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Movisport
Movisport is a rally team and marketing agency based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The rally team, ''Scuderia Campione Movisport'' competes in the Italian national championship, the European Rally Championship and the World Rally Championship (WRC), and in 2021, won the Teams championship title of the support series, WRC2. The marketing agency provides advertising and promotion services linking brands with racing drivers and teams. The rally team's accomplishments therefore include those of the drivers and teams the marketing agency has worked with. History The team was founded in 1999 by Italian Zelindo Melegari primarily for his own rally driving purposes but other drivers were soon to join him in the team. Giandomenico Basso was driving for Movisport as early as 2001 on occasion and, as an agency partner in 2006, he won both the European Rally Championship and Intercontinental Rally Challenge, followed up in 2009 with another ERC win and the Italian National championship in 2016. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 World Rally Championship-2
The 2021 FIA World Rally Championship-2 is the ninth season of the World Rally Championship-2, an auto racing championship for rally cars that is recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile as the second-highest tier of international rallying. The category is open to cars entered by teams and complying with Rally2 regulations. The championship began in January 2021 with the Rallye Monte-Carlo and is due to conclude in November 2021 with Rally Monza, and will run in support of the 2021 World Rally Championship. Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen were the defending 2020 drivers' and co-drivers' champions. Toksport WRT are the defending teams' champions. Andreas Mikkelsen was crowned 2021 drivers' champion at the penultimate round despite not competing there. As he had used different co-drivers through the season a co-driver of a different crew would therefore become co-driver champion. Torstein Eriksen, consistent co-driver of Mads Østberg, was able to retain hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esapekka Lappi
Esapekka Lappi (born 17 January 1991) is a Finnish rally driver. He is the 2012 Finnish Rally Champion, 2014 European Rally Champion and the 2016 WRC-2 Champion. Career 2012 Lappi won the 2012 Finnish Rally Championship with Ford Fiesta S2000 winning all the 7 rounds of the championship with his co-driver Janne Ferm. In October, Lappi was signed by Škoda Motorsport. Lappi won his first rally with the team in 2012 Rally Poland which was part of European Rally Championship, driving a Škoda Fabia S2000. Škoda Motorsport (2013–2016) In 2013, Lappi competed full season in Asia-Pacific Rally Championship with Team MRF's Škoda Fabia S2000, and selected events in both WRC-2 and ERC with Škoda Motorsport. In APRC, Lappi won three out of six events and finished the season runner-up to his team-mate Gaurav Gill. In ERC, Lappi competed in three tarmac rallies, winning the last of them Rallye International du Valais in Switzerland. He finished the season fifth in the final sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teemu Suninen
Teemu Suninen (born February 1, 1994) is a Finnish rally driver. Suninen was driving for Malcolm Wilson's M-Sport WRT in WRC between 2017 and 2021. His manager is Timo Jouhki. Rally career Suninen won the WRC-3 class in the 2014 Rally Finland and 2015 Rally Italia Sardegna driving a Citroën DS3 R3T, and won the WRC-2 class in the 2015 Wales Rally GB driving a Škoda Fabia S2000. The Finn competed full-time at the 2016 World Rally Championship-2 with a Škoda Fabia R5. He won at Mexico with TGS Worldwide, and at Italy and Poland with Oreca, finishing third in the drivers' championship behind Esapekka Lappi and Elfyn Evans. For the 2017 World Rally Championship-2, he joined M-Sport to drive a Ford Fiesta R5. He scored a win at Spain and three runner-up finishes, ranking third in points behind Pontus Tidemand and Eric Camilli. Suninen will do a double program with M-Sport in 2018, entering some races with a Ford Fiesta WRC The Ford Fiesta WRC is a World Rally Car built b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Cais
Erik Cais (born 5 August 1999) is a Czech rally driver born in Zlín, Czech Republic. His father is the former cyclist Miroslav Cais. Erik Cais is a current driver of the Yacco ACCR Team belonging to the Autoclub of the Czech Republic, his current co-driver is Jindřiška Žáková, who has navigated Martin Vlček in the past. Before his time in motorsport, Cais was a downhill bike racer alongside another rally driver, Frenchman Nicolas Vouilloz. His rally debut came in an Opel Adam, Opel Adam Cup in 2018 before quickly moving to a Peugeot 208 R2 in the Czech championship. In the following year he competed in the European Rally Championship, FIA European Rally Championship (ERC) behind the wheel of a Ford Fiesta Rally4, Ford Fiesta R2T19. Since the 2019 Rallye du Var, his car has been the Ford Fiesta Rally2. Biography In 2019, Cais received the ''1st TALENT OF THE YEAR FIA CEZ'' award from FIA President Jean Todt. He also became the runner up in ERC3. In 2020, the British motorin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
