Armindo Araújo

Armindo Araújo

File:Acr2011 350.jpg Araújo and his Mini John Cooper Works WRC
Personal information
Nationality	Portuguese
Born	(1977-09-01) 1 September 1977
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2001, 2007–present
Teams	Ralliart Italy
Rallies	24
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	1
Total points	17
First rally	2001 Rally de Portugal

Armindo Araújo (born 1 September 1977) is a Portuguese rally driver. He won the Production World Rally Championship in the 2009 season, repeating the accomplishment in the next year (2010 season), to become the first pilot to ever win this cup twice in a row since its creation back in 2002.

Career

File:Lancer-Armindo Araujo-2007 Wales Rally GB 002.jpg

Araújo during the 2007 Rally GB.

Araújo began rallying in 2000, having raced motorcycles since 1994. Between 2000 and 2004 he used a Citroën Saxo on Portuguese national events, winning the National Championship in 2003 and 2004, before winning the title again in 2005 and 2006 using a Group N Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII.

In 2007 he began competing in the Production World Rally Championship (P-WRC), finishing 14th in the standings. In 2008 he finished eighth in the P-WRC standings. In 2009 he won the P-WRC class on Rally de Portugal, and two other podium finishes led to him winning the P-WRC.

Araújo is co-driven by Miguel Ramalho.

WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2001	Armindo Araújo	Citroën Saxo	MON	SWE	POR Ret	ESP	ARG	CYP	GRE	KEN	FIN	NZL	ITA	FRA	AUS	GBR			NC	0
2007	Mitsubishi Motors de Portugal	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	MON	SWE 20	NOR	MEX		ARG	ITA	GRE Ret	FIN	GER	NZL 18	ESP	FRA	JPN EX	IRE	GBR 23	NC	0
		Mitsubishi Lancer WRC 05					POR Ret
2008	Ralliart Italy	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	MON	SWE 17	MEX	ARG	JOR	ITA	GRE 16	TUR 16	FIN	GER	NZL 25	ESP	FRA	JPN 21	GBR 27		NC	0
2009	Ralliart Italy	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	IRE	NOR 16	CYP 10	POR 9	ARG	ITA 14	GRE 9	POL	FIN								NC	0
	Errani Team Group											AUS 13
	Ralliart Italy	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X											ESP	GBR 9
2010	Ralliart Italy	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	SWE 23		JOR 12	TUR	NZL	POR 14	BUL	FIN	GER 18	JPN	FRA 16	ESP	GBR 18				25th	1
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX		MEX 10
2011	Motorsport Italia/BAMP	Mini John Cooper Works S2000	SWE	MEX	POR Ret														23rd	5
		Mini John Cooper Works WRC				JOR	ITA 12	ARG	GRE Ret	FIN 20	GER 8	AUS	FRA Ret	ESP Ret	GBR 10
2012	Armindo Araújo World Rally Team	Mini John Cooper Works WRC	MON 10																15th	11
	WRC Team Mini Portugal			SWE 15	MEX 7	POR 15	ARG Ret	GRE 11	NZL 8	FIN 15	GER	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP

PWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Pos.	Points
2007	Mitsubishi Motors de Portugal	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	SWE 4	MEX	ARG	GRE Ret	NZL 6	JPN EX	IRE	GBR 7		14th	10
2008	Ralliart Italy	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	SWE 7	ARG	GRE 3	TUR 5	FIN	NZL 12	JPN 9	GBR 7		8th	14
2009	Ralliart Italy	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	NOR 4	CYP 2	POR 1	ARG	ITA 3	GRE 2				1st	42
	Errani Team Group								AUS 4	GBR
2010	Ralliart Italy	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	SWE 3		JOR 2	NZL	FIN	GER 1	JPN	FRA 1	GBR 2	1st	126
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX		MEX 1

External links

• Official website