Tapio Laukkanen (born 23 September 1969) is a Finnish

rally driver Rally is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests (often called ''rally racing),'' navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed time or average speed. ...

. He was born in

Lahti Lahti (; sv, Lahtis) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is the capital of the region of Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme) and its growing region is one of the main economic hubs of Finland. Lahti is situated on a bay at the southern e ...

. In 1996 he won the

Finnish Rally Championship The Finnish Rally Championship is the national rally championship in Finland. The series currently has four classes; Super4 (including R5, S2000 and old WRC cars), Production4 (including Group N cars), R2 (including R2 and R1 cars) and Super2 (in ...

in a

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, in 1999 he won the

British Rally Championship The British Rally Championship is a rallying series based in the United Kingdom. The first championship was run in 1958 and it has been licensed by the Motor Sports Association (MSA) since 1999. MSA has opted not to run the series in 2015, ins ...

with a Renault Mégane Maxi twinned with fellow Finn,

Kaj Lindström Kaj Lindström (born 31 July 1969) is a Finnish sporting director, who worked for Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT. Prior to this position, he was a rally co-driver A co-driver is the navigator of a rally car in the sport of rallying, who sits in the f ...

and in 2016 he won the Kenyan National Rally Championship in a

Subaru Impreza The is a compact car that has been manufactured by the Japanese automaker Subaru since 1992. It was introduced as a replacement for the Leone, with the predecessor's EA series engines replaced by the new EJ series. It is now in its sixth gene ...

Other co-drivers include Jorma Kaikkonen,

Risto Mannisenmäki Risto Mannisenmäki (born on 28 May 1959) is a former rally co-driver and two-times world champion with driver Tommi Mäkinen. Career Mannisenmäki begun his career in 1982 and was co-driving for various drivers such as Tommi Mäkinen, Sebastia ...

, Tapio Järvi, Ilkka Riipinen and

Rory Kennedy Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy (born December 12, 1968) is an American documentary filmmaker who is the eleventh and youngest child of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel. Kennedy has made documentary films that center on social ...

, Gavin Lawrence

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External links

Laukkanen's rally statistics
1969 births Living people Sportspeople from Lahti Finnish rally drivers 20th-century Finnish people 21st-century Finnish people {{Europe-rally-bio-stub