How many F1 drivers have moved over to the WRC with a works team?

[Andrew Gunnell]

I am not sure which section this should be in.
But, after the former Prost driver Stephane Sarrazin signed for the Subaru WRC team. How many F1 drivers have crossed over to the WRC?

[Silk Cut Jaguar]

I don't know the answer but I'm curious to hear it.

[Mekola]

I think Jacky Ickx is one of them. He won the Paris-Dakar in 1987.

[Mekola]

And almost forgot the one-off of Jim Clark with a Ford Cortina in... the 1964 RAC Rally? I'm in doubt about this.

[x_dt]

Former one-race Williams driver Jean-Louis Schlesser has been a fixture in the Paris-Dakar for years (don't know though if he's ever entered a WRC rally).

[Russfeld]

Sarrazin is more of a WRC driver than an F1 driver. One GP for Minardi does not a Prost driver make.

[mcurtis26]

Vic Elford won Monte Carlo one year

[BootsOntheSide]

Considering that Stephane spent his whoel early career in single seaters, won in F3000 (for the team Alain Prost supported), and spent 5 years as a regualr F1 tester, I'd say he's a F1 driver who switched to rallying, not the other way round. It's such a shame he never got a proper chance in F1, bur it could be WRC's gain.

[Kicking-back]

Indeed.

Stephane probably merited more from F1 than a solitary start - but he's done exceptionally well on his switch to rallying.

[Raglanparade]

Didnt Jean Alesi compete in some rally that included part of the Monza banking a few years back ?

[Kicking-back]

Yes.

But I think Sarrazin is the first to look at it as a serious career, rather than a fun event or one-off appearance.

[Raglanparade]

There have been some Minardi, Arrows, Tyrell and Jordan drivers through the 90's that that spent a lot of time racing cars through gravel.. Most of them funnily enough payed for the privelege too

[Nicholosophy]

Any pics from the Monza rally with the banking - particularly of the banking.

Would be good to see an semi-modern F1 driver on the banking - shame it's not an F1 car.

And don't start at me about safety - dreams and fantasies are always 100% safe

[429CJ]

Marc Surer drove some rallies, even was almost killed on accident, where his co-driver Michel Wyder lost his life on Hessen Rally 1986, when Surer's Ford RS 200 hit a tree and burst in flames. It was also the end of racing career for Surer.

[Super Tourer]

Martin Brundle ran in the RAC Rally one year, as did Mark Blundell.

[gfm]

Both Jim Clark and Graham Hill ran Lotus Cortinas in the RAC. A number of racers took part in rallying in the Fifties, but this was the period where racing drivers ran in a number of races in one day. I did read somewhere Moss did 7 races on a Brands Hatch card - this sometime before he needed Viagra.

[ensign14]

Henry Taylor moved from F1 in 1961 to rallying for Ford in 1962 and a successful career as manager there.

Namesake Mike had some privateer events in long-distance rallies in the late 60s and early 70s.

[Adam43]

Originally Posted by gfm

Both Jim Clark and Graham Hill ran Lotus Cortinas in the RAC. A number of racers took part in rallying in the Fifties, but this was the period where racing drivers ran in a number of races in one day.

Yes unfortunately they have to spend so long concentrating on one race to be competetive nowadays.

Originally Posted by gfm

I did read somewhere Moss did 7 races on a Brands Hatch card - this sometime before he needed Viagra.

So how are your performances, are they Stirling?

[rbs]

Derek Warwick drove a Subaru Impreza on one RAC and Derek Bell also took part one year in a Vauxhall Astra.

[Fiorentina 1]

Prost did a rally in an R5 turbo in the early 80's. Alesi did some rallying before F1. And, both Gilles Villeneuve and Patrese drove a Lancia in the Monza rally.

[rbs]

Carlos Reutemann is the only driver to score points in both F1 and the WRC.

[Alex Hodgkinson]

Didnt Mika Hakkinen do the British rally a few years ago?

[rbs]

MH usually competes on the Arctic Rally, I do not remember him on a British Rally.

Tom Pryce competed on some British rallies in "The Chequered Flag" Lancia Statos.

[429CJ]

Originally Posted by rbs

Carlos Reutemann is the only driver to score points in both F1 and the WRC.

Correct, two third places from his home rally, 1980 with Fiat 131 Abarth and in 1985 driving a Peugeot 205 T16.

[Patrese256]

Originally Posted by Fiorentina 1

both Gilles Villeneuve and Patrese drove a Lancia in the Monza rally.

Both these drivers did compete in the 1979 Giro d'Italia. Patrese won the event three times, but it was not strictly speaking a rally. The event was a mixture of circuit races and rally stages spread over a number of days with rally drivers also taking part. In 1979 Patrese shared a Lancia Beta Monte Carlo with Markku Alen and IIRC Villeneuve's 'team mate' was Walter Rohrl.