1980 World Rally Championship season

1980 World Rally Championship season Go to navigationGo to search 1980 season of the World Rally Championship Walter Roehrl 2012.jpg The German Walter Röhrl won his first world title in 1980. WRC category CEO SON Initial season 1973 At international level Rounds 12 Champions Champion pilot German flag Walter Röhrl Champion team Flag of Italy Fiat Chronology 1979 1980 1981 [edit data on Wikidata] The 1980 season was the 8th edition of the World Rally Championship. It started on January 19 at the Monte Carlo Rally and ended on December 14 at the Ivory Coast Rally. Among the official teams that faced the world championship that year, Fiat stood out, which was returning to the international scene after the successes of previous years. For his part, Ford, who had won the previous year, withdrew and gave all his material to coach David Sutton, who prepared a full program with Ari Vatanen and eventually Hannu Mikkola. For its part, Fiat kept Walter Röhrl and Markku Alén; Opel debuted the Ascona 400 and kept Anders Kullang and Jochi Klient as drivers; Mercedes with Hannu Mikkola and Björn Waldegård and Datsun and Talbot expanded their programs that featured Timo Salonen with a 160 J the first and with Henri Toivonen and Guy Fréquelin with Sunbeam, the second.1 As for the calendar, it remained the same, except for the premiere of the Codasur Rally to replace the Critérium de Québec, with which the FIA kept a date on the American continent. For their part, the Rally Sweden and the...