Using a sideways - mounted engine and a then yet to be proven front - wheel - drive layout, Cooper not only founded the Cooper Car Company, he drove to three Monte
Carlo Rally titles and 16 Grand Prix wins in his Formula 1 Cooper built machines.
Although he won World
Rally Championship
titles (in 1980 and again in 1982), Röhrl has said that it was never his intention to be on top — his only motivation was to win the legendary Monte
Carlo Rally, which he did, four times, each time in a car from a different manufacturer.