Viviane Evina is a Cameroonian driver who is one of the few women to have scored points in a World Championship rally. She is the only one from Africa to record a points finish.
Her points came from when she finished eighth in the Bandama Ivory Coast Rally in 1990. She was driving a Toyota Corolla FX 16V and won class N2. This single WRC finish led to 47th in the championship, level with Safari specialist Ian Duncan, Sebastian Lindholm and David Llewellin.
The following year, she entered the Bandama again, in the same car, but retired after an accident, having run as high as sixth. Her third attempt at the event in 1992 also ended in retirement, very early in the event. The rally was removed from the WRC calendar for the 1993 season and has not returned.
In the year of her Bandama top ten, she scored another impressive finish in the Rallye de Gagnoa, also held in Cote d’Ivoire. With Jean-Charles Suzeau on the maps, she was fifth in the Corolla.
Sadly, very little information about Viviane or the rest of her career seems to exist.
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