(1962-10-08) 8 October 1962 (age 61) St. Vith, Belgium
World Rally Championship record
Active years
1991–2002
Co-driver
Dany Delvaux Stéphane Prévot Georges Biar
Teams
General Motors Europe, Ford, Subaru, Škoda, Bastos racing team
Championships
0
Rally wins
0
Podiums
5
Stage wins
39
Total points
173
First rally
1989 Acropolis Rally
Last rally
2002 San Remo Rally
Bruno Thiry (born 8 October 1962) is a Belgian rally driver. He was born in St. Vith, Liège Province.
He began his career as an amateur in 1981, driving a Simca, and quickly became very successful in the Belgian Rally Championship. by 1991 to 1993, he joined the GME team that contested only in some selected World Rally Championship (WRC) events and in non-WRC events. In 1992, he managed a first podium finish for him on the final running of the notorious Rallye Côte d'Ivoire and finished second in an ex-works Opel Kadett GSI. The following year saw Thiry win some WRC events in an Opel Astra[broken anchor] in the F2 category and brought GME its first manufacturer's title of the inaugural FIA 2-Litre World Cup in 1993. 1994, the year saw Thiry join the Ford team to contest the WRC, driving a Ford Escort RS Cosworth. In these years, he managed several third places; in the RAC Rally in 1994 and in Rally San Remo and the Rally Catalunya in 1996. He finished fifth overall in the WRC standings in 1994.
Thiry at the 2001 Rally Finland.
In 1997, he won the Rally of the Azores in a privately entered Escort Cosworth. The following year saw Thiry continue with Ford and he contested thirteen events with the exception of the Safari Rally and Rally Portugal due to an accident that caused Thiry two broken ribs and he was replaced by Ari Vatanen as the second driver for the team. Then in 1999 he campaigned a Subaru Impreza in his role as third driver for the Subaru World Rally Team.
2001 saw Thiry joined the Škoda Motorsport team and he had a disappointing year in the Octavia WRC. His highest placings that year were eight place in the Monte Carlo Rally, the Cyprus Rally and Rally Great Britain.
In 2002 and 2003, the Peugeot 206 WRC was Thiry's vehicle of choice. He won the Ypres Rally both years, and became European Champion in 2003 after five victories. In 2004, he was runner-up in a Citroën C2 S1600.
Since 2005, Thiry has more or less retired from motorsport and only occasionally competes on events. A notable recent result was a second place on the Rally of Condroz in 2006, driving a Peugeot 307 WRC. His co-driver for most of his rallying career was fellow-Belgian Stéphane Prévot.
BrunoThiry (born 8 October 1962) is a Belgian rally driver. He was born in St. Vith, Liège Province. He began his career as an amateur in 1981, driving...
drivers, including 1981 World Champion Ari Vatanen, young Belgian driver BrunoThiry and Franco Cunico. With the exception of Vatanen's third place in Argentina...
Thiry is a surname. Notable people with the name include: BrunoThiry (born 1962), Belgian rally driver Jean Bastien-Thiry (1927–1963), attempted to assassinate...
Carlo third in Sweden while Thiry finishes 6th and 8th respectively. At the Safari Rally and the Rally of Portugal, BrunoThiry was replaced (due to injury)...
both of his ankles. A third car was driven on a number of rounds by BrunoThiry, and a number of other drivers including future champion Tommi Makinen...
Richard Burns/Robert Reid, Juha Kankkunen/Juha Repo, and third team of BrunoThiry/Stéphane Prévot. The new car, the WRC99, featured an electronically controlled...
Patrick Magaud 5 Opel Team Belgium Opel Calibra 16V Kadett GSI 16V M BrunoThiry 5, 11–12 Alain Lopes 12 BMW Bernardini BMW M3 P Patrick Bernardini 5...
under David Richards for the 1999 season, joining Juha Kankkunen and BrunoThiry as part of the factory team driving Subaru Impreza WRCs, replacing Ford-bound...
Impreza WRC 99 P 5 Richard Burns All 6 Juha Kankkunen 1–4, 7–14 BrunoThiry 5–6 14 BrunoThiry 1–4 Juha Kankkunen 5 17 Possum Bourne 9, 13 Ford Motor Co Ltd...
Abdullah Bakhashab Bobby Willis 7 Peugeot Bastos Racing Peugeot 206 WRC BrunoThiry Stéphane Prévot 1, 3–5, 7, 10–11 Peugeot Sport Finland Sebastian Lindholm...
Chaves 4 Ford Motor Co Ltd Ford Escort WRC M 7 Juha Kankkunen All 8 BrunoThiry 1–2, 5–13 Ari Vatanen 3–4 11 Ari Vatanen 10 SEAT Sport SEAT Córdoba WRC...
Burns 5 R.A.S. Ford Ford Escort RS Cosworth M 7 François Delecour All 8 BrunoThiry All 9 Stig Blomqvist 2 Alex Fiorio 3 Patrick Bernardini 4 Neil Allport...
notable success. A Calibra finished ninth in the 1992 Sanremo Rallye, with BrunoThiry at the wheel. This did make it the fastest car in the 1600 to 2000 cc...
20-year-old spectator did not hear the zero car driven by BrunoThiry coming. Although Thiry was able to dodge into a ditch, his car bounced back on the...
Kankkunen stayed with Ford for the 1998 season with Belgian driver BrunoThiry as his new teammate, after Sainz had opted to re-join Toyota. Ford was...
Ret 6 8 5 Ret Ret Ret 8 Ret 8 Ret Ret 4 16 Thomas Rådström 4 Ret 3 17 BrunoThiry 5 2 18 Armin Schwarz 7 7 8 11 5 Ret 12 13 2 19 Sebastian Lindholm 5 2...
Ret GBR 2 4th 44 Subaru Impreza WRC 98 KEN Ret Subaru Impreza WRC 99 BrunoThiry ESP 7 FRA Ret 14th* 6* 14 MON 5 SWE 10 POR 6 ARG GRE NZL FIN CHN ITA...
AB Mats Jonsson 2 Gazprom Rally Team Alexander Zheludov 14 Escort WRC BrunoThiry 14 Totta Peres Competicao Fernando Peres 4 Belgacom Turbo Team Gregoire...
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