Harry Källström, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish rally driver
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Place of Birth: Södertälje, Sweden
About Harry Källström
- Harry Källström (30 June 1939 – 13 July 2009), nicknamed "Sputnik" , was a Swedish professional rally driver who debuted in 1957 and competed in the World Rally Championship in the 1970s.
- Prior to the forming of the WRC, Källström won the RAC Rally in a Lancia Fulvia 1.6 Coupé HF in 1969 and 1970.
- In 1969, he also captured the European Rally Championship title. Partnered with Claes-Göran Andersson, and driving a Datsun 160J, he took his only World Rally Championship victory at the 1976 Acropolis Rally Greece.
- At the same rally and in the same car, he finished third in 1977 and 1979. His fourth podium appearance in the world championship was a second place at the 1973 Safari Rally in a Datsun 1800 SSS.
- This was the first WRC event to end in a dead heat; he and Shekhar Mehta ended on the same penalty points (6 hours and 46 minutes) but Mehta was awarded the win due to being the fastest in the opening stages.
- At the 1985 Rallye Côte d'Ivoire, Toyota teammates Juha Kankkunen and Björn Waldegård repeated this feat.
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