Fabrizia Pons

{{Infobox WRC driver

|name = Fabrizia Pons

|image =Fabrizia Pons e Michèle Mouton - Rallye Sanremo 1981 (Pons).jpg

|image_size =260 px

|alt =

|caption = Fabrizia Pons at the 1981 Sanremo Rallye

|nationality = {{flagicon|ITA}} Italian

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|06|26|df=y}}

|birth_place = Turin, Italy

|Years = 1976–1984, 1986, 1994, 1996–1998

|Races = 70{{efn|Pons has started 67 events as a co-driver and three as a driver.}}

|Championships = 0

|Wins = 5

|Podiums = 17

|Stagewins = 223

|First race = 1976 Rallye Sanremo

|First win = 1981 Rallye Sanremo

|Last win = 1997 Rally Monte Carlo

|Last race = 1998 Wales Rally GB

}}

Fabrizia Pons (born 26 June 1955) is an Italian rally co-driver best known for her partnership with Michèle Mouton.

Biography

The pair won four rallies with the Rallye Sanremo in 1981 and a further three to finish second in the 1982 championship. Pons is one of two people to have achieved world championship points as a driver and co-driver, having finished ninth overall in the 1978 Sanremo Rally before switching to co-driving. Pons is a recipient of the Halda Trophy for 1982, the highest honor for a co-driver.{{cite web|title=Fabrizia Pons – Art Vatanen Rally|url=http://www.arivatanenrally.com/en/co-drivers/fabrizia-pons.html|publisher=Ari Vatanen Rally}}{{cite web|title=Race4Change: Rallying for the Economic Empowerment of Women|url=http://www.race4change.org/team/rally-drivers-safari/fabrizia-pons|publisher=Race4Change|access-date=2012-06-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930175519/http://www.race4change.org/team/rally-drivers-safari/fabrizia-pons|archive-date=2017-09-30|url-status=dead}}

From 2003 to 2006, she was the co-driver to German Dakar Rally racer Jutta Kleinschmidt.

=Personal life=

Pons has two children and is from Turin.{{cite web|title=Fabrizia Pons |url=http://www.jutta-kleinschmidt.de/e/aktuell/2002/02_news_25.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114065931/http://www.jutta-kleinschmidt.de/e/aktuell/2002/02_news_25.html |archive-date=2007-11-14 }}