Bruno Saby, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Bruno Saby

French racing driver

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1949

Place of Birth: La Tronche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Profession: rally driver

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Bruno Saby

  • Bruno Saby (born 23 February 1949 in Grenoble) is a rally driver from France. In 1981, Saby became French Rally Champion in a Renault 5 Turbo.
  • He drove for the works teams of Renault, Peugeot, Volkswagen and Lancia during his career in the World Rally Championship.
  • He took two World Rally Championship wins in his career—his first, driving a Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 E2, was in the 1986 Tour de Corse, in which Henri Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Cresto died.
  • His only other win was with Lancia in the 1988 Monte Carlo Rally. In 1978 Saby claimed the French Rallycross Championship title with an Alpine A110 1600.
  • In the 1988 French Rallycross Championship he drove a Lancia Delta S4 to become the runner-up to Champion Guy Fréquelin who drove a Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 Evo 2. He participated from 1992 to 2008 in cross country rallye and in the Dakar Rally, which he won in 1993 while driving for Mitsubishi.
  • Driving for Volkswagen, he won the 2005 FIA cross-country rallye world championship. He retired in July 2008.

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