Pekka Päivärinta (born 1971) is a

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sidecar A sidecar is a one-wheeled device attached to the side of a motorcycle, scooter, or bicycle, making the whole a three-wheeled vehicle. A motorcycle with a sidecar is sometimes called a ''combination'', an ''outfit'', a ''rig'' or a ''hack''. ...

motorcycle racer, who with passenger Timo Karttiala, was the 2008 Superside

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World Sidecar Champion. Päivärinta rode a Suzuki GSXR1000 powered LCR as part of Team Suzuki Finland and is the first Finn to win a world

title. Päivärinta also won the

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, 2011 and 2013 FIM Sidecar World Championship, with

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passenger

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and 2016 with

Kirsi Kainulainen Kirsi Kainulainen (born 23 November 1985 in Iisalmi) is a Finnish motorcycle racer. Sidecar class In 2015, Kainulainen made history by winning the World Championship bronze as the first woman in track motorcycling in the sidecar class with Pekk ...

on a LCR BMW. Päivärinta is competing in the 2021 FIM Sidecar World Championship with Dutch passenger Ilse De Haas.

References

External links

Official site

, FIM Sidecar World Championship
Living people 1971 births Finnish motorcycle racers Sidecar racers {{Motorcycle-racing-bio-stub