Piero Liatti

Piero Liatti ( born May 7, 1962 in Biella ) is an Italian former rally driver.

Career

Liatti actually began his career on the race track, but its usage was in 1981 in the Italian Renault 5 Cup so sparse that can be described as former racetrack pilots him hardly. These first motorsport efforts were piecemeal. In 1985 he entered the rallying. He was team-mate Alex Fiorio at Jolly Club Totip and went from the middle of the season in the Fiat Uno Italian Cup at the start. After Fiorio was changed to the World Rally Championship in 1986, Liatti played for the team for another season in the Fiat Uno Championship and secured at the end of the year overall.

In 1987 he moved to a Lancia Rally 037 and played with this vehicle, the Italian Rally Championship. End of the 1990s he went into the European Rally Championship, the overall standings, he won a works Lancia Delta Integrale 16V 1991. As early as 1990 he had given at the San Remo Rally in his debut in the World Rally Championship. After the withdrawal of Lancia Liatti moved in 1993 to Prodrive and drove there with rally cars the Subaru brand in the world championship. However, he played only in 1998, when team-mate Colin McRae, a full season in the World Championship. In the period of collaboration with Subaru was his only victory falls in the World Cup. In 1997, he won the Monte Carlo Rally. In 1999 he moved to seat, but there was no success. After several unsuccessful rallies at Ford and Hyundai is Liatti end of 2004 withdrew from motorsport.

Liatti was considered faster pilot, but was prone to error and was able to keep his pace rarely over an entire rally event. His speed record 72 special stage at only 53 rallies in the World Cup. Despite this high number of best times he was able to celebrate only one overall winner and was a total of only nine times on the podium of the first three.