which Alén had won, were annulled. Alén's interest in motorsport came from his father, who was the 1963 Finnish champion in ice racing. Alén started...
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1987 the Lancias were driven by Massimo Biasion, Juha Kankkunen and Markku Alén. Biasion opened with a victory in the Monte Carlo Rally and later in...
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1980s to compete in the FIA Group B World Rally Championship. Driven by Markku Alén, Attilio Bettega, and Walter Röhrl, the car won Lancia the manufacturers'...
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Toivonen and carried Markku Alén to second in the drivers' championship the following year. For two weeks after the end of the 1986 season Alen was champion until...
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Peugeot's Juha Kankkunen, followed by two other "Flying Finns", Lancia's Markku Alén and Kankkunen's teammate Timo Salonen. The manufacturers' title was taken...
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1977 and 1978 as an FIA Cup for Drivers title, to Sandro Munari and Markku Alén, respectively. The first official world champion in rallying was Björn...
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beat the defending world champion Walter Röhrl and his Lancia teammate Markku Alén to the drivers' title. Lancia captured the manufacturers' title from...
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gain importance in the 1970s, and local heroes such as Hannu Mikkola, Markku Alén, Timo Salonen, Tommi Mäkinen and Marcus Grönholm are the most successful...
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non-French drivers to win the event more than once are Sandro Munari, Markku Alén, Colin McRae and Thierry Neuville. It has been largely popularized that...
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second, 3:41 minutes behind Ari Vatanen, and over seven minutes ahead of Markku Alén, who would go on to win the Cup. Toivonen went on to compete in two world...
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drivers to take several World Rally Championship wins with Lancia were Markku Alén, Didier Auriol, Sandro Munari, Bernard Darniche, Walter Röhrl, Björn...
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Championship three times: in 1977, 1978, and in 1980. With this car Markku Alen won the 1978 FIA Cup for Drivers and Walter Röhrl won the 1980 drivers'...
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winners According to World Rally Archive (http://www.juwra.com), Alén won 821 stages. Markku Alén also won special stages in the following rallies that are not...
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Look up Markku in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Markku is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Markku Alén (born 1951), Finnish former...
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1978 World Rally Championship FIA Cup for Drivers Champion: Markku Alén World Manufacturers' Champion: Fiat Previous 1977 Next 1979 The 1978 World Rally...
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Delta S4 would be in the hands of the Finnish prodigy Henri Toivonen and Markku Alén, and Ford was ready with its high tech RS200 with Stig Blomqvist and...
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winning the title with plenty of room to spare. Italian Miki Biasion, Finn Markku Alén and Frenchman Bruno Saby returned to the team, while other successful...
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included an FIA Cup for Drivers, won by Italy's Sandro Munari and Finland's Markku Alén respectively. Sweden's Björn Waldegård became the first official world...
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season-ending Olympus Rally in the United States, Lancia's Markku Alén led Kankkunen by one point. Although Alén beat Kankkunen to the win, he was the world champion...
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champion Walter Röhrl was added from Martini Racing. Lancia Martini kept Markku Alén as their primary driver for the season and also featured Miki Biasion...
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Sport 037 met with little success, even in the hands of such drivers as Markku Alén, Massimo Biasion, and Henri Toivonen. Toivonen would suffer an accident...
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adopting the Lancia Delta HF 4WD, driven by Finns Juha Kankkunen and Markku Alén as well as Italian Miki Biasion. Between the three, Lancia would gather...
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A Impreza rally car, known as the Impreza 555, driven by Vatanen and Alén. Alén crashed on the first stage, and did not drive for Subaru again. Vatanen...
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4WD proved fast and reliable in the hands of returning drivers Finn Markku Alén and Italian Miki Biasion. During the season, the car was replaced by...
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musicologist Juha Alén (born 1981), Finnish ice hockey player Markku Alén (born 1951), Finnish racing driver Alén Diviš (1900–1956), Czech artist Alen (given name)...
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Monte-Carlo 1977 Sandro Munari Silvio Maiga 13 20º Rallye Sanremo 1978 Markku Alén Ilkka Kivimäki 14 26º RACE Rallye de España 1978 Tony Carello 15 47ème...
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category. He drove for the manufacturer Iveco team, alongside team-mate Markku Alén. In 2007, he was part of the manufacturer Fiat team, running the diminutive...
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The most successful driver in the history of the rally is Finland's Markku Alén, who has won the event five times (1975, 1977, 1978, 1981 and 1987)....
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of Finnish athletes of the 1970-90s, especially rally drivers such as Markku Alén and Tommi Mäkinen. Rally English stems from the significant phonological...
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25m 59s 2 Hannu Mikkola Jean Todt Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye 6h 29m 05s 3 Markku Alén Ilkka Kivimäki Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye 6h 29m 46s 44ème Rallye Automobile...
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