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Co-driver is the term given to the navigator of rally car in the sport of rally racing, who sits in the front passenger seat. The co-driver's job is to navigate, by reading off a set of
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to the driver, often over a radio headset, due to the high level of noise in the car. The co-driver tells the driver what lies ahead, where to turn, the severity of the turn, and what obstacles to look out for. Co-drivers are also often called on to perform maintenance on the car during road sections and
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s, such as changing a wheel.
Famous co-drivers
- Björn Cederberg
Björn Cederberg , nicknamed "Kapten" , was a notable Swedish rally co-driver. His most famous and successful partnership was with Stig Blomqvist, in a Saab 99 Turbo, with whom he shared success in a number of international motor rallies, from 1979-1982...
- Sergio Cresto
Sergio Cresto was the co-driver of Henri Toivonen at the Lancia Martini team for the 1986 World Rally Championship season. He was also a former co-driver for fellow Lancia employee, the Italian driver Attilio Bettega....
- Mike Doughty
Mike Doughty is a former Kenyan rally co-driver best known for his work with Shekhar Mehta in the 1970s.- External links :* , Rallybase.nl...
- Daniel Elena
Daniel Elena is a Monegasque rally co-driver, currently working with Sébastien Loeb. Between them, the pair have won the World Rally Championship eight times, and currently compete with the Citroën DS3 WRC...
- Sean Galael
- Fred Gallagher
Fred Gallagher is a World Rally Championship winning co-driver and motorsport personality.-Career:Gallagher's first WRC rally was the 1975 RAC Rally alongside Norwegian driver John Haugland in a Škoda 120...
- Denis Giraudet
- Nicky Grist
Nicky Grist is a Welsh former rally co-driver, born in Ebbw Vale. His factory team career in the World Rally Championship lasted from 1993 to 2002. He won 21 rallies and one World championship titles, with more than one driver....
- Seppo Harjanne
Seppo Harjanne is a Finnish former rally co-driver. He is best known for co-driving for Timo Salonen from 1979 to 1988 and for Tommi Mäkinen from 1990 to 1997. With Salonen, Harjanne took ten World Rally Championship victories for the factory teams of Datsun, Peugeot and Mazda, and the 1985...
- Arne Hertz
Arne Hertz was a Swedish co-driver in motor rallying.His name first became prominent when co-driving for Stig Blomqvist , with whom he first won the RAC Rally, in 1971. With Blomqvist, in the same year, he also won the Hankiralli, the Swedish Rally and the 1000 Lakes Rally...
- Denis Jenkinson
Denis Sargent Jenkinson , Jenks or DSJ as he was known in the pages of Motor Sport, was a journalist deeply involved in motorsports...
- Lee McKenzie
Lee McKenzie is a reporter for BBC's Formula One coverage. McKenzie is also a presenter for Sky Sports and Sky Sports News. McKenzie is the daughter of Bob McKenzie, the well known sport and motorsport journalist....
- Ilkka Kivimäki
- Gino Macaluso (owner of Girard-Perregaux
Girard-Perregaux is a high-end Swiss watch manufacture with its origins dating back to 1791. It is situated in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland and is a part of the Sowind group, a subsidiary of PPR.- History :...
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- Risto Mannisenmäki
Risto Mannisenmäki is a former rally co-driver and two-times world champion with driver Tommi Mäkinen.Mannisenmäki begun his career in 1982 and was co-driving for various drivers such as Tommi Mäkinen, Sebastian Lindholm and Ari Mökkönen in local rallies...
- Tony Mason
Tony Mason is a British former rally co-driver and television presenter. In 1972, he navigated the late Roger Clark to victory in the RAC Rally and the team also finished second in the event twice in 1974 and 1975, the only British crew to do so in a period spanning 35 years...
- Phil Mills
Phil Mills is a Welsh rally racing co-driver. He was winner of the 2003 World Rally Championship , as co-driver to Petter Solberg....
- Luís Moya
Luis Rodríguez Moya, better known as Luis Moya is a now-retired rally co-driver, synonymous with the driver Carlos Sainz...
- Bernard Occelli
- Michael Park
Michael Park was a rally co-driver from Newent in Gloucestershire.One of the top co-drivers of his generation, Park died as a result of injuries sustained in an accident on the final leg of Wales Rally Great Britain when his Peugeot 307 WRC left the road and struck a tree...
- Maurizio Perissinot
Maurizio Perissinot was an Italian rally co-driver, mainly for Attilio Bettega.He survived the tragic accident at the 1985 Tour de Corse which claimed the life of Bettega....
- Juha Piironen
- Fabrizia Pons
- Timo Rautiainen
Timo Rautiainen is a Finnish former rally co-driver. He is best known for co-driving for Marcus Grönholm from 1995 to 2007. Rautiainen and Grönholm drove for Peugeot and Ford in the World Rally Championship, and won 30 world rallies and two drivers' world championship titles together...
- Robert Reid
- David Richards
David Pender Richards CBE is the chairman of Prodrive and Aston Martin, and a former team principal of the BAR and Benetton Formula One motor racing teams. He lives with his wife, Karen, in Warwickshire and has three children....
- Derek Ringer
Derek Ringer is a Scottish rally co-driver. He is most closely associated with Colin McRae, with whom he won the 1995 World Rally Championship....
- Tiziano Siviero
- Tina Thörner
- Jean Todt
Jean Todt was born on February 25, 1946, in Pierrefort, Cantal, France. After a successful career as a rally co-driver he made his reputation in motor sport management, first with Peugeot Talbot Sport, then with Scuderia Ferrari, before being appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ferrari from 2004...