Daniel Sordo
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| Nation: |
 Spain
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| World Rally Championship (WRC) | |||||||||
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| First rally: | Rally Catalonia 2003 | ||||||||
| Co-driver: |
Marc Marti Carlos Del Barrio
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| Team: |
Hyundai World Rally Team (2014–) Citroën World Rally Team (2006–2010, 2013) Mini WRC Team (2011, 2012) |
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| Vehicle: |
Hyundai i20 WRC Citroën DS3 WRC Citroën C4 WRC Mini Countryman WRC Citroën Xsara WRC |
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| Points: | 1124 | ||||||||
| Status: After rally 3 of 8, 2020 season | |||||||||
Daniel "Dani" Sordo Castillo (born May 2, 1983 in Torrelavega , Cantabria ) is a Spanish rally driver .
Career
Beginnings
Daniel Sordo started his career with motocross . Before he switched to rallying in 1999 , he celebrated successes in off-road motorcycle racing, in karting and in touring car races . After two years of regular participation in Spanish rallies, he made his WRC debut at the Catalonia Rally in 2003 . In 2004 he won the Spanish Junior Championship in a Citroën C2 S1600 . In 2005 he became Junior World Champion and Spanish Champion in the same vehicle . From 2005 Marc Martí , who previously formed a team with double world champion Carlos Sainz , was Sordo's co-driver.
Factory driver at Citroën (2006-2010)
In 2006 Daniel Sordo received a place in the third Citroën Xsara WRC of the Kronos Racing team, which this year formed the Citroën World Rally Team . After he had contested the first eight rallies with the vehicle from last year, he replaced Xavier Pons in the second Kronos-Xsara, which was state-of-the-art, for the other eight World Championship rallies . Now he was allowed to collect points for the manufacturers' championship. In 2006 he achieved a total of two second and two third places. From 2007 he was used as the second regular driver alongside Sébastien Loeb at Citroën. As a works driver at Citroën, Sordo achieved fifteen second places and ten third places, but did not win a world championship run, while his teammate Loeb drove from world title to world title. In the 2010 season, Sordo separated from his co-driver Marc Martí, Diego Vallejo succeeded Martí. In the last three rallies of the 2010 season , Sordo had to swap places with the young Citroën driver Sébastien Ogier, who had already won a rally for the Citroën junior team in the same year. Since Ogier achieved a second victory for the factory team at the Rally Japan , Sordo was finally replaced in the Citroën factory team by Sébastien Ogier from the 2011 season.
Change to Mini (2011, 2012)
In the 2011 season , Sordo took part with a Mini WRC for the newly created Mini WRC Team . The car was developed in collaboration with Prodrive . His new co-driver was Carlos Del Barrio . With Sordo and his team-mate Kris Meeke , the Mini WRC Team took part in six rallies in the 2011 season: Italy , Finland , Germany , France , Catalonia and Wales . This served as preparation for the full deployment of the 2012 season, where the team should also race for brand points.
In Sardinia , Sordo achieved sixth place overall when he first used the Mini. In Finland he retired on the last stage because of a clogged radiator. At the Rallye Deutschland , Sordo achieved the first podium place for the Mini-Team with third place and received the Spirit of the Rally award. In the Rally France , the fourth rally participation of Sordo and Mini surprised Sordo positive, as he finished the first day as overall leader and the first special stage import -Bestzeit for the mini-team. The next day the leadership changed several times between Sordo, his successor at Citroën Ogier, and Petter Solberg . Ultimately, Sordo finished the Rally France in second place, 6.3 seconds behind Ogier. During his home rally in Catalonia , Sordo didn't quite live up to his own expectations and finished fourth.
After six participations in thirteen rallies, Sordo finished eighth in the drivers' championship at the end of the season .
The Mini WRC team had serious problems with funding the project as they failed to find a sponsor. From the full participation in the 2012 season , eight of thirteen rallies are left for Sordo. Before the season started, test drives had to be canceled and planned expansion stages of the vehicle postponed. At the Monte Carlo Rally Sordo took part, reaching the previous year's Mini WRC the surprising second overall. In the Argentina Rally , Sordo drove a Ford Focus RS WRC instead of the injured Jari-Matti Latvala . At the end of the season, Sordo was 11th in the World Cup with 51 points.
Return to Citroën (2013)
In 2013 Dani Sordo returned to Citroën, Mikko Hirvonen was his new teammate. With the DS3 WRC he made it onto the winners' podium in third place in Monte Carlo . Three more podium places came in the course of the season, 2nd place each in Greece and France and he won his first World Rally Championship round at Rally Germany . In the overall standings, Sordo finished fifth and was one place behind Hirvonen, who however could not win a rally this year.
With the Hyundai factory team (since 2014)
In 2014 , Sordo drove for the Hyundai team that has just entered the World Rally Championship. Although he was not allowed to drive the entire season, Marc Martí returned to Sordo's car as co-driver. With a second place at the Rallye Deutschland , he achieved his best result of the season. His team-mate Thierry Neuville won the rally and Hyundai celebrated a double victory. With 40 points, Sordo was tenth in the drivers' world championship.
In 2015 , Sordo was also on the road with the Hyundai i20 WRC . This season he contested all world championship races except the Rally Sweden . After falling off his bike, he had to pause because of broken ribs. In the drivers' world championship, Sordo was eighth with 89 points. In 2016 , the Spaniard improved to fifth overall with two second places as the best results. He was left behind against his teammates Thierry Neuville and Hayden Paddon .
In 2017 , Sordo again reached the podium twice and ended up in sixth place overall in the World Cup. Sordo has not driven a full season since 2018 , he only started in selected World Championship races, and he shared the team's third car with Hayden Paddon. Still, Sordo made it onto the podium twice during the season.
In 2019 , Sordo shared the car with Sébastien Loeb , who moved to Hyundai after 20 years at Citroën. In the Rally Sardinia , Sordo won his first rally with the Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC. At the end of the season he finished eighth overall with 89 points. Also in 2020 Dani Sordo will drive for Hyundai. It is envisaged that he will compete in a few rallies, the most recent being the Rally Mexico .
statistics
Individual results in the WRC
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| Legend | ||
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| colour | abbreviation | meaning |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
WRC victories
| # | rally | season | Co-pilot | automobile |
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| 1 |
 31st ADAC Rallye Deutschland
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2013 |
Carlos del Barrio
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Citroën DS3 WRC |
| 2 |
 16º Rally d'Italia Sardegna
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2019 | Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC |
Web links
- Official website of Daniel Sordo (span.)
- Results and statistics on eWRC-results.com
- Results on rallybase.nl (English)
- Statistics on juwra.com
- Profile at WRC.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sordo becomes second Kronos driver ( Memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Rallye-Magazin.de on July 5, 2006)
- ↑ Sordo separates from co-driver Marti (Motorsport-Total.com on August 8, 2010)
- ↑ Tobias Grüner: Mini Countryman WRC from 2011 in the World Rally Championship . auto-motor-und-sport.de. 2010-07-27. Retrieved January 23, 2011.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sordo, Daniel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sordo Castillo, Daniel (full name); Sordo Castillo, Dani (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish rally driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2nd 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torrelavega , Cantabria , Spain |