74 Facts About Thierry Neuville

Thierry Neuville helped Hyundai win their first manufacturers' title in 2019, as well as repeating the feat in 2020.

Thierry Neuville won his first World Rally Championship event, as well as Hyundai's first, at the 2014 Rallye Deutschland.

Thierry Neuville finished the 2014 and 2015 seasons in sixth place, but finished runner-up in the drivers' championship from 2016 to 2019.

In total, Thierry Neuville has won 21 world rallies, all for Hyundai.

Thierry Neuville has won on snow, winning the Rally Sweden in 2018 and he became one of the few non-Nordic drivers to win the event.

Thierry Neuville drove his first rally when he was 19 years of age, in 2007, his debut rally car was an Opel Corsa he piloted on an event in Luxembourg.

Thierry Neuville made his Intercontinental Rally Challenge debut in 2009 when he was handed a drive at the 2009 Ypres Rally by the BF Goodrich Drivers Team in a Peugeot 207 S2000.

Thierry Neuville crashed out of the rally while lying fourth.

Thierry Neuville drove a self-entered Citroen C2 S1600 in five of the six rounds of 2010 Junior World Rally Championship, alongside Klinger.

Thierry Neuville was a career-best third at his country event, the 2010 Ypres Rally.

Thierry Neuville finished the season in ninth place, collecting twelve points across his six events.

Thierry Neuville continued with the Peugeot Bel-Lux team in the 2011 Intercontinental Rally Challenge.

Thierry Neuville was the early pacesetter at the following 2011 Prime Yalta Rally but going off-road and a puncture meant the Belgian could only finish in sixth position.

In Hungary, the 2011 Mecsek Rallye, Thierry Neuville was just 0.8 seconds shy of winning the rally, behind winner Kopecky.

Thierry Neuville held the rally lead early on, but soon after, an issue with the alternator on his car developed and the Belgian had to retire.

The title eventually went to Andreas Mikkelsen, who won the rally, while Thierry Neuville finished fifth in the standings.

At the season opener in Monte Carlo, Thierry Neuville crashed out of the event early.

Thierry Neuville remained scoreless until the fourth round in Portugal where he finished in eight position.

Thierry Neuville's results had so far been plagued by the use of Rally 2-rules, his first error-free event was in Acropolis where he was sixth.

Thierry Neuville's season did not include New Zealand with the Citroen Junior Team, but as Nasser Al-Attiyah in the Qatar World Rally Team was injured and unable to compete, Thierry Neuville replaced him for the Qatari team in the event.

Thierry Neuville was battling for fifth place with fellow World Rally Car-rookie Ott Tanak, with Neuville eventually securing the position due to Tanak retiring.

Thierry Neuville scored no points in Finland after crashing from sixth place.

Thierry Neuville was running close of a podium finish in the following event in Germany, but, like in Finland, he was outside the points due to a crash.

Thierry Neuville returned to the points by finishing seventh in Wales.

Thierry Neuville was outside the points in Sardinia, as well as in Catalunya, the final event of the season, due to incidents on both rallies.

Thierry Neuville joined Qatar for the 2013 season, now driving a Ford Fiesta RS WRC.

Thierry Neuville retired for the third time in Rallye Monte-Carlo, after going off track on the third stage.

At Rallye Deutschland, which Thierry Neuville considers his home rally, the Belgian was in second place during the second day, trailing Jari-Matti Latvala just for a few seconds.

Thierry Neuville led the rally for a stage, but eventually, and in the second to last stage of the day, he lost the lead to Dani Sordo.

Thierry Neuville ended in second place, 53.0 seconds behind Sordo.

At Rally Australia, Thierry Neuville was in third place, 25.2 seconds behind Mikko Hirvonen, before the PowerStage.

Thierry Neuville rolled six times during the shakedown of the ADAC Rally of Germany, stopping in the vineyards.

Thierry Neuville started the 2015 season strongly, finishing fifth and second in Monte Carlo and Sweden respectively.

Thierry Neuville finished eighth in the third round in Mexico but had been battling for lead with Ogier during the first day before going off the road.

The 2016 season started with a podium in Monte Carlo, as Thierry Neuville finished third with a new rendition of the i20.

Bugalski, who died in 2012, was born on the same date Thierry Neuville won the rally, while Mondron had died two weeks before the rally.

On 5 October, it was confirmed Thierry Neuville would extend his deal with Hyundai until the end of 2018.

Thierry Neuville finished the season with five podiums out of the last five events, securing the position as runner up in the championship with 160 points.

Thierry Neuville finished the power stages in both rallies in first and third, still scoring eight points.

Thierry Neuville was third before the accident and in front of Ogier who was fourth after the first day.

Thierry Neuville aimed to salvage points on the Power stage but could only manage sixth fastest, meaning he would score no points for the first time in 2017.

Thierry Neuville retook second place in the driver's standings in Wales, as he finished the rally in second position while Tanak finished sixth.

Unable to match the pace set by rally winner Elfyn Evans, who used DMACK tyres, Thierry Neuville was the fastest of the drivers competing on Michelin.

Thierry Neuville finished ahead of Ogier, who was third, but the two extra points Ogier scored on the Power stage meant the Frenchman was crowned world champion for a fifth consecutive time.

At the final rally of the season in Australia, Thierry Neuville took his fourth win of the season.

The event was characterized by changeable conditions but after initial leader Andreas Mikkelsen suffered a double puncture, Thierry Neuville held off Latvala who was his closest challenger for most of the rally, the Finn eventually crashed on the last stage.

The win meant Thierry Neuville secured the runners-up spot in the standings for the third time in his career.

Just as in 2017, Thierry Neuville's season started with a mistake at the season opener in Monte Carlo.

The win meant Thierry Neuville became the third non-Nordic driver to win the Swedish Rally.

In Mexico, Thierry Neuville endured many technical issues with his i20 Coupe and achieved sixth as a result.

Thierry Neuville beat Ogier to the podium in Argentina when he finished second, but the rally was won by Tanak.

In Portugal, Thierry Neuville secured his eight win in the WRC and inherited the lead of the championship when both title rivals Ogier and Tanak hit trouble and scored zero points.

Ogier had led most of the Sardinian rally but Thierry Neuville eventually beat the Frenchman to the win on the very last stage with a margin of seven tenths of a second, equalling the third closest win in the WRC which was set by Thierry Neuville in Argentina, 2017.

Thierry Neuville lost the lead in the standings to Ogier when he finished fourth at the 2018 Rally Catalunya while Ogier was second, the result meant Ogier headed Neuville by three points in the championship.

Thierry Neuville punctured on the first day and dropped down to last place of the World Rally car drivers which meant he had to run first on the road on the second day.

Thierry Neuville finished as runner up in the standings for a third consecutive time and his fourth time overall.

Thierry Neuville battled with Ogier throughout the season opener in Monte Carlo and finished second, with Ogier taking the victory by a few seconds over the Belgian.

Thierry Neuville followed up the podium in Monte Carlo with another in Sweden, settling for the final podium position in a battle with Esapekka Lappi who was second, while rally was won by Tanak.

Thierry Neuville was victorious at the next event in Argentina while Ogier was third and Tanak eighth.

Thierry Neuville did not score big points in the next couple of events, in Sardinia and Finland, when he finished both events in sixth place.

Since Tanak was pulling away in the title fight, Thierry Neuville needed to beat the Estonian in the next event in Germany.

Thierry Neuville was battling with the points leader through the first leg as the pair were closely matched the whole leg.

Disaster struck on the second leg when Thierry Neuville had to change a puncture during a stage, a recovery drive afterwards saw Thierry Neuville finish fourth while Tanak could cruise to victory.

Thierry Neuville lost further ground in the title race in the following event in Turkey, as he rolled his car and could only finish eighth while Ogier won.

Tanak pulled further away when the Estonian won in Wales Rally GB while Thierry Neuville finished behind him in second.

In Spain, the penultimate round, Thierry Neuville had to win and finish well above Tanak to prevent Tanak from securing the title.

Thierry Neuville duly won the event, securing his twelfth win in the WRC.

Thierry Neuville started his seventh season with Hyundai by winning the Monte Carlo Rally, battling with Ogier and Evans throughout the rally.

Thierry Neuville led most of the next event in Turkey but had to settle for second after Evans due to a puncture on the final day.

Thierry Neuville was second again in the next event in Sardinia, finishing second in a close podium behind winner Sordo and ahead of Ogier in third.

Thierry Neuville started the season strongly, winning the season-opening Monte Carlo Rally and Acropolis Rally, and remained consistent throughout the campaign.

Thierry Neuville made his Touring car racing-debut in the 2019 ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship, driving a Hyundai i30 for Engstler Motorsport in two races at the Nurburgring as a guest driver.

In race one, Thierry Neuville took pole position, set the fastest lap, led every lap and won the race.

Thierry Neuville became a father on 8 July 2019, as he and his girlfriend Deborah Ghys have a daughter, Camille.