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Carlos
Sainz
Spain
World Rally Champion
(1990, 1992)
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| 12
April 1962 |
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| 1987 |
- wins Spanish
Rally Championship with Ford
- WRC debut
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| 1988 |
- wins Spanish
Rally Championship
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| 1989 |
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| 1990 |
- first WRC
win - Acropolis Rally
- wins World
Rally Championship with Toyota Celica GT4
- 3 wins
- wins Asia
Pacific Rally Championship
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| 1991 |
- Toyota WRC;
5 wins
- world rally
championship runner-up
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| 1992 |
- wins 2nd
World Rally Championship with Toyota Celica GTFour
- 4 wins
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| 1993 |
- joins
Lancia WRC
- finished
8th overall
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| 1994 |
- joins
Subaru WRC
- world rally
championship runner-up
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| 1995 |
- Subaru WRC
- world rally
championship runner-up
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| 1996 |
- joins
Ford WRC
- finished
3rd overall
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| 1997 |
- Ford WRC
- finished
3rd overall
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| 1998 |
- joins
Toyota
- world rally
championship runner-up to Makinen
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| 1999 |
- Toyota WRC
- finished
5th overall
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| 2000 |
- joins
Ford WRC
- 1 win
- finished
3rd overall
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| 2001 |
- 2nd year
with Ford ; driving Ford Focus WRC
- 5 podiums
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| 2002 |
- 3rd year
with Ford ; driving Ford Focus WRC
- 24th Rally
win
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| 2003 |
- joins
Citroen WRC
- record 25th
Rally win (Rally of Turkey)
- finish 3rd
overall
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| 2004 |
- 2nd year
with Citroen WRC
- achieves
a new world record: 26th Rally win
- announce
retirement at age 42 "... I have retired to spend more time
with my family .."
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