Lambros Athanassoulas

Lambros Athanassoulas (born November 10, 1976, in Athens) is a Greek rally driver.

Career Athanassoulas graduated from the American College of Greece and got a BEng in Mechanical Engineering and an M.A. in finance from the University of Westminster. He started racing in 2001, after winning a competition by Greek magazine 4 Wheels and Toyota Hellas. He followed this by winning his class on the 2009 Rally Catalunya on the debut of the new Ford Fiesta R2. He was named Greek Athlete of the Year at the end of 2009 by Status magazine.

Athanssoulas' first start in the highest class was the 2011 Acropolis Rally, when he presented strong pace, but due to retirement on the first leg and returning later under Rally2 rules classified only 19th. He returned to rallying in 2015 with the Skoda Fabia R5 and scored 3rd place in that year's Acropolis Rally, losing only to title contestants Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Craig Breen, he also led the rally at one point. In 2016, he took on the Rallye Monte-Carlo and finished 22nd overall, 8th in the WRC-2 class. Later that year, he contested both of the local ERC events - the 2016 Acropolis Rally, which he finished in second place (only behind the season's runner-up Ralfs Sirmacis) and the 2016 Cyprus Rally. After a long break, Athanassoulas returned once again in 2021. During the revived Acropolis Rally, Athanassoulas drove the Hyundai i20 N Rally2 and therefore became the first customer entry to use the car in World Rally Championship. However, the new car didn't bring him much luck, as he retired on SS3, but returned later. He scored 6th on the power stage, but after Yohan Rossel's disqualification advanced up to power stage place, which allowed him to score 1 point and classify in WRC-3 standings.

WRC results

PWRC results Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Pos. Points Lambros Athanassoulas Subaru Impreza WRX STi SWE ARG GRE TUR FIN NZL JPN GBR NC 0 Team Greece Škoda Fabia S2000 NOR CYP POR ARG ITA GRE AUS GBR 9th 10