Giandomenico Basso

Giandomenico Basso
Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1973-09-15) September 15, 1973
World Rally Championship record
Active years	1998–2006
Teams	Fiat / Abarth, Proton
Rallies	17 (as of 21 January 11)
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	0
Total points	0
First rally	1998 Rallye Sanremo

Giandomenico Basso (born 15 September 1973 in Montebelluna) is an Italian rally driver.

Rally career

Basso at the 2002 Rallye Deutschland

After competing in karting from 1981, Basso has been rallying since 1994.^[1] Basso has driven Fiats throughout his rallying career. He made his World Rally Championship debut on Rallye Sanremo in 1998, in a Fiat Seicento.^[2] In 2001 and 2002 he competed on WRC rounds in the Junior World Rally Championship in a Fiat Punto S1600, finishing fifth in 2001 and fourth in 2002.^[2] In 2006 Basso won the inaugural Intercontinental Rally Challenge and the European Rally Championship in a Fiat Grande Punto S2000 for Abarth.^[1] In 2007 he won the Italian Rally Championship.^[1] In 2009 he won again the European Rally Championship, driving an Abarth Grande Punto S2000.

Basso used to be co-driven by Flavio Guglielmini, who died in a crash on the European Championship round Rally Bulgaria in July 2009 as co-driver to Swiss driver Brian Lavio. Basso has also been co-driven by Luigi Pirollo and currently by Mitia Dotta.

WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC
1998	Giandomenico Basso	Fiat Seicento Sporting	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	ITA Ret	AUS	GBR				NC
1999	Giandomenico Basso	Fiat Cinquecento Sporting	MON 23	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	CHN	ITA	AUS	GBR			NC
2001	Top Run	Fiat Punto S1600	MON	SWE	POR	ESP 16	ARG	CYP	GRE Ret	KEN	FIN Ret	NZL	ITA Ret	FRA 15	AUS Ret				NC
2002	Giandomenico Basso	Fiat Punto S1600	MON Ret	SWE	FRA	ESP 21	CYP	ARG	GRE Ret	KEN	FIN	GER 21	ITA 16	NZL	AUS	GBR 24			NC
2006	Giandomenico Basso	Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000	MON	SWE	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG	ITA	GRE	GER	FIN	JPN	CYP	TUR 35	AUS	NZL	GBR	NC
2012	Proton Motorsport	Proton Satria Neo S2000	MON Ret	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	GER	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP				NC

JWRC Results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	JWRC	Points
2001	Top Run	Fiat Punto S1600	ESP 2	GRE Ret	FIN Ret	ITA Ret	FRA 3	GBR Ret	5th	10
2002	Giandomenico Basso	Fiat Punto S1600	MON Ret	ESP 3	GRE Ret	GER 7	ITA 2	GBR 3	4th	14

SWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	SWRC	Points
2012	Proton Motorsport	Proton Satria Neo S2000	MON Ret	SWE	POR	NZL	FIN	GBR	FRA	ESP	NC	0

IRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	WDC	Points
2006	Giandomenico Basso	Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000	RSA	YPR 1	MAD 1	ITA									1st	20
2007	Abarth & Co. SpA	Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000	KEN	TUR	BEL	RUS	POR 1	CZE	ITA 2	SWI	CHI				5th	18
2008	Abarth & Co. SpA	Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000	TUR Ret	POR 4	BEL 6	RUS 3	POR 2	CZE Ret	ESP 1	ITA 1	SWI 5	CHI			3rd	46
2009	Abarth & Co. SpA	Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000	MON 5	BRA 3	KEN	POR Ret	BEL 8	RUS 3	POR 1	CZE Ret	ESP 8	ITA	SCO		5th	28
2010	Abarth & Co. SpA	Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000	MON	BRA	ARG	CAN	ITA	BEL	AZO	MAD	CZE	ITA 7	SCO	CYP	36th	2
2011	Giandomenico Basso	Peugeot 207 S2000	MON 9												27th	5
2011	Proton Motorsport	Proton Satria Neo S2000		CAN 9	COR	YAL Ret	YPR Ret	AZO	ZLI 13	MEC Ret	SAN 10	SCO	CYP		27th	5

References

External links

Official website

Sporting positions
Preceded by None	Intercontinental Rally Challenge Champion 2006	Succeeded by Enrique García-Ojeda
Preceded by Renato Travaglia	European Rally Champion 2006	Succeeded by Simon Jean-Joseph
Preceded by Paolo Andreucci	Italian Rally Champion 2007	Succeeded by Luca Rossetti
Preceded by Luca Rossetti	European Rally Champion 2009	Succeeded by Luca Rossetti

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