Three-time WRC winner Dani Sordo returned to Hyundai's Rally1 programme in 2026 after winning the Portuguese championship, ending the season with Patricia Sáiz Ruiloba.
Key Facts
Nationality
ESP
Date of birth
02.05.1983
Birthplace
Torrelavega, Spain
Co-driver
Cándido Carrera
First WRC rally
2003, Rally Catalunya
First WRC stage win
2006, Rally Catalunya SS10
WRC stage wins
229
First WRC podium
2006, Rally Catalunya
WRC podiums
58
First WRC win
2013, Rallye Deutschland
WRC wins
3
First WRC Wolf Power Stage win
2012, Rally de Portugal
WRC Wolf Power Stage wins
5
Best overall WRC season result
3rd (2008-09)
WRC support category titles
2005 Junior WRC
Previous teams
Citroën, Mini, M-Sport Ford
Website
www.danielsordo.com/
About Dani Sordo
Dani Sordo's WRC career has spanned more than two decades, three outright victories and 58 podiums. The Spaniard returned to Hyundai's Rally1 programme for selected events in 2026 after winning the Portuguese championship the previous year.
Sordo made his first WRC appearance in 2003 and won the Junior WRC title in 2005. A Citroën World Rally Car seat followed, bringing regular podiums and third in the championship in both 2008 and 2009. After a spell with MINI, he returned to Citroën and claimed his first outright victory in Germany in 2013.
He joined Hyundai for its WRC return in 2014 and became a long-serving member of the team. Victories in Sardinia in 2019 and 2020 confirmed his strength on the island's demanding gravel roads.
Sordo spent 2025 winning the Portuguese title with Cándido Carrera in a Hyundai i20 N Rally2 before returning to Rally1 in 2026. Carrera joined him in the Canary Islands, Portugal and Greece, while Patricia Sáiz Ruiloba made her WRC debut alongside him at the Sardinia finale. Their event ended in retirement.
