Alessandro Fiorio
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 Italy
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| World Rally Championship (WRC) | |||||||||
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| First rally: | Rally Monte Carlo 1986 | ||||||||
| Last rally: | Rally Australia 2002 | ||||||||
| Co-driver: |
Enrico Cantoni
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| Team: | Ralliart Italia | ||||||||
| Vehicle: | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII | ||||||||
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| Points: | 93 | ||||||||
Alessandro "Alex" Fiorio (born March 10, 1965 in Turin ) is a former Italian rally driver .
Career
Alex Fiorio is the son of the former Lancia motorsport manager and Ferrari racing director Cesare Fiorio . Thanks to his father's professional activity, Alex Fiorio had early contact with motorsport, but initially worked as a winter sports enthusiast . In 1977 he became the Italian youth champion in downhill skiing and in 1983 a state-certified ski instructor .
With great support from his father, he came to rallying in 1985. He won the Fiat Uno Italian Championship in his very first motorsport season and made his debut in the World Rally Championship a year later . He drove for two years for the Italian Jolly Club team and achieved his first world championship points in a Lancia Delta HF 4WD in 1987 at the San Remo Rally with seventh place overall. In 1988 he became a works driver at Lancia and was only one position away from an overall victory four times with second places. He came second in the Monte Carlo Rally , in Portugal , the Olympus Rally and in San Remo. Further top positions and a third place in the Acropolis Rally ensured second place overall in the drivers' world championship at the end of the year, behind his teammate Miki Biasion .
The 1989 season began with a fatal accident. On the fifth special stage of the Monte Carlo Rally, Fiorio lost control of his Lancia Delta Integrale and crashed into a group of spectators at almost 150 km / h. Among them were the Swedish pilot Lars-Erik Torph and his co-driver Bertil-Rune Rehnfeldt, who both died at the scene of the accident. Three other spectators were injured, some seriously. Fiorio and his copilot Luigi Pirollo survived the accident completely uninjured. As in the previous year, he was runner-up in the world championship at the end of the year, but despite four podium finishes, he again failed to achieve an individual victory.
At the end of 1990 Fiorio left Lancia and drove for different teams in the championship until 1995. During this time he was able to win the Cyprus Rally , a run to the European Rally Championship , three times in a row . Top positions in the World Rally Championship did not materialize. He contested his last World Rally Championship run in Australia in 2002. In the same year, he finished fifth in a Mitsubishi Lancer in the 1000 Lakes Rally and won the production car class. He was involved in the Italian rally championship until 2007 when he retired from active motorsport at the end of the year.
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| SURNAME | Fiorio, Alessandro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fiorio, Alex (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian rally driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |