Thread: Top 10 greatest drivers of all time.

Originally Posted by D-Type

To make this more interesting, can I suggest that people should write a couple of sentences about each driver they list

Originally Posted by iva.rpm

1 - Ayrton Senna
2 - Tazio Nuvolari
3 - Jim Clark
4 - Graham Hill
5 - Jackie Stewart
6 - Sandro Munari
7 - Jacky Ickx
8 - Juha Kankkunen
9 - Rick Mears
10 - Dale Earnhardt

iva.rpm,
Welcome to the history forum.
In future can I ask you to please read a thread before posting to it.

For me it is Stig Blomqvist!!

He is born in 1946. The first rally he entered he finnished 2nd in a Volvo 544.
He has won the Swedish Rally Championship in 1971,-73, -74, -75, -76, -78, -80, -82, and 1994.


In 1983 he won the Swedish Rallycross Championship.


He won the Swedish Hillclimb Championship in 1982, -83, -87, -88, -89, -93.

In 1990 he won the Swedish Group A Racing Championship.

He raced a M.A.N. in the European Truckracing Championship (Cant remember the year. ) He won the Race of Champions in 1989 and 1990.


In 1984 he became the World Rally Champion, he also won the first victory in a turbocharged car in the World Rally Championship in 1979. It was in a SAAB 99 Turbo, in the Swedish Rally. He has also won the Swedish Rally 7 times.


In 1996 he finnished 3rd in the R.A.C. Rally, in a frontwheel drive Skoda!!


In 2002 he finnished 4th overall in Pikes Peak. And he won the La Carerra Panamericana in a Studebaker, in 2009...........
In 2009 he was 63 years old, and he is still racing today!!

Jim Cark. On the rally side, the blindingly quick guys who survived in rallying in the crazy years were Walter Rohl, Ari Vatenen, Stig Blomquist. In more quiet era's Juha Kankkunen, Tommi Makinen, Roger Clark, Colin Mc Rae, Hannu Mikkola. Schumi and Fangio too.

Senna
Lauda
Clark
Andretti
Fangio
Prost
Schumacher
Donahue
Foyt
Belloff
Earnhardt\Tony Stewart

Originally Posted by Volvo in Motorsport

In 1996 he finnished 3rd in the R.A.C. Rally, in a frontwheel drive Skoda!!

Few drives in motorsport have given me as much pleasure as did that! What a superb exhibition of handling an underpowered, two-wheel-drive car. Proves you don't need four-wheel-drive and a lot of power to be exciting.

Originally Posted by Mikey G

1 - Ayrton Senna
2 - Tazio Nuvolari
3 - Jim Clark
4 - Graham Hill
5 - Jackie Stewart
6 - Sandro Munari
7 - Jacky Ickx
8 - Juha Kankkunen
9 - Rick Mears
10 - Dale Earnhardt

Please read the second posting on this thread

Originally Posted by D-Type

To make this more interesting, can I suggest that people should write a couple of sentences about each driver they list

Originally Posted by BDunnell

Few drives in motorsport have given me as much pleasure as did that! What a superb exhibition of handling an underpowered, two-wheel-drive car. Proves you don't need four-wheel-drive and a lot of power to be exciting.

Look at some of the in car footage - completely calm and in control. Fabulous effort, and his interviews were cool, and calm personified. And if I remember rightly, one of the other Skodas, Emil Triner, had the fastest time on the long Hafren stage.

Slightly off topic, but I wish the WRC was set up to enable lightweight 2WD cars to be competitive over a season, so a more even split of Tarmac/ Gravel.

Originally Posted by AndyRAC

Look at some of the in car footage - completely calm and in control. Fabulous effort, and his interviews were cool, and calm personified. And if I remember rightly, one of the other Skodas, Emil Triner, had the fastest time on the long Hafren stage.

Slightly off topic, but I wish the WRC was set up to enable lightweight 2WD cars to be competitive over a season, so a more even split of Tarmac/ Gravel.

I agree completely. Of course, the WRC was very briefly like that — in 1987, the first year after the end of Group B as the leading category. No-one really seemed to notice, given the sense of anti-climax the Group A cars seemed to generate, but I thought it was a great season. Three performances above all others stand out — Jean Ragnotti in the Renault 11 Turbo on the Portuguese Rally, Pentti Airikkala in an Opel Kadett GSi on the Manx International, and Louise Aitken-Walker in the Peugeot 205GTi on the RAC. Just like Blomqvist on that 1996 RAC, all were superb exhibitions of spectacular front-wheel-drive motoring in underpowered machinery, and on three very different events to boot.