Nicolas Vouilloz

Nicolas Vouilloz

Nation:	France
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally Monte Carlo 2001
Last rally:	Rally Corsica 2006
Co-driver:	Jacques Boyere
Team:	Equipe de France FFSA
Vehicle:	Peugeot 307 WRC
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 11 - - -
Points:	-
Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC)
First rally:	Rally Turkey 2007
Last rally:	Rally Monte Carlo 2011
Co-driver:	Benjamin Veillas
Team:	Škoda Motorsport
Vehicle:	Škoda Fabia S2000
Rallies: Victories: Podiums: WP 26th 4th 18th 74
Championship title:	2008
Points:	153

Nicolas Vouilloz (born February 8, 1976 in Nice ) is a French mountain biker and rally driver .

Career

Mountain bike

Nicolas Vouilloz was first known as a mountain biker. In 1992, 1993 and 1994 he won the Junior Mountain Bike World Championships in downhill . The Elite followed in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2002 seven further world championship titles in downhill. He also won the Downhill Mountain Bike World Cup in 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000 .

When Vouilloz increased his involvement in rallying in 2003, he temporarily ended his career as a mountain biker. In 2006 he returned to the mountain bike and competed in the Megavalanche in L'Alpe d'Huez , which he finished as the winner. In 2007 he also took part in a World Cup race. After he had largely scaled back his activities in rallying, he regularly competed in Enduro in 2010 .

Vouilloz also started working as a developer for the French bicycle manufacturer Lapierre . He has been a permanent employee of Lapierre since 2011.

Rallying

Nicolas Vouilloz in the Peugeot 307 WRC at the 2006 Lyon-Charbonnières rally

During his active career as a mountain biker, Vouilloz also came into contact with rallying. In 2001, he started with a Renault Clio RS for the Monte Carlo Rally . In the following two years he drove a Peugeot 206 in the French rally championship for vehicles of the Super 1600 class . He achieved his first major success in 2003 when he won the one-make cup Volant Peugeot 206 . From 2004 Vouilloz was sponsored by the French motorsport association FFSA . He got a place in the semi-works team Bozian Racing and took part in seven rallies of the World Rally Championship in the Peugeot 206 WRC . His best result was a ninth place at the Rally Great Britain . In 2005 he started in a Subaru Impreza WRC from First Motorsport and later in a Škoda Fabia WRC in the French rally championship. He won the Lyon-Charbonnières rally and took the podium three more times. He finished the championship in fourth place. Vouilloz competed in the 2006 season as a driver for Team BSA , which fielded a Peugeot 307 WRC . With a total of four victories in the Lyon-Charbonnières rally, the Alsace-Vosges rally , the Limousin rally and the Var rally, as well as two second places, he became French rally champion.

Nicolas Vouilloz in the Škoda Fabia S2000 at the 2011 Monte Carlo Rally

Then Vouilloz got into the newly founded Intercontinental Rally Challenge . In the 2007 season he drove a Peugeot 207 S2000 from Peugeot Sport España . He achieved victories at the Rally Turkey , the Barum Czech Rally Zlín and the Rallye International du Valais as well as two other podium finishes. In the championship he was only just beaten second. In 2008 Vouilloz switched to the Belgian Peugeot team Kronos Racing . He was on the podium after eight of nine rallies. Despite only one victory at the Madeira Rally , he collected enough points to win the title and celebrate the greatest success of his career in rallying so far. The 2009 season, however, was less successful again. Vouilloz regularly suffered failures and although he achieved four podium positions, he was never at the top of the podium. In the final result of the championship he finished fourth.

Since Vouilloz was mainly active as a mountain biker again from 2010, he has only made guest starts in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge since then. After his contract with Peugeot was not renewed, he received a cockpit in a Škoda Fabia S2000 for the Monte Carlo Rally at Škoda Motorsport . There he was third in 2010 and seventh in 2011 .

Rally statistics

title

• French Rally Championship : 2006
• Intercontinental Rally Challenge : 2008

WRC results

season	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	Item
2001	Nicolas Vouilloz	Renault Clio RS	MON DNF	SWE	POR	ESP	ARG	CYP	GRE	KEN	FIN	NZL	ITA	FRA	OUT	GBR			0	-
2004	Bozian Racing	Peugeot 206 WRC	MON DNF	SWE	MEX	NZL	CYP	GRE DNF	DOOR	ARG	FIN	GER 12	JPN	GBR 9	ITA DNF	FRA DNF	ESP 10	OUT	0	-
2005	Nicolas Vouilloz	Škoda Fabia WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	NZL	ITA	CYP	DOOR	GRE	ARG	FIN	GER	GBR	JPN	FRA 10	ESP DNF	OUT	0	-
2006	Equipe de France FFSA	Peugeot 307 WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	ESP	FRA DNF	ARG	ITA	GRE	GER	FIN	JPN	CYP	DOOR	OUT	NZL	GBR	0	-

IRC results

season	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	Points	Item
2007	Peugeot Sport España	Peugeot 207 S2000	SAF	TUR 1	YPR DNF	RUS 3	MAD 9	ZLI 1	SAN 3	VAL 1	CHN				42	2
2008	Peugeot Team Benelux	Peugeot 207 S2000	IS 2	POR 3	YPR 2	RUS 5	MAD 1	ZLI 2	AST 2	SAN 2	VAL 2	CHN			58	1
2009	Peugeot Team Benelux	Peugeot 207 S2000	MON DNF	CUR 2	SAF	AZO 3	YPR DNF	RUS	MAD 4	ZLI DNF	AST 3	SAN 3	SCO		31	4th
2010	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	MON 3	CUR	ARG	CAN	SAR	YPR	AZO	MAD	ZLI	SAN	SCO	CYP	6th	15th
2011	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	MON 7	CAN	COR	YAL	YPR	AZO	ZLI	MEC	SAN	SCO	CYP		6th	23

1. ↑ Nicolas Vouilloz scored a total of 68 points in the 2008 IRC. However, due to the regulations, only the best seven results are taken into account for the overall ranking, only 58 points were included in the ranking.

Web links

Commons : Nicolas Vouilloz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nicolas Vouilloz in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Nicolas Vouilloz's website
• Rally results and statistics on ewrc-results.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UCI Mountain Bike World Championships Winners 1990-2010 ( Memento from September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} biography on Freeride.Bike-Magazin.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
3. ↑ Nicolas Vouilloz: The extraterrestrial returns (BikeSport-News.de on December 10, 2009)
4. ↑ Nicolas Vouilloz - now permanent employee at Lapierre ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Bike-TV on February 28, 2011)
5. ↑ Vouilloz gets his chance  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (Rallye-Magazin.de on May 6, 2004)
6. ↑ Vouilloz replaces Sarrazin (Rallye-Magazin.de on January 10, 2005)
7. ↑ Vouilloz reached the goal (Rallye-Magazin.de on November 27, 2006)
8. ↑ Peugeot starts in the IRC (Motorsport-Total.com on February 1, 2007)
9. ↑ Vouilloz lands on Kronos (Rallye-Magazin.de on February 15, 2008)
10. ↑ Vouilloz wins the IRC title (Rallye-Magazin.de on October 25, 2008)
11. ↑ Vouilloz: From mountain bike to rally car (Motorsport-Total.com on December 16, 2010)
12. ↑ Ex-Champ Vouilloz changes to the Skoda (Motorsport-Total.com on December 23, 2009)
13. ↑ Vouilloz hopes for more Skoda outings (Motorsport-Total.com on January 25, 2010)
14. ↑ "Monte": Bouffier wins the anniversary (Motorsport-Total.com on January 22, 2011)