Enni Mälkönen (born 25 September 1990) is a Finnish
rally
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co-driver. She won the
World Rally Championship-3
The FIA WRC3 is a support championship of the World Rally Championship. The calendar consists of the same rallies and stages as the parent series and crews usually compete immediately after WRC2 entrants. Entry into WRC3 is limited to cars that ...
co-drivers' championship in 2022, and the
World Rally Championship-2
The FIA WRC2 is a support championship of the World Rally Championship (WRC). The calendar consists of the same rallies and stages as the parent series and crews usually compete immediately after Rally1 class crews. WRC2 is limited to production ...
co-drivers' championship in 2024.
Career
Mälkönen previously competed in show jumping, but decided to take up rallying after her horse was injured. Her father was also a rally driver. Mälkönen made her rally debut in 2012.
Mälkönen won the
WRC3
The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA WRC3 is a support championship of the World Rally Championship. The calendar consists of the same rallies and stages as the parent series and crews usually compete immediately after World Rall ...
co-drivers' championship in 2022, making her the first woman to win the championship in any
WRC
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class. The two top drivers in the class (
Lauri Joona
Lauri Joona (born 7 December 1996) is a Finnish rally driver.
Career
Joona made Junior World Rally Championship debut at the 2020 Rally Sweden.
Joona participated the World Rally Championship-3
The FIA WRC3 is a support championship of t ...
and Jan Černý) changed co-drivers during the season, while Mälkönen continued as
Sami Pajari
Sami Pajari (; born 1 December 2001) is a Finnish professional rallying, rally driver. He won the Junior WRC Championship in 2021 Junior WRC Championship, 2021. Pajari then competed in the 2024 WRC2 Championship, which he won.
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's co-driver throughout the season.
In 2024, Mälkönen and Pajari won the
WRC2
The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA WRC2 is a support championship of the World Rally Championship (WRC). The calendar consists of the same rallies and stages as the parent series and crews usually compete immediately after Rally ...
championship, where she became the second woman to win the co-drivers' championship in the category, after
Reeta Hämäläinen in 2022. Following their win, Pajari announced that the duo would no longer be driving together, as he was moving up to the premier WRC class. Mälkönen was later announced to be co-driving for
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. He now drives for Hyundai Motorsport. In 2024, he won his second ever event in ...
in the 2025
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 (inc ...
.
Results
WRC results
WRC-2 results
WRC-3 Open results
* Season still in progress.
References
External links
Rally results profile
1990 births
Living people
Finnish rally co-drivers
World Rally Championship co-drivers
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Finnish people
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