Aaron Burkart

Aaron Burkart

Burkart at the 2008 Rallye Deutschland.
Personal information
Nationality	German
Born	September 20, 1982
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2003–present
Rallies	33
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	0
Total points	1
First rally	2003 Rallye Deutschland

Aaron Nikolai Burkart (born 20 September 1982 in Singen, Baden-Württemberg) is a German rally driver. He is the 2010 Junior World Rally Champion.

Career

Burkart began rallying in 2002. In 2006, he began competing in the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) in a Citroën C2 S1600. In Burkart's first event in the championship the 2006 Rally Catalunya, his co-driver Jörg Bastuck was killed after being hit by the Ford Fiesta of Barry Clark while changing a wheel on Burkart's car.^[1] Undeterred by these events, Burkart completed the season with another co-driver. In 2008, Burkart finished second in the JWRC standings behind fellow Citroen driver Sébastien Ogier. Burkart switched to a Suzuki Swift S1600 for the 2009 season, taking his first JWRC victory on Rally Ireland, finishing the season in third position. Burkart made his debut in a World Rally Car on 2009 Rally GB for the Citroën Junior Team, finishing in 12th. On the 2010 Rally of Turkey, Burkart won the JWRC division and also finished in tenth place overall, scoring himself a WRC point. He went on to score two further JWRC podiums and won the Junior World Rally Championship for Suzuki by four points over Citroën driver Hans Weijs, Jr. in a thrilling, down-to-the-wire battle at the final rally in Spain.^[2]

WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2003	Aaron Burkart	Volkswagen Polo GTI	MON	SWE	TUR	NZL	ARG	GRE	CYP	GER Ret	FIN	AUS	ITA	FRA	ESP	GBR			NC	0
2004	Aaron Burkart	Peugeot 106 S16	MON	MEX	NZL	CYP	GRE	TUR	ARG	FIN	GER Ret	JPN	GBR	ITA	FRA	ESP	AUS		NC	0
2005	Aaron Burkart	Citroën Saxo S1600	MON	SWE	MEX	NZL	ITA 37	CYP	TUR	GRE	ARG	FIN	GER Ret	GBR	JPN	FRA	ESP	AUS	NC	0
2006	Aaron Burkart	Citroën Saxo S1600	MON Ret																NC	0
		Citroën C2 S1600		SWE	MEX	ESP Ret	FRA 28	ARG	ITA 23	GRE	GER 23	FIN	JPN		TUR 31	AUS	NZL	GBR 24
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII												CYP Ret
2007	Aaron Burkart	Citroën C2 S1600	MON	SWE	NOR 38	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA 18	GRE	FIN 57	GER 20	NZL	ESP 30	FRA 25	JPN	IRE	GBR	NC	0
2008	Aaron Burkart	Citroën C2 S1600	MON	SWE	MEX 12	ARG	JOR	ITA 19	GRE	TUR	FIN 28	GER 22	NZL	ESP 20	FRA 26	JPN	GBR		NC	0
2009	Aaron Burkart	Suzuki Swift S1600	IRE 16	NOR	CYP 20	POR	ARG 15	ITA 17	GRE	POL	FIN 19	AUS	ESP 37						NC	0
	Citroën Junior Team	Citroën C4 WRC												GBR 12
2010	Aaron Burkart	Suzuki Swift S1600	SWE	MEX	JOR	TUR 10	NZL	POR 32	BUL	FIN	GER 26	JPN	FRA 36	ESP 26	GBR				26th	1
2011	M-Sport Stobart Ford World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA	ARG	GRE	FIN	GER 23	AUS	FRA						NC	0
	Aaron Burkart	Ford Fiesta S2000												ESP 19	GBR

JWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Pos.	Points
2006	Aaron Burkart	Citroën C2 S1600	SWE	ESP Ret	FRA 7	ARG	ITA 5	GER 6	FIN	TUR 12	GBR 3	12th	15
2007	Aaron Burkart	Citroën C2 S1600	NOR 5	POR	ITA 4	FIN 14	GER 4	ESP 7	FRA 7			7th	18
2008	Aaron Burkart	Citroën C2 S1600	MEX 4	JOR	ITA 3	FIN 4	GER 2	ESP 3	FRA 5			2nd	34
2009	Aaron Burkart	Suzuki Swift S1600	IRE 1	CYP 3	POR	ARG 2	ITA 3	POL	FIN 4	ESP 5		3rd	39
2010	Aaron Burkart	Suzuki Swift S1600	TUR 1	POR 3	BUL	GER 2	FRA 5	ESP 4				1st	80

PWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos.	Points
2006	Aaron Burkart	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII	MON	MEX	ARG	GRE	JPN	CYP Ret	AUS	NZL	NC	0

References

1. "Co-driver dies in rally accident". BBC Sport. 24 March 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
2. "Burkart's title dream comes true". North One Sport. 24 October 2010. Archived from the original on 1 December 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2010.

External links

• Official website