Albert Llovera

Albert Llovera

Llovera during 2011 Rally Catalunya.
Personal information
Nationality	Andorran
Full name	Albert Llovera Massana
Born	(1966-09-11) 11 September 1966 (age 55)
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2001 – 2002, 2005 – 2006, 2008 – 2012
Co-driver	Diego Vallejo
Rallies	29
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	0
Total points	0
First rally	2001 Rally Catalunya
Last rally	2012 Rally Catalunya
Last updated on: 20 July 2018.

Albert Llovera Massana ^{[lower-alpha 1]} (born 11 September 1966) is a rally driver and former alpine skier from Andorra. He became the youngest athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics in 1984 at the age of 17. ^[1] A serious accident in 1985 left him paralysed from the waist down. He has since taken up rallying, using cars with specially adapted hand controls. He is currently competing in the Super 2000 World Rally Championship.

Career

Llovera during 2010 Rally Finland.

At the age of 17, Llovera became the youngest ever athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics when he represented Andorra at the 1984 games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. ^[2] In the following year, 1985, whilst competing in the European Ski Cup, also in Sarajevo, he suffered a serious accident which left him using a wheelchair with paraplegia beginning at lower back level.

He turned to motorsport, first competing on quad bikes and then starting in rallying. In 1989 he won the Peugeot Rally Cup in Andorra. In 2001, with the support of Fiat, he began competing in the Junior World Rally Championship in a Fiat Punto S1600. He continued in the championship in 2002.

After competing in Spain along with selected WRC appearances he returned full-time to the world stage in 2010 to contest the Super 2000 World Rally Championship in a Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000. He finished fifth in class on his first event Rally Mexico. He scored a best overall result of 17th on Rally Catalunya, which was not a round of the SWRC. ^[3]

He continued in the SWRC in 2011, finishing fourth in the category in Jordan.

In 2020 he will be competing the Dakar rally in an Iveco truck from the Dutch Team de Rooy.

Complete WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2001	Pronto Racing	Fiat Punto S1600	MON	SWE	POR	ESP Ret	ARG	CYP	GRE Ret	KEN	FIN 79	NZL	ITA Ret	FRA 39	AUS	GBR Ret			NC	0
2002	Albert Llovera	Fiat Punto S1600	MON Ret	SWE	FRA	ESP 33	CYP	ARG	GRE Ret	KEN	FIN	GER Ret	ITA 33	NZL	AUS	GBR			NC	0
2005	Albert Llovera	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII	MON	SWE	MEX	NZL	ITA	CYP	TUR	GRE	ARG	FIN 32	GER	GBR	JPN	FRA	ESP	AUS	NC	0
2006	Albert Llovera	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII	MON	SWE	MEX	ESP 36	FRA	ARG	ITA	GRE	GER	FIN 54	JPN	CYP	TUR	AUS	NZL	GBR	NC	0
2008	Albert Llovera	Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	JOR	ITA	GRE	TUR	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP Ret	FRA	JPN	GBR		NC	0
2009	PCR Sport	Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000	IRE	NOR	CYP	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	POL	FIN	AUS	ESP 42	GBR					NC	0
2010	Albert Llovera	Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000	SWE	MEX 22	JOR	TUR	NZL Ret	POR 41	BUL	FIN Ret	GER 35	JPN	FRA 47	ESP 17	GBR				NC	0
2011	Albert Llovera	Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR 17	ITA Ret	ARG	GRE 24	FIN Ret	GER Ret	AUS	FRA DNS	ESP 40	GBR				NC	0
2012	PCR Sport	Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	GER	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP Ret				NC	0

JWRC Results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	JWRC	Points
2001	Pronto Racing	Fiat Punto S1600	ESP Ret	GRE Ret	FIN 7	ITA Ret	FRA 13	GBR Ret	NC	0
2002	Albert Llovera	Fiat Punto S1600	MON Ret	ESP 12	GRE Ret	GER Ret	ITA 16	GBR	NC	0

SWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	SWRC	Points
2010	Albert Llovera	Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000	SWE	MEX 5	JOR	NZL Ret	POR 10	FIN Ret	GER 8	JPN	FRA 9	GBR	13th	17
2011	Albert Llovera	Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000	MEX	JOR 4	ITA Ret	GRE 9	FIN Ret	GER Ret	FRA	ESP 8			10th	18
2012	PCR Sport	Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000	MON	SWE	POR	NZL	FIN	GBR	FRA	ESP Ret			NC	0

Notes

1. This name uses Catalan naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Lloveraand the second or maternal family name is Massana.

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Albert Llovera". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2018. Full name: Albert Llovera Massana
2. "Driver". albertllovera.com. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
3. "Driver profile - Albert Llovera". eWRC-results.com. eWRC.cz. Retrieved 20 July 2011.

External links

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• Albert Llovera at Olympedia