Shekhar Mehta WRC driver victories

Kampala, 1945 - 2006

The WRC driver Shekhar Mehta was born in Kampala (Uganda) in 1945 and died in 2006, at the age of 60 years.

Shekhar Mehta WRC rally victories

1973
Safari Rally   (Gravel)  Thu 19th - Mon 23rd Apr
1979
Safari Rally   (Gravel)  Thu 12th - Mon 16th Apr
1980
Safari Rally   (Gravel)  Thu 3rd - Mon 7th Apr
1981
Safari Rally   (Gravel)  Thu 16th - Mon 20th Apr
1982
Safari Rally   (Gravel)  Thu 8th - Mon 12th Apr

How many rallies has Shekhar Mehta won and on what surface?

Shekhar Mehta has won 5 rallies of the World Rally Championship:

• 5 on gravel.

What is the rally that Shekhar Mehta has won the most times?

5	Safari Rally (Gravel)

Shekhar Mehta biography in rallies

Shekhar Mehta was a rally driver of Ugandan birth but sporting Kenyan nationality. Five-time winner of the Safari Rally in the World Rally Championship and winner of the 1981 African Rally Championship, achieving three partial victories throughout the championship.

Mehta retired from competition in 1986 after a serious crash at the Rally of the Pharaohs in Egypt.
After his retirement he held various administrative positions in the FIA, becoming President of the Rally Commission in 1997 and in 2004 he was re-elected as President of the World Rally Championship after the resignation of Jacques Regis, the previous man in the position already held by Mehta.