Alex Fiorio

Alessandro "Alex" Fiorio ( born March 10, 1965 in Turin ) is an Italian former rally driver.

Career

Alex Fiorio is the son of former Lancia Motorsport responsible and Ferrari racing manager Cesare Fiorio. Due to the occupation of his father, Alex Fiorio had early contact with the motor sports, but was active for the time being as winter sports. In 1977 he was Italian youth champion in the downhill and 1983 certified ski instructor.

With the great support of his father he came in 1985 to rallying. He won in his first racing season, the Fiat Uno Italian Championship and made his debut in the World Rally Championship a year later. Two years he drove for the Italian Jolly Club team, reaching 1987 in the Rallye San Remo on a Lancia Delta HF 4WD with the seventh overall his first World Cup points. In 1988 he was works driver at Lancia and was four times removed only one position out of a total victory with second place. Second, he was at the Rally Monte Carlo, Portugal, the Olympus Rally and San Remo. Other top finishes and a third place at the Acropolis Rally attended at the end of the year for second overall in the drivers' world championship, behind his teammate Miki Biasion.

The 1989 season began with a fatal accident. In the fifth special stage of the Rallye Monte Carlo Fiorio lost control of his Lancia Delta Integrale and crashed with close to 150 km / h in a group of spectators. Among them were he Swedish pilot Lars -Erik Torph and his co-driver Bertil - Rune Rehn Feldt, both still died at the accident site. Three other spectators were injured, some seriously. Fiorio and his co- pilot Luigi Pirollo survived the accident unharmed. As in the previous year, it was the end of the year runner-up, but again reached despite four podiums, no single victory.

The end of 1990 left Lancia and Fiorio drove to 1995 for different teams in the championship. During this time he was also three times in succession, the Cyprus Rally, choose a run for the European Rally Championship for yourself. Top rankings in the World Rally Championship were from but. His last World Rally Championship race he competed in 2002 in Australia. In the same year he was on a Mitsubishi Lancer still fifth in the 1000 Lakes Rally and won the class of the production car. Until 2007 he was engaged in the Italian Rally Championship, when he resigned from active motorsport after the end of the year.

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