on 29 August 2014 of cancer at the age of 70. Björn Waldegård – Rally blev mitt liv, by Waldegård, Björn & Karlsson, Gerhard, Årets Bilsport 1994, 212...
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Alén, respectively. The first official world champion in rallying was Björn Waldegård in 1979. Each season normally consists of 12 to 16 rallies driven on...
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1975 and 1976 championship titles in the hands of Sandro Munari and Björn Waldegård, and might have gone on to win more had not internal politics within...
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place. The first victory came in the 1982 Rally of New Zealand with Björn Waldegård in a 2000GT (RA63). From 1983 to 1986, the Group B Celica Twincam Turbo...
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three victories in the Ivory Coast Rally, led by Björn Waldegård. In 1984, the Swedish driver Waldegård also finished first overall at the Safari Rally...
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around the world. In the 1979 season of the World Rally Championship, Björn Waldegård took the drivers' title, Hannu Mikkola was runner-up and Ari Vatanen...
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1979 World Rally Championship World Drivers' Champion: Björn Waldegård World Manufacturers' Champion: Ford Previous 1978 Next 1980 The 1979 World Rally...
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Many world renown drivers have won this event including Walter Röhrl, Björn Waldegård, Ari Vatanen, Stig Blomqvist, Juha Kankkunen, Carlos Sainz and Colin...
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the 1985 Rallye Côte d'Ivoire, Toyota teammates Juha Kankkunen and Björn Waldegård had the same amount of penalty minutes (4 hours and 46 minutes). Mehta...
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Italy's Sandro Munari and Finland's Markku Alén respectively. Sweden's Björn Waldegård became the first official world champion, edging out Finland's Hannu...
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