Fulvio Bacchelli

{{Short description|Italian rally driver (born 1951)}}

{{Infobox WRC driver

| name = Fulvio Bacchelli

| image =

| caption =

| nationality = {{flagicon|Italy}} Italian

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|01|22}}

| birth_place = Trieste

| Years = 19731982

| Co-driver = {{flagicon|ITA}} Francesco Rossetti
{{flagicon|ITA}} Bruno Scabini
{{flagicon|ITA}} Arnaldo Bernacchini
{{flagicon|ITA}} Paolo Spollon

| Teams = Fiat

| Races = 16

| Championships = 0

| Wins = 1

| Podiums = 2

| Stagewins = 15

| Points = 0

| First race = 1973 Rallye Sanremo

| First win = 1977 Rally New Zealand

| Last race = 1982 Rallye Sanremo

}}

Fulvio Bacchelli (born 22 January 1951 in Trieste) is a former Italian rally driver, who won Rally New Zealand in 1977, a round of the World Rally Championship.

Career

Bacchelli began rallying in 1971. In 1974, he joined the works Fiat team, finishing sixth on that year's Tour de Corse. He finished fourth in the 1975 Monte Carlo Rally. In 1977, he won Rally New Zealand, or the South Pacific Rally as it was then known, in his Fiat 131 Abarth.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rallybase.nl/index.php?type=profile&driverid=5830|title=RallyBase}} At the end of the year Fiat and Lancia's rally departments merged and he lost his factory drive.

WRC victories

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!Event

!Season

!Co-driver

!Car

1

|{{flagicon|New Zealand}} 8th South Pacific Rally

|1977

|Francesco Rossetti

|Fiat 131 Abarth

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