Mirco Baldacci (born 19 September 1977) is a

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driver from

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, who scored two

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points by finishing seventh on the 2006 Rally Australia. His younger brother Loris Baldacci also raced in WRC from 2005 to 2008.

Career

Baldacci made his

debut on

Rallye Sanremo Rallye Sanremo is a rally competition held in Sanremo, Italy. Except for the 1995 event, the event was part of the FIA World Rally Championship schedule from 1973 to the 2003. It was a round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge and is current ...

in 2000 behind the wheel of a

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. In 2001, he contested five rounds of the

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in a

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. In 2002, he contested the

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in a Citroën Saxo S1600, finishing fourth in class on

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and 13th in the final standings. Baldacci switched to a

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for the 2003 JWRC, winning his class in Sanremo and ending the year fifth overall. For 2004 he switched to a

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, again finishing fifth overall. He also entered four other WRC events in a Group N Mitsubishi, finishing as high as tenth overall on

Rally Australia Rally Australia is an Rallying, automobile rally event which was held in Coffs Harbour as the final leg of the World Rally Championship (WRC) until 2018. First run in 1988, the rally was held in and around Perth, Western Australia until 2006. ...

. He used a Punto again in the 2005 JWRC, winning on the

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and finishing seventh in the final standings. Baldacci returned to the PWRC for 2006, using a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX, finishing third in the final standings. He finished second in PWRC in Australia, seventh overall. Switching to a

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for 2007, he ended the year sixth in PWRC. He returned to using an Evo IX in 2008, but four retirements from six rallies left him down in 11th overall.

WRC results

JWRC results

PWRC results

References

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