- Bernard Darniche
WRC driver
Name = Bernard Darniche
Caption =
Nationality = flagicon|France French
Years = 1973 - 1987
Teams =Alpine-Renault ,Lancia ,Audi
Races = 38
Championships = 0
Wins = 7
Podiums = 11
Stagewins = 115
Points = 87
First race = 1973Monte Carlo Rally
First win = 1973Rally Morocco
Last win = 1981Tour de Corse
Last race = 1987Tour de Corse Bernard Darniche (born
March 28 ,1942 ) is a French former rally driver. He won the European Rally Championship in 1976 and 1977 and the French Rally Championship in 1976 and 1978, each time behind the wheel of aLancia Stratos . He also holds the record for most victories in theTour de Corse which he won six times (1970, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1981), a feat later equalled byDidier Auriol .He competed in the first
World Rally Championship s in 1973, winning the 16th Moroccan Rally and placing second in the 44th Alpine Rally, and was one of the top competitors for the remainder of the decade. He finished third in the inauguralFIA Cup for Rally Drivers in 1977, the first of three successive top ten finishes in the drivers' championship.He also won the
Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo in 1979, the event where he holds the record for most wins on the infamousCol de Turini stage, a 1,600 m Alpinemountain pass normally driven in darkness. The so-called "Night of the Long Knives" has seen Darniche victorious on ten occasions.External links
* [http://www.rallybase.nl/index.php?type=profile&driverid=3124 Profile of Darniche and list of results] , Rallybase.nl
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