Xavier Pons
- January 9, 2024
- Racer
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Xavier Pons Biography
| Name | Xavier Pons |
| Birthday | Jan 21 |
| Birth Year | 1980 |
| Birth Country | Spain |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Xavier Pons is one of the most popular and richest Racer who was born on January 21, 1980 in Spain. Xavier “Xevi” Pons Puigdillers (born 21 January, 1980) is a Spanish rally driver who participated at the World Rally Championship from 2003 to 2014.
Pons the 2005 season featured 11 rallies using the World Rally Car and four with the production class rally vehicle. In the Peugeot the 206 WRC, as well as an Citroen Xsara WRC, he placed in the top two times. His best finish was fourth during the Rally Catalunya. Seven points earned him 16th place for the general championship.
After failing to land a drive in a competitive team for the 2007 season, Pons announced that he will be withdrawing from competing in the WRC. However, he vowed to stay in shape, should an opportunity arise for 2008 or for the later 2007 season. The opportunity soon came halfway through the 2007 season as the Subaru World Rally Team signed on Xevi Pons to drive a third car on the remaining events on the 2007 schedule, and contest a full schedule for Subaru in 2008 with an option for Subaru to keep his services in 2009. Despite this, Pons never did return to the Subaru for 2008. Instead, he competed on Spanish national rallies.
In 2010, Pons returned to the WRC in the newly formed SWRC class, driving a Ford Fiesta S2000 for the Nupel Global Racing team. He won his debut S2000 event in Rally Mexico. Pons also won second S2000 event in row by winning in Jordania. In both occasions, he also finished on WRC points. Pons finally won the Super 2000 World Rally Championship in 2010.
Pons the best finish in a rally around the world is fourth. This is something he’s accomplished five times: in 2005, he was fourth in the Rally Catalunya, and in 2006, at Rally New Zealand. Rally d’Italia Sardegna, Rally of Turkey, Rally Australia and Rally New Zealand.
Xavier Pons Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Racer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Xavier Pons is one of the richest Racer from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Xavier Pons 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Pons began his racing career with motorcycles. He took home the Spanish enduro championship back in 1998. The in the year before, he also competed in his Spanish junior team in the International Six Days Enduro and took home the Junior World Trophy. The team was among the winning Spanish team in 2000. He continued to race during the Spanish enduro championships and was runner-up in 2001 and 2000 and also won his participation in the European Championship and World Enduro Championship.
The year 2002 was the time that Pons changed to rallying in 2002, and he won his first Spanish National Rally Group N championship in gravel the next year. At the championship for asphalt in Spain the Spaniard was second. He also made his debut at the World Rally Championship at the 2003 Swedish Rally. In 2004 Pons took part in both his Junior World Rally Championship and the Production World Rally Championship. In the championship for production cars Pons won two times and was 4th overall on the rankings. In the junior category, He was ranked ninth overall and his best result was second during the Acropolis Rally. He also earned his first points at the World Rally Championship by finishing sixth in Rally Australia. Rally Australia.
For the 2006 season, Pons signed up for a full WRC season with Kronos Total Citroën, partnering the two-time World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb. By the ninth event of the season, Rallye Deutschland, he had gathered only 11 points so the team decided to replace him with Dani Sordo as the second driver to collect manufacturers’ points. Pons still failed to impress the team, and when Loeb was injured and could not compete at the Rally of Turkey, Kronos hired Colin McRae to stand in. However, at Turkey, Pons finished fourth. He was then promoted to Kronos’ second seat again and he went on to finish fourth in Australia and New Zealand and fifth in the final race of the season; the Wales Rally Great Britain. With 32 points, he placed seventh overall in the championship.
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Xavier Ranked on the list of most popular Racer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Spain. Xavier Pons celebrates birthday on January 21 of every year.