 1 | GER 4 | 9th | 76 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ERX | Points |
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1997 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort RS2000 T16 | AUT 1 | FRA 1 | POR 5 | GBR DSQ | SWE (6) | FIN 1 | BEL (NC) | NOR 1 | CZE (6) | GER 3 | 3rd | 107 |
1998 | Martin Schanche Racing | Ford Escort RS2000 T16 | AUT 4 | POR (6) | FRA 3 | SWE 3 | GBR DNS | FIN 1 | BEL 2 | NOR (5) | GER 1 | CZE 4 | 3rd | 113 |
1999 | Martin Schanche Racing | Opel Astra G T16 [ broken anchor ] | CZE DNS | FRA (NC) | POR 7 | SWE 15 | FIN 11 | BEL 12 | NED 10 | NOR 9 | GER NC | 11th | 38 | |
2000 | Martin Schanche Racing | Opel Astra G T16 [ broken anchor ] | POR 5 | FRA 5 | CZE (NC) | SWE 7 | BEL (NC) | NED 6 | NOR 1 | POL 4 | GER 5 | 5th | 90 | |
2001 | Martin Schanche Racing | Opel Astra G T16 [ broken anchor ] | FRA (5) | POR 2 | AUT (6) | CZE 1 | SWE 4 | BEL 2 | NED 5 | NOR 3 | POL (7) | GER (10) | 4th | 94 |
*Division 2 was rebranded as Division 1 in 1997.
Year | Class | No | Tyres | Car | Team | Co-Drivers | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
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1985 | C2 | 97 | A | Strandell 85 Porsche Type-934 3.3 L Turbo Flat-6 | ![]() | ![]() | - | DNS | DNS |
1986 | C2 | 89 | G | Argo JM19 Zakspeed 1.8L Turbo I4 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | 1 | DNF | DNF |
1987 | C2 | 117 | G | Argo JM19B Zakspeed 1.8L Turbo I4 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | 5 | DNF | DNF |
1988 | C1 | 117 | G | Argo JM19C Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | 278 | 25 | 16 |
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