Sandro Munari

WRC driver
Name = Sandro Munari


Caption =
Nationality = flagicon|Italy Italian
Years = 1973 - 1984
Teams = Lancia
Races = 36
Championships = 1 (1977)
Wins = 7
Podiums = 14
Stagewins = 91
Points = 7
First race = 1973 Monte Carlo Rally
First win = 1974 San Remo Rally
Last win = 1977 Monte Carlo Rally
Last race = 1984 Safari Rally

Sandro Munari (born 27 March 1940) is a former motor racing and rally driver from Italy.

Career

Born at Cavarzere, Veneto, Sandro Munari began rallying in 1965 and won the Italian Rally Championship in 1967 and 1969, adding the European Rally Championship title in 1973. In 1972 he won the Targa Florio sports car endurance race, partnering Arturo Merzario in a works Ferrari 312PB. Also in 1972 Munari claimed his first major rally victory, winning the Monte Carlo Rally in a works Lancia Fulvia.

He was to become synonymous with another of Lancia's rally icons, the Lancia Stratos, and the partnership of Italian car and Italian driver scooped a further Monte Carlo Rally hat-trick in the mid-1970s, among a total of seven World Rally Championship victories. Munari also won the 1977 "FIA Cup for Rally Drivers" title. Later in his career he competed with a Fiat 131 Abarth, finishing third at the 1978 Tour de Corse and sixth at the 1980 Rallye Côte d'Ivoire. His last WRC appearances were at the Safari Rally, which he contested from 1981 to 1984, but retired each time.

WRC victories

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References

*cite web |url= http://www.rallye-info.com/driverprofile.asp?driverid=240 |title= Driver Profile - Sandro Munari |accessdate=2007-02-17 |format= |work= www.Rallye-Info.com
*cite web |url= http://www.rallybase.nl/index.php?type=profile&driverid=3486 |title= Sandro Munari: Full results |accessdate=2007-02-17 |format= |work= RallyBase