What German rally and auto racing driver, born on March 7, 1947 was beaten at the World Rally Championship while attempting to defend his title as World Champion?
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1983 World Rally Championship The 1983 World Rally Championship was the 11th season of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) World Rally Championship (WRC). The season consisted of 12 rallies. By this time, the schedule format had become generally stable, with only one or two changes to venues year to year. 1983 brought the return of Argentina to the schedule in place of Brazil. Audi's Hannu Mikkola beat the defending world champion Walter Röhrl and his Lancia teammate Markku Alén to the drivers' title. Lancia captured the manufacturers' title from Audi by just two points.
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Walter Röhrl Walter Röhrl (born 7 March 1947) is a German rally and auto racing driver, with victories for Fiat, Opel, Lancia and Audi as well as Porsche, Ford and BMW.
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Klaus Niedzwiedz Klaus Niedzwiedz (born February 24, 1951 in Dortmund, Germany) is a former professional race driver and motoring journalist.
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Carlos Sainz Carlos Sainz Cenamor (born 12 April 1962 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish rally driver. He won the World Rally Championship drivers' title with Toyota in 1990 and 1992 , and finished runner-up four times. Constructors' world champions to have benefited from Sainz are Subaru (1995 ), Toyota (1999 ) and Citroën (2003 , 2004 and 2005 ).
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2016 Rallye Deutschland The 2016 Rallye Deutschland (formally the 34. ADAC Rallye Deutschland) was the ninth round of the 2016 World Rally Championship. The race was held over three days between 19 August and 21 August 2016, and was based in Trier, Germany. Volkswagen's Sébastien Ogier won the race, his 35th win in the World Rally Championship.
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1957 1000km of Nürburgring The 3. Internationales ADAC 1000 Kilometer Rennen auf dem Nürburgring took place on 26 May 1957, on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, (West Germany). It was also the fourth round of the F.I.A. World Sports Car Championship. This would the first championship since the dreadful events in the Mille Miglia, Italy just a fortnight ago, where Alfonso de Portago crashed killing himself, his co-driver and nine spectators.
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Franz Wittmann Jr. Franz Wittmann (born October 27, 1983) is an Austrian rally driver. He is a regular competitor in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, driving a Peugeot 207 S2000, for Interwetten Racing. Wittmann's father, also called Franz, was also a rally driver, who won the 1987 Rally New Zealand, a round of the World Rally Championship.
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Günter Klass Günter "Bobby" Klass (13 June 1936 in Stuttgart – 22 July 1967 near Florence) was a versatile German racing driver, competing in hillclimbing, rallying, and the World Sportscar Championship as factory driver for Porsche and the Scuderia Ferrari.
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Emerson Fittipaldi Emerson Fittipaldi (] ; born 12 December 1946) is a semi-retired Brazilian automobile racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship and the Indianapolis 500 twice each and the CART championship once.
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2013 German Grand Prix The 2013 German Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Großer Preis Santander von Deutschland 2013) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 7 July 2013 at the Nürburgring in Nürburg, Germany. The race was the ninth round of the 2013 season, and marked the 74th running of the German Grand Prix overall, and the 60th running of the German Grand Prix since 1950, when the racing series now known as the Formula One World Championship was created. This is the earliest a German Grand Prix has been held in a calendar year, followed by the 1926 and the 2009 editions of the race.
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Manfred Stohl Manfred Stohl (born 7 July 1972 in Vienna) is an Austrian rally driver who debuted in the World Rally Championship in 1991. Stohl's co-driver is fellow Austrian Ilka Minor.
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1987 Paris–Dakar Rally 1987 Dakar Rally also known as the 1987 Paris–Dakar Rally was the 9th running of the Dakar Rally event. The rally was won by 1981 world rally champion, Ari Vatanen. Cyril Neveu won his fifth motorcycle title after Hubert Auriol broke both ankles in a fall and retired.
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2007 Rally New Zealand The 2007 Rally New Zealand ("37th Propecia Rally New Zealand"), 11th round of 2007 World Rally Championship, was run on 31 August to 2 September. After a tight battle for three days, Marcus Grönholm beat Sébastien Loeb for the win by 0.3 seconds, making it the second-closest finish in WRC history (after 2011 Jordan Rally's 0.2s). This was the closest finish in the history of the World Rally Championship. The previous record was held by the 1998 Rally de Portugal, in which Colin McRae took the win 2.1 seconds ahead of Carlos Sainz.
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Sven Müller (racing driver) Sven Müller (born February 7, 1992 in Mainz) is a German racing driver currently racing for Porsche Motorsport as a factory driver. He is the reigning Porsche Supercup champion during 2017.
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2016 Rally Poland The 2016 Rally Poland (formally the 73. PZM Rajd Polski) was the seventh round of the 2016 World Rally Championship. The race was held over four days between 30 June and 3 July 2016, and was based in Mikołajki, Poland. Volkswagen's Andreas Mikkelsen won the race, his 2nd win in the World Rally Championship.
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2000 FIA Formula One World Championship The 2000 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 54th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 2000 FIA Formula One World Championship which commenced on 12 March 2000, and ended on 22 October after seventeen races. Michael Schumacher became Ferrari's first World Drivers' Champion for 21 years having clinched the Drivers' title at the penultimate race of the season. Ferrari successfully defended its Constructors' title. This season marked the first for future world champion Jenson Button.
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Opel Rally Team Opel Rally Team was an auto racing team by German car manufacturer Opel. It competed at the World Rally Championship from 1982 to 1990. Walter Röhrl won the drivers championship in 1982 with Opel.
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Václav Pech Václav Pech (born 3 December 1976) is a Czech professional rally driver. He has won multiple Czech Rally Championships and winner of six rallies of European Rally Championship.
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Thomas Schie Thomas Schie (born 1 December 1975 in Oslo) is a former racing and rally driver. He previously competed in the International Formula 3000, Swedish Touring Car Championship and World Rally Championship.
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Ralf Schumacher Ralf Schumacher (born 30 June 1975) is a German former racing driver. He is the younger brother of seven-time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher and the pair are the only siblings to win Formula One races.
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1958 German Grand Prix The 1958 German Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on 3 August 1958 at Nürburgring. It was race 8 of 11 in the 1958 World Championship of Drivers and race 7 of 10 in the 1958 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.
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Mats Jonsson (rally driver) Mats Jonsson (born November 28, 1957) is a rally driver from Sweden. He competed in the World Rally Championship from 1984 to 1993, with a best position of 12th overall in the 1991 season. His greatest individual events were in his home Swedish Rally, which he won outright in successive years in 1992 and 1993.