Phil Mills is a Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 rally racing co-driver

Co-driver

Co-driver is the term given to the navigator of rally car in the sport of rally racing, who sits in the front passenger seat. The co-driver's job is to navigate, by reading off a set of pacenotes to the driver, often over a radio headset, due to the high level of noise in the car...

. He was winner of the 2003 World Rally Championship

World Rally Championship

The World Rally Championship is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. The series currently consists of 13...

 (WRC), as co-driver to Petter Solberg

Petter Solberg

Petter "Hollywood" Solberg , from Spydeberg in Østfold, Norway, is a professional rally driver. He debuted in the World Rally Championship in 1998 and was signed by the Ford factory team in 1999...

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He has a place in the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame

Welsh Sports Hall of Fame

The Welsh Sports Hall of Fame is a charitable organization created to commemorate the sporting achievements and preserve the artifacts of Welsh athletes. It was established in 1980 from the memorabilia collection of Welsh radio announcer G. V. Wynne-Jones...

, as the first Welshman to win the Wales Rally. His first rally was in 1983, and his WRC debut in 1994. He joined Solberg in Ford in 1999, later moving with him to the Subaru World Rally Team

Subaru World Rally Team

The Subaru World Rally Team was Subaru's World Rally Championship team. It used a distinctive blue with yellow color scheme that is a throwback to the sponsorship deal with State Express 555, a BAT cigarette brand popular in Asia. 555 logos were found on Subaru cars from 1993 to 2003...

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Lives with partner Helen and their children in Powys

Powys

Powys is a local-government county and preserved county in Wales.-Geography:Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire , and a small part of Denbighshire — an area of 5,179 km², making it the largest county in Wales by land area.It is...

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On 11 June 2010 Phil announced his immediate retirement from co - driving to concentrate on his motorsport preparation business.

Results

• 1984 class win in Wales Road Rally Championship
• 1992 and 1993 Welsh National Champion
• 1993 Team Co-ordinator for Ford at Rally GB
• 1996 2nd in British Championship with Mark Higgins, co-ordinated for M-Sport and Co-drives for Armin Schwarz in Corsika
• 1997 Wins British Rally Championship
• 1998 6th overall in WRC
• 1999 joins Petter Solberg at Ford, 18th in WRC
• 2000 both join Subaru - 10th in WRC
• 2001 10th in WRC
• 2002 wins Wales Rally GB and ends season 2nd overall
• 2003 World Rally Champion
• 2004 2nd in WRC
• 2005 2nd in WRC
• 2006 6th in WRC
• 2007 5th in WRC
• 2008 6th in WRC
• 2009 5th in WRC

Between 1988 and 1990 he co-drove in 88 rallies.

External links

• Subaru World Rally Team
• Phil Mills profile Phil Mills profile on wrc.com
• Phil's blog on ScoobyNet Phil Mills blog on ScoobyNet