Tomas Bernardo Rodrigues Sousa (born May 16, 1987) is a Portuguese

rally driver Rally is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests (often called ''rally racing),'' navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed time or average speed. ...

. Born in

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, Portugal, and having previously competed in

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, Sousa began his rally career in 2006, competing in the Portuguese national championship. In 2008 he began competing in the

Production World Rally Championship The FIA Production World Rally Championship, or PWRC, was a companion rally series to the World Rally Championship, contested by Group N rally cars. History The series started in 1987 as ''FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers'' and obtained the ...

(P-WRC), a class of the

World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is the highest level of global competition in the motorsport discipline of rallying, owned and governed by the FIA. There are separate championships for drivers, co-drivers, manufacturers and t ...

. He finished second in class on the

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, finishing the season ninth in the P-WRC standings. In 2009 he switched from a

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, popularly referred to as the 'Evo', is a sports sedan and rally car based on the Lancer that was manufactured by Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Motors from 1992 until 2016. There have been ten official versio ...

to an Abarth Grande Punto, finishing the season in tenth. In 2010 he moves to the new

Super 2000 World Rally Championship The FIA WRC2 (previously also known as World Rally Championship 2 and WRC 2), is a support championship of the World Rally Championship. The calendar consists of the same rallies and stages as the main class and crews usually compete immediately ...

(S-WRC) in a

Ford Fiesta S2000 The Ford Fiesta S2000 is a Super 2000 rally car built by M-Sport. It is based upon the Ford Fiesta road car. It made its racing debut at the 78th Rallye Monte Carlo in 2010, with factory team M-Sport and drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Julien Maur ...

, winning his class in his first rally in the S2000, the

2011 Jordan Rally The 2011 Jordan Rally was the fourth round of the 2011 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place over 14–16 April, and was based beside the Dead Sea, some from the country's capital, Amman. The rally was also be the second round o ...

Racing record

WRC results

PWRC results

SWRC results

WRC 2 results

Drive DMACK Cup results

IRC results

Big Brother

In 2022 Sousa enters the

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as a

, and he ends up winning it after 57 days.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sousa, Bernardo 1987 births Living people Portuguese rally drivers Intercontinental Rally Challenge drivers European Rally Championship drivers Madeiran sportspeople