Nicolas Vouilloz
Nicolas Vouilloz ( born February 8, 1976 in Nice ) is a French mountain biker and rally drivers.
- 2.1 Title
- 2.2 WRC results
- 2.3 IRC results
Career
Mountain bike
Nicolas Vouilloz was first known as mountain bikers. He won the 1992, 1993 and 1994, the mountain bike world championships in downhill in the Junior. In the elite followed in the years 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2002 seven more world titles in downhill. He also won the 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000 the Mountain Bike World Cup Downhill.
As Vouilloz 2003, his involvement in rallying reinforced, he ended his career as provisional mountain bikers. In 2006 he returned to the mountain and denied the Megavalanche in Alpe d' Huez, he finished as the winner. In 2007 he also took part in a World Cup race. After his activities in rallying largely driven back, he was regularly in 2010 Enduro competitions at the start.
In addition Vouilloz took the action as a developer of the French bicycle manufacturer Lapierre. Since 2011 he is employed by Lapierre as a permanent employee.
Rallying
During his active career as a mountain biker Vouilloz also came with rallying in contact. In 2001 he started with a Renault Clio RS Monte Carlo Rally. With a Peugeot 206 he was driving in the next two years in the French Rally Championship for vehicles of category Super 1600th he achieved his first major success in 2003, when he won the Cup brand Volant Peugeot 206. From 2004 Vouilloz was funded by the French motorsport federation FFSA. He was awarded a place in the semi-works team Bozian Racing and took the Peugeot 206 WRC at seven rallies in the World Rally Championship in part. His best finish was a ninth place in the Rally of Great Britain. In 2005 he started with a Subaru Impreza WRC by First Motorsport and later with a Škoda Fabia WRC in the French Rally Championship. He won the Rallye Lyon- Charbonnières and reached the podium three more times. The championship he finished in fourth place. The 2006 season played Vouilloz as a driver by the team BSA began a Peugeot 307 WRC. With a total of four victories at the Rallye Lyon- Charbonnières, the Rallye Alsace -Vosges, the Rallye du Limousin and the Rallye du Var and two second places he became French Rally Champion.
Then Vouilloz went into the newly formed Intercontinental Rally Challenge. In the 2007 season he drove a Peugeot 207 S2000 Peugeot Sport España. He won victories at the Rally of Turkey, the Barum Rally Zlín and the Rallye International du Valais and two other podium finishes. In the championship he ran a close second. 2008 Vouilloz joined the Belgian Kronos Racing Peugeot team. It was after eight of nine rallies driven on the podium. Despite only one win in the Rally of Madeira thus he collected enough points to win and to celebrate the biggest success of his career in rallying the title. The 2009 season, however, was again less successful. Vouilloz had to regularly complain failures and indeed achieved four podium finishes, but was never at the top of the podium. In the Final of the Championship, he finished in fourth place.
Since Vouilloz was from 2010, now again mainly active as a mountain biker, he has since appeared only guest appearances in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. After his contract was not renewed with Peugeot, he received at Škoda Motorsport a cockpit in a Škoda Fabia S2000 for the Monte Carlo Rally. He was third in 2010 and 2011 seventh.
Rally statistics
Title
- French Rally Championship: 2006
- Intercontinental Rally Challenge: 2008