Juuso Pykälistö (born 21 May 1975) is a Finnish rally driver, born in

Padasjoki Padasjoki () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Päijänne Tavastia region. It is from Padasjoki to Lahti and to Heinola. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area ...

. He has driven in the

World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is the highest level of global competition in the motorsport discipline of rallying, owned and governed by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA. There are separate championships ...

with

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and

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. Pykälistö has won the

Arctic Rally Arctic Rally, currently Arctic Lapland Rally and also known as Tunturiralli, is an annual rally competition held on ice- and snow-covered roads in Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland. It has been organized continuously since 1966. In 2021, a separate ev ...

twice. His best showing was 8th in 2005 at Sardinia. From 2004 through 2006, Pykälistö was a test driver for Citroën, testing the new

Citroën C4 WRC The Citroën C4 WRC is a World Rally Car built for the Citroën World Rally Team by Citroën Racing to compete in the World Rally Championship. It is based upon the Citroën C4 road car and replaced the Citroën Xsara WRC. The car was introduced ...

on gravel. As of 2020, Pykälistö is a medical helicopter pilot at

Tampere–Pirkkala Airport Tampere–Pirkkala Airport (; fi, Tampere-Pirkkalan lentoasema, sv, Tammerfors-Birkala flygplats), or simply Tampere Airport, is located in Pirkkala, Finland, south-west of Tampere city centre. The airport is the 14th-busiest airport in Finlan ...

. He lives in

Nurmijärvi Nurmijärvi () is the most populated rural municipality of Finland, located north of the capital Helsinki. The neighboring municipalities of Nurmijärvi are Espoo, Vantaa, Tuusula, Hyvinkää and Vihti, and it is part of the Greater Helsinki. ...

Complete WRC results

References

External links

Profile, Rally Paradise
1975 births Living people People from Padasjoki Finnish rally drivers Sportspeople from Päijät-Häme {{Europe-rally-bio-stub