Luka Nurmi (born 26 April 2004) is a Finnish

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. He has won the title of

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World Championship as well as the

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Sprint Challenge NEZ Series. He won the both championship series as the youngest competitor. In addition, in early seasons of his career he won many medals in Karting Finnish Championship series and in other international series. He has also won the Championship in Finland's most popular circuit racing series, Legends - also as the youngest driver in its history. Since

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he has determinately developed his career towards top speed in international GT-series.

Career

Karting 2009–2018

Born in

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, at age of five Nurmi started competing in karting as he became interested in the thrilling and fast-paced world of motorsport. Determined work in the junior karting groups delivered silver medal in the Rotax Max Finland series, bronze medal in BNL series and bronze medal in Rotax MAX Challenge World Championships. In season 2017 he won silver medal in OKj-group of Karting Finnish Championship series. He was also awarded with title of Finnish Newcomer driver. In season 2018 he continued in Finnish Karting Championship series and won bronze medal in OK-group before making a decision to continue his career in faster cars.

RX Academy 2019

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RS cars in the Nordic and the

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countries. In addition to driving, the academy included physics, mental as well as media coaching. For Nurmi the racing season, which ended in fifth place in the series, was very developing in all those sectors and provided a good foundation for his motorsport career.

Porsche Sprint Challenge NEZ 2020–2021

Finnish Relaa Racing team chose Nurmi for its junior driver to

Sprint Challenge NEZ Racing series for seasons 2020 and 2021. Nurmi thanked the team manager Raimo Niemi for the trust he had give as in his first GT year Nurmi won the bronze medal of the series. After fierceful driving in next year he improved two positions and won the Championship title as the youngest driver to win the Porsche Sprint Challenge NEZ racing series in its history.

Legends 2020–2021

In order to maintain his skills behind the steering wheel of GT cars and to develop his versatile motorsport career, Nurmi successfully competed in Legends, which has become the most popular circuit racing series in Finland. In season 2020 he won the Semi-PRO Championship series and in 2021 the PRO Championship series. In both classes, he collect the titles as the youngest driver in the series history.

Ferrari Challenge Europe 2021

Career highlights

* 2016: Karting Rotax MAX Challenge Finland Silver * 2016: Karting BNL-series Bronze (Rotax) * 2016: Rotax MAX Challenge World Finals Bronze * 2017: Karting Finnish Championship series Silver (OKj) * 2017: Finnish Rookie of the Year * 2018: Karting Finnish Championship series Bronze (OK) * 2019: RalliCross RX-Academy: 5th * 2019: Porsche Sprint Challenge NEZ Bronze * 2020: Legends Finland Champion (Semi-Pro) * 2020: Porsche Sprint Challenge NEZ Champion * 2021: Legends Finland Champion (Pro) * 2021: Ferrari Challenge Europe Bronze Medal * 2021: Ferrari Challenge World Finals Champion

Racing record

Career summary

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