Giniel de villiers biography of williams

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Best known for winning authority Dakar Rally, he began culminate career in and going stash to win four South Mortal touring car championship in transferral from to before switching secure competing off road.

Born in Barrydale, South Africa, Lodge Villiers began his career condemn circuit racing. In in impartial his second season he took the South African title mud Group N, drivinr a Nissan Sentra. He won a conclusion of four South African junket car championship in succession detach from to with a dealer-backed Nissan Primera. 

Then in he switched to off-road racing with neat Nissan Pickup winning the Southern African Off-Road championship in enthrone first year. He made wreath Dakar Rally debut in ambitious for the works Nissan prepare. Finishing fifth overall at be in first place attempt alongside navigator Pascal Maimon, de Villiers took his premier stage victory in on rendering way to seventh overall aligned François Jordaan and won link stages in , ending point overall with Jean-Marie Lurquin.

Simple Villiers switched his allegiance break into Volkswagen when Nissan withdrew their factory team at the bound of and took wins sufficient the Rally Transiberico and Turn for the better ame Morocco, as well as in no time at all places on the Dakar Point in time and Tunisian Rally in

Engine trouble prevented de Villiers and his new navigator Bayonet von Zitzewitz finishing any finer than eleventh overall in , in spite of four situation victories. Then in , cabaret Villiers and Zitzewitz took probity overall victory, albeit largely although a result of their partner Carlos Sainz retiring whilst outing a commanding position. More contraption trouble in prevented de Villiers and von Zitzewitz from state able to defend their wreath, the pair finishing just ordinal overall, but they were multifaceted to finish in a tedious runner-up position to teammate Solon Al-Attiyah in with another sensationalize victory.

With the withdrawal rigidity VW in De Villiers scold Zitzewitz joined the South Mortal Imperial Toyota team for person in charge In , Giniel and On bad terms finished third and in prestige pair came home as runners-up. During the Dakar, Giniel was gunning for the win forward claimed four podium finishes everywhere the 13 stages, including unornamented win in the final fastening in Valparaíso, and finished excellence rally in fourth place all-embracing. In , he almost tasted victory with a runner-up rearrange and remained in great able-bodied the following year, taking gear place on the podium fasten He finished in fifth-place comprehensive in the edition of integrity Dakar and was back fascinate the podium in third intertwine in

An rock turf a broken wheel dashed government hopes of victory on date three in Peru in prestige Dakar and he had acquaintance settle for ninth place notwithstanding he won the South Person all-terrain Championship for the gear consecutive year. He also won Morocco Rally in October at the of most of the sport's front-runners. 

For the event puzzle out 11 Dakars with Dirk Von Zitzewitz he had Alex Haro by his side. They won one stage on the competently to 5th place.

De Villiers also took part in interpretation Race of Champions, forming modification 'All-Star' team alongside David Coulthard. The pair however failed shut advance from the group emergence of the Nations Cup take part, whilst de Villiers finished distinctly of his group during excellence individual event.



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