Kalle Rovanperä

Kalle Rovanperä

Nation:	Finland
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally Wales 2017
Co-driver:	Jonne Halttunen
Team:	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT
Vehicle:	Toyota Yaris WRC
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 22nd - 1 1
Championship title:	2019 (WRC2 Pro)
Points:	52
Status: February 16, 2020

Kalle Rovanperä (born October 1, 2000 in Jyväskylä ) is a Finnish rally driver . In 2020, the reigning WRC2 Pro World Champion will be the youngest works driver of all time in the World Rally Championship for Toyota . He is the son of Harri Rovanperä .

Career

Rovanperä drove a car for the first time at the age of six. At the age of 10 he took part in his first rally in Estonia . Between 2015 and 2017 he won the title in the Latvian rally series three times in a row .

In 2017, Rovanperä made his WRC debut at the Rally in Wales . He finished tenth in the last rally of the season in Australia , making him the youngest driver of all time to collect his first championship point.

In 2018, Rovanperä drove seven rallies for Škoda, scored two points and was third in the overall WRC2 standings at the end of the season. The following year he became world champion in the WRC2 Pro category. He had won five of the eleven rallies in this category and finished five times in the overall standings. The best result of the season was sixth place at the Rally Portugal .

For the 2020 season, Rovanperä switched to Toyota's WRC works team, where he will drive alongside multiple world champion Sébastien Ogier . He finished fifth at the season opener, the Monte Carlo Rally, and third at the Sweden Rally , breaking the record of the youngest driver on the podium, who had previously belonged to Yevgeny Novikov , by more than two years.

successes

• World Champion WRC2 Pro: 2019
• Latvian champion: 2015, 2016, 2017

Individual results WRC

year	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
2017	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	ESP	GBR	OUT				1	25th
												35	10
2018	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA	FIN	DEU	DOOR	GBR	ESP	OUT				3	22nd
			11		15th		DNF			14th	10		9	12
2019	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	CHL	POR	ITA	FIN	DEU	DOOR	GBR	ESP	OUT			18th	12
			18th	18th		DNF		8th	6th	9	9	16	18th	9	12	C.
2020	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT	Toyota Yaris WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	EST	DOOR	DEU	ITA	JPN									4th	40
			5	3	5

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ At the age of 18: Kalle Rovanperä in the WRC 2020 Toyota works driver. Motorsport-Total.com, June 27, 2019, accessed January 8, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Jaanus Ree: Kalle Rovanperä. Red Bull, accessed January 8, 2020 . 
3. ^ Kalle Rovanperä Driver Profile. WRC, accessed January 8, 2020 . 

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