Birthplace:
Dolgellau, Wales
Elfyn Evans
Born: December 28,1988
Team: Toyota Gazoo Racing
Height: 184cm
First WRC win: Wales Rally GB 2017
First WRC
season: 2007
World Rally Championship wins
8
First WRC victory
2017
WRC podiums
35
World Rally Championship 2024 performance
STATISTICS
Power of first rally car, a Nissan Micra
50bhp
Best WRC championship position
2nd
Instagram followers
100,800
Twitter followers
51,000
INTERESTING INFO
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Elfyn won the Autosport International Rally Driver Award in 2020
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His dad Gwyndaf is a former winner of the British Rally Championship
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Elfyn was the first ever British driver to win Rally Sweden and his victory in the 2020 event saw him top the World Rally Championship for the first time in his career
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He was the first Welsh driver to win Wales Rally GB
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His grandad taught him to drive when he was 8
When Elfyn Evans scored his maiden WRC victory on the 2017 Wales Rally GB in a state-of-the-art M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC, it was just 11 years after he’d made his rally debut in a little Nissan Micra!
His rise from service manager in the family garage business to one of the world’s top professional rally drivers has been rapid – and it’s been achieved through hard work and determination.
Inspired by his father, former British rally champion Gwyndaf Evans, Elfyn does everything to a very high professional level, but doesn’t live the superstar lifestyle in Monaco – preferring his natural surroundings of beautiful mid-Wales on his days off. But don’t let his modesty fool you – he’s as competitive as any driver in the WRC and he has one aim; to be World Champion.