Massimo 'Miki' Biasion, of Italy, is a one-time international rally driver and champion. Rally refers to competition, as in rally racing with automobiles a political rally, a march or parade e. ...

Biasion was drafted in to play a key role for the Lancia World Rally Championship team in the mid-1980s as the squad sought to regroup after previous star driver Henri Toivonen's fatal crash. He was to go on to dominate Group A rallying, taking the world championship in the years 1988 and 1989. At his peak, Biasion was notching victories in almost three quarters of all events he entered. Lancia is an Italian automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia, part of the Fiat group since 1969. ... The World Rally Championship (WRC) is a series of automobile rally races across the world, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Henri Toivonen (August 25, 1956 – May 2, 1986) was a Finnish rally car driver. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He was never to quite parallel that level of success again, and with the arrival of Carlos Sainz Biasion's career began to falter. Later a driver for Ford in that same series, he quietly withdrew from the world scene at the end of the 1994 season. Carlos Sainz, born 12 April 1962, has been a rally driver since 1980, and competed in the World Rally Championship since 1987. ... Ford may mean a number of things: A ford is a river crossing. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...