Rally Monte Carlo: Swiss classic car at the top š„
FINALLY A COMEBACK With a Lancia Fulvia CoupƩ, a Swiss team won the Rally Monte-Carlo Historique, an event in the footsteps of the famous role model - 51 years after the victory of the Italians Munari and Mannucci.
In January 1972, the Italian factory team Sandro Munari and Mario Mannucci won the Rally Monte-Carlo with a Lancia Fulvia CoupƩ. Now a Lancia Fulvia CoupƩ won the Rally Monte-Carlo Historique. The Swiss team of Claudio Enz and Cristina Seeberger collected the fewest penalty points on the 16 regularity stages in a Lancia Fulvia CoupƩ Rallye 1.3 S from 1970. The duo from Team Kessel prevailed against some 300 competitors, including almost 30 Lancia brand colleagues.
From very elegant to quite aggressive
Successor models of the Fulvia CoupƩ on the rally tracks were the Stratos, the 037 Rally and the Delta. A total of 15 titles went to Lancia in the World Rally Championship in both brand and drivers' championships. The Fulvia CoupƩ model is one of the icons in the brand's history. While the production version presented at the Geneva Motor Show in 1965 was an elegant and comfortable vehicle, the rally variant had a more aggressive look.
The Fulvia CoupƩ made its debut in rally racing in 1965 at the Tour de Corse in Corsica. In 1966, Lancia presented the first model with the name suffix HF. The abbreviation stands for High Fidelity and expresses the motto of the brand club at the time, to which only the most loyal customers were admitted.
Victory in Monte Carlo the highlight
The Lancia Fulvia CoupƩ 1.2 HF was followed in 1967 by the Fulvia Coupe 1.3 HF model, before in 1968 the highest-displacement 1.6 HF variant delighted sporty drivers on the road as much as rally drivers. Victory in the Monte Carlo Rally in 1972 by Munari and Mannucci was ultimately the sporting highlight for this model.
