Giandomenico Basso

Giandomenico Basso

Nation:	Italy
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally San Remo 1998
Last rally:	Rally Turkey 2006
Co-driver:	Mitia Dotta
Team:	Abarth & Co. SpA
Vehicle:	Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 16 - - -
Points:	-
Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC)
First rally:	Belgium Ypres Westhoek Rally 2006
Co-driver:	Mitia Dotta
Team:	Proton Motorsport
Vehicle:	Proton Satria Neo S2000
Rallies: Victories: Podiums: WP 29 6th 11 52
Championship title:	2006
Points:	119
Status: After rally 10 of 11, 2011 season

Giandomenico Basso (born September 15, 1973 in Montebelluna ) is an Italian rally driver .

Career

Giandomenico Basso in the Fiat Punto S1600 at the 2002 Rallye Deutschland

Giandomenico Basso began his karting career in 1981 and drove his first rally in 1994. In 1998 he made his debut in the World Rally Championship in the Fiat Seicento Sporting at the San Remo Rally . From 2001 he started in the Fiat Punto S1600 in the Junior World Rally Championship . With two JWRC podium finishes, he reached fifth place in the championship. In 2002 he made three podiums in the JWRC and finished fourth in the championship at the end of the season.

From 2003 Basso continued his career in the European Rally Championship and in the Italian Rally Championship . In 2003 he was runner-up in the Italian championship. In the ERC he achieved eleventh place in the drivers' championship with third place in the Mille Miglia rally. From 2004 he started with his new co-driver Mitia Dotta . Basso won the Mille Miglia rally and finished the season on the sixth championship course of the ERC and fourth in the Italian championship. In 2005 he played a full season in the ERC for the first time. He was victorious in Rally Bulgaria and EKO Rally and finished three other rallies in second place. In the fight for the title he had to admit defeat Renato Travaglia by only three points .

From the 2006 season, the Fiat factory team used the more powerful Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000 , with which Basso now competed in rallies. In the ERC he achieved victories in the Fiat Rally , the Belgium Ypres Westhoek Rally , the Rally Bulgaria and the Rali Vinho da Madeira and thus became the superior European Rally Champion. Since the rallies he won in Ypres and Bulgaria were also part of the newly founded Intercontinental Rally Challenge , he also achieved overall victory in the IRC. In 2007, Basso started again in the Italian championship. He regularly finished on the podium and finished three rallies as the winner. At the end of the season he had collected the most points and became Italian rally champion. During his guest starts in the IRC, he also won the Rali Vinho da Madeira and came second in the San Remo Rally. The successes were enough for fifth place in the overall ranking of the IRC.

Starting in 2008, Basso and the Fiat factory team competed in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge for most of the season. There he won victories in the Principe de Asturias Rally and the San Remo Rally and finished the championship in third place. In 2009, Basso won the Rali Vinho da Madeira and reached fifth place in the overall ranking of the IRC. He was now back in the European Rally Championship, in which he was very successful with a total of seven ERC victories and was European champion for the second time after three years. In 2010 Basso took part again in the Italian championship. However, he remained without a win and ended the season on the fourth championship course.

After the 2010 season, Basso left his long-term employer, Fiat. After initially contesting the 2011 Monte Carlo Rally with a privately entered Peugeot 207 S2000 , he was signed by the Proton works team. With the Proton Satria Neo S2000 , he completed a program of six rallies in the 2011 IRC .

statistics

title

• European Rally Championship : 2006, 2009
• Intercontinental Rally Challenge : 2006
• Italian Rally Championship : 2007

WRC results

season	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	Item
1998	Giandomenico Basso	Fiat Seicento Sporting	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	ITA DNF	OUT	GBR				0	-
1999	Giandomenico Basso	Fiat Cinquecento Sporting	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	CHN	ITA 23	OUT	GBR			0	-
2001	Top run	Fiat Punto S1600	MON	SWE	POR	ESP 16	ARG	CYP	GRE DNF	KEN	FIN DNF	NZL	ITA DNF	FRA 15	OUT	GBR DNF			0	-
2002	N. Technology	Fiat Punto S1600	MON DNF	SWE	FRA	ESP 21	CYP	ARG	GRE DNF	KEN	FIN	GER 21	ITA 16	NZL	OUT	GBR 24			0	-
2004	N. Technology	Fiat Punto S1600	MON	SWE	MEX	NZL	CYP	GRE	DOOR	ARG	FIN	GER	JPN	GBR	ITA	FRA	ESP 15	OUT	0	-
2006	Abarth & Co. SpA	Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000	MON	SWE	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG	ITA	GRE	GER	FIN	JPN	CYP	TUR 35	OUT	NZL	GBR	0	-

IRC results

season	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	Points	Item
2006	Abarth & Co. SpA	Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000	RSA	YPR 1	MAD 1	SAN									20th	1
2007	Abarth & Co. SpA	Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000	SAF	DOOR	YPR	RUS	MAD 1	ZLI	SAN 2	VAL	CHN				18th	5
2008	Abarth & Co. SpA	Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000	IS DNF	POR 4	YPR 6	RUS 3	MAD 2	ZLI DNF	AST 1	SAN 1	VAL 5	CHN			46	3
2009	Abarth & Co. SpA	Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000	MON 5	CUR 3	SAF	AZO DNF	YPR 8	RUS 3	MAD 1	ZLI DNF	AST 8	SAN	SCO		28	5
2010	Abarth & Co. SpA	Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000	MON	CUR	ARG	CAN	SAR	YPR	AZO	MAD	ZLI	SAN 7	SCO	CYP	2	36
2011	Giandomenico Basso	Peugeot 207 S2000	MON 9												5	28
	Proton Motorsport	Proton Satria Neo S2000		CAN 9	COR	YAL DNF	YPR DNF	AZO	ZLI 13	MEC DNF	SAN 10	SCO	CYP

Web links

Commons : Giandomenico Basso  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• official homepage
• Results and statistics on eWRC-results.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2001 FIA Super 1600 Drivers Championship - Final classification
2. ↑ 2002 FIA Junior World Rally Championship for Drivers - Final classification
3. ↑ 2003 Italian Rally Championship for Drivers - Final classification
4. ↑ Basso wins - Pedersoli strong (Rallye-Magazin.de on April 3, 2004)
5. ↑ 2004 Italian Rally Championship for Drivers - Final classification
6. ↑ 2005 Italian Rally Championship for Drivers - Final classification
7. ↑ Basso and FIAT European champions (Rallye-Magazin.de on August 5, 2006)
8. ↑ IRC finale in San Remo (Rallye-Magazin.de on September 14, 2006)
9. ↑ 2007 Italian Rally Championship for Drivers - Final classification
10. ↑ Madeira success for Basso (Rallye-Magazin.de on August 4, 2007)
11. ↑ Abarth with Basso and Alen (Rallye-Magazin.de on December 23, 2007)
12. ↑ Fiat Abarth strikes back (Rallye-Magazin.de on September 14, 2008)
13. ↑ Basso also wins at home game (Rallye-Magazin.de on September 27, 2008)
14. ↑ Basso wins the Madeira thriller (Motorsport-Total.com on August 2, 2009)
15. ↑ Basso becomes European Champion (Rallye-Magazin.de on November 1st, 2009)
16. ↑ Basso grateful for support (Motorsport-Total.com on January 16, 2011)
17. ↑ Fix: Proton signs Basso (Motorsport-Total.com on March 26, 2011)