WRC Co-driver wins by country #2018
You asked, we delivered, here is a new version of WRC co-driver wins by country, updated after Rally Sardegna 2018, with the next update to follow after Australia (the end of season 2018).
What has changed?
Well most notable change is Belgium, where Nicolas Gilsoul (co-driver of Thierry Neuville) took Belgium from 6–10 category by winning Poland and Australia in season 2017 and Sweden, Portugal and Sardinia this season and they are now leading the championship by 27 points before the last 6 rallies: Finland, Germany, Turkey, Wales, Catalunya and Australia.
There are also a few changes in other countries, if you remembered our previous graphic, you will spot them easily.
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Let’s start with one win, which currently goes to 7 countries: Argentina (Jorge del Buono), USA (Sergio Cresto), Canada (Doug Woods), South Africa (Stuart Pegg), Portugal (Edgar Fortes), Ivory Coast (Daniel le Saux) and New Zealand (John Kennard).
From two to five, there is Austria — 2 (Ferdinand Hinterleitner and Jorg Pattermann) and Norway — 3 (Ola Floene, 2x Anders Jæger) and newly Estonia — 3 (Martin Järveoja).
In the margin of six to ten we now have Ireland — 6 wins (Ronan McNamee and 5x Paul Nagle) and Kenya (Mike Doughty, David Doig, Lofty Drews and David Williamson ) with 8 wins.
In the range from 11–20 there is now Belgium with 13 (3 x Christian Delferrier, 9 x Nicolas Gilsoul, Sven Smeets) and Germany with 15 (13 by Christian Geistdorfer, one each by Jochen Berger and Peter Diekmann).
Next one fits in the margin from 21–30, with 28 wins there is Spain (23 by Luis Moya, 3 By Marc Marti Moreno, 1 Carlos del Barrio Corral).
From 31–40 there is Italy, with 34 (16 by Tiziano Siviero, 5 Fabrizia Pons, 4 Silvio Maiga, 3 Mario Mannucci, Bernacchini, Cassina, Evangelisti, Farnocchia, Mannini, Rosetti.)
Range between 41 and 50 wins is still empty, while next one is Sweden with 56 wins (Arne Hertz, Hans Thorszelius, Bjorn Cederberg, Staffan Parmander, Lars Backman, Claes Billstam, Per Carlsson,Claes-Goran Andersson, Jonas Andersson, Bruno Berglund, Hans Sylvan).
With 78 wins by himself for Principality of Monaco, 9-times World Rally Co-driver Champion, Daniel Elena!
The final three countries are not a hard guess for any rally fan.
Third one from the top is Great Britain with 82 wins, which increased by 1 since last time, thanks to the victory of Daniel Barritt (driver Elfyn Evans) in Wales 2017.
(Nicky Grist, Philip Mills, Robert Reid, Derek Ringer, Terry Harryman, Fred Gallagher, Michael Park, Henry Liddon, David Richards, John Meadows, John Davenport, Paul White and Neil Wilson, Daniel Barritt).
Second best, just above 100 is France, who has now 106 steps (+4, all Ingrassia) on top of the podium (Julien Ingrassia tops the list with 43, Bernard Occelli, Alain Mahe, Herve Panizzi, Denis Giraudet, Daniel Grataloup, Jean Todt, Jean-Marc Andrie, Jean-Paul Chiaroni, Jean-Francois Fauchille, Michel Gamet, Jacques Jaubert, Michele Petit, Gilles Thimonier, Michel Vial, Vincent Laverne, Jean-Claude Lefebvre, Jean-Jacques Lenne, Claude Papin).
And with the massive margin of 136 wins, top of the co-driver list goes to Finland, lead increased by 1 due to Janne Ferm win (driver Esapekka Lappi) in Finland 2017.
(Timo Rautiainen,Seppo Harjanne, Ilkka Kivimaki, Miikka Anttila, Jarmo Lehtinen, Juha Piironen, Risto Mannisenmaki, Juha Repo, Atso Aho, Kaj Lindstrom, Jaakko Markkula, Risto Pietilainen, and Martti Tiukkanen, Janne Ferm).
So here they are, all countries with co-drivers who have won World Rally Championship rally. Tell us what you think in comments below, which one will be the next one added to this list? Will France ever catch Finland? Also feel free to share this article as well as our map, which you can freely use on your blogs with attribution to our website.
If you want to look further in the numbers of each individual stated here, visit Juwra.com stats.
This post was originally posted on racemarket.net blog.
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