Fulvio Bacchelli (born 22 January 1951 in
Trieste
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) is a former
Italian rally
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Sports ...
driver, who won
Rally New Zealand in 1977, a round of the
World Rally Championship.
Career
Bacchelli began rallying in 1971. In 1974 he joined the works
Fiat
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team, finishing sixth on that year's
Tour de Corse. He finished fourth in the 1975
Monte Carlo Rally
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. In 1977 he won
Rally New Zealand, or the South Pacific Rally as it was then known, in his
Fiat 131 Abarth
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.
At the end of the year Fiat and Lancia's rally departments merged and he lost his factory drive.
WRC victories
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References
External links
Profile at World Rally ArchiveProfile at RallyBase
Living people
1951 births
Sportspeople from Trieste
Italian rally drivers
World Rally Championship drivers
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