Albert Llovera

Albert Llovera Massana (born 11 September 1966) is a rally driver and former alpine skier from Andorra. He became the youngest athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics in 1984 at the age of 17. A serious accident in 1985 left him paralysed from the waist down. He has since taken up rallying, using cars with specially adapted hand controls. He is currently competing in the Super 2000 World Rally Championship.

Career

At the age of 17, Llovera became the youngest ever athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics when he represented Andorra at the 1984 games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. In the following year, 1985, whilst competing in the European Ski Cup, also in Sarajevo, he suffered a serious accident which left him using a wheelchair with paraplegia beginning at lower back level.

Llovera turned to motorsport, first competing on quad bikes and then starting in rallying. In 1989, he won the Peugeot Rally Cup in Andorra. In 2001, with the support of Fiat, he began competing in the Junior World Rally Championship in a Fiat Punto S1600. He continued in the championship in 2002.

After competing in Spain along with selected WRC appearances, Llovera returned full-time to the world stage in 2010 to contest the Super 2000 World Rally Championship in a Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000. He finished fifth in class on his first event Rally Mexico. He scored a best overall result of 17th on Rally Catalunya, which was not a round of the SWRC.

Llovera continued in the SWRC in 2011, finishing fourth in the category in Jordan.

In 2020, Llovera competed in the Dakar rally in an Iveco truck from the Dutch Team de Rooy.

Complete WRC results Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 WDC Points 2001 Pronto Racing Fiat Punto S1600 MON SWE POR ESPRet ARG CYP GRERet KEN FIN79 NZL ITARet FRA39 AUS GBRRet NC 0 2002 Albert Llovera Fiat Punto S1600 MONRet SWE FRA ESP33 CYP ARG GRERet KEN FIN GERRet ITA33 NZL AUS GBR NC 0 2005 Albert Llovera Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII MON SWE MEX NZL ITA CYP TUR GRE ARG FIN32 GER GBR JPN FRA ESP AUS NC 0 2006 Albert Llovera Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII MON SWE MEX ESP36 FRA ARG ITA GRE GER FIN54 JPN CYP TUR AUS NZL GBR NC 0 2008 Albert Llovera Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 MON SWE MEX ARG JOR ITA GRE TUR FIN GER NZL ESPRet FRA JPN GBR NC 0 2009 PCR Sport Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 IRE NOR CYP POR ARG ITA GRE POL FIN AUS ESP42 GBR NC 0 2010 Albert Llovera Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 SWE MEX22 JOR TUR NZLRet POR41 BUL FINRet GER35 JPN FRA47 ESP17 GBR NC 0 2011 Albert Llovera Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 SWE MEX POR JOR17 ITARet ARG GRE24 FINRet GERRet AUS FRADNS ESP40 GBR NC 0 2012 PCR Sport Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 MON SWE MEX POR ARG GRE NZL FIN GER GBR FRA ITA ESPRet NC 0

JWRC Results Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 JWRC Points 2001 Pronto Racing Fiat Punto S1600 ESPRet GRERet FIN7 ITARet FRA13 GBRRet NC 0 2002 Albert Llovera Fiat Punto S1600 MONRet ESP12 GRERet GERRet ITA16 GBR NC 0

SWRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 SWRC Points 2010 Albert Llovera Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 SWE MEX5 JOR NZLRet POR10 FINRet GER8 JPN FRA9 GBR 13th 17 2011 Albert Llovera Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 MEX JOR4 ITARet GRE9 FINRet GERRet FRA ESP8 10th 18 2012 PCR Sport Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 MON SWE POR NZL FIN GBR FRA ESPRet NC 0