Teemu Suninen (born February 1, 1994) is a Finnish
rally
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Spor ...
driver.
Suninen was driving for
Malcolm Wilson's
M-Sport WRT
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in
WRC between 2017 and 2021. His manager is
Timo Jouhki
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.
Rally career
Suninen won the WRC-3 class in the
2014 Rally Finland and
2015 Rally Italia Sardegna
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Sébastien Ogier obtained its fourth victory in this season.
Entry list
Report
The rally began with a surprising Martin Prokop wi ...
driving a
Citroën DS3
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R3T, and won the WRC-2 class in the
2015 Wales Rally GB driving a
Å koda Fabia
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S2000.
The Finn competed full-time at the
2016 World Rally Championship-2 with a Å koda Fabia R5. He won at Mexico with TGS Worldwide, and at Italy and Poland with
Oreca
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, finishing third in the drivers' championship behind
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.
Career 2012
Lappi won the 2012 Finnish Rally Championship with Ford Fiesta S2000 ...
and
Elfyn Evans
Elfyn Rhys Evans (born 28 December 1988) is a Welsh rally driver. He is currently teamed with Scott Martin and is competing for Toyota Gazoo Racing in the World Rally Championship.
Career
The son of 1996 British Rally Championship Champion an ...
.
For the
2017 World Rally Championship-2, he joined
M-Sport
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to drive a
Ford Fiesta
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R5. He scored a win at Spain and three runner-up finishes, ranking third in points behind
Pontus Tidemand and
Eric Camilli
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.
Suninen will do a double program with M-Sport in 2018, entering some races with a
Ford Fiesta WRC
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and the rest with a Ford Fiesta R5.
Racing record
WRC results
* Season still in progress.
WRC-2 results
WRC-3 results
Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results
JRX Cup
Super1600
References
External links
Profile at ewrc-results.com
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Living people
1994 births
Finnish rally drivers
World Rally Championship drivers
People from Tuusula
Sportspeople from Uusimaa
21st-century Finnish people