Ott Tanak

Ott Tanak

Nation:	Estonia
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally Portugal 2009
Last rally:	Rally Mexico 2020 2020
Co-driver:	Martin Järveoja
Team:	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT M-Sport
Vehicle:	Toyota Yaris WRC Ford Fiesta RS WRC Subaru Impreza WRX STi Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X Ford Fiesta S2000
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 108 12 28 231
Championship title:	2019
Points:	908
Status: After rally 3 of 8, 2020 season

Ott Tänak (born October 15, 1987 in Kärla on Saaremaa ) is an Estonian rally driver . In his tenth participation in a world championship run, the Rally Mexico 2011 , he scored a world championship point for the first time . Tänak achieved his first podium finish in third at the 2012 Rally Italy , and five years later (2017) in the same rally his first victory. He was named Estonia's Sportsman of the Year in 2017 . In July 2018 he won the Finland Rally with Toyota. At the 2019 Rally Spain, Tänak and his co-driver Martin Järveoja managed to win the drivers' world championship early. He ended Sébastien Ogier's 6-year winning streak in the WRC.

Career

Ott Tänak and co-driver Rajgo Mõlder at the 2015 Rally Poland

Ott Tänak at the 2019 Monte Carlo Rally in the Toyota Yaris WRC

In 2008 and 2009, Tänak won the Estonian rally championship title in the team of former rally driver Markko Märtin . The then 21-year-old Tänak took part in his first rally world championship run at the Rally Portugal 2009 . In September of the same year he won a rally belonging to the Pirelli Star Driver series in Austria. He was voted "Pirelli Stardriver 2009". This enabled him to take part in six rounds of the World Rally Championship in the P-WRC class free of charge in 2010 .

In 2010 he started at the Rally Sweden and took part in the six above-mentioned events. There he won the Rally Finland and Rally Wales in the PWRC class .

In 2011, Tänak drove for Markko Märtin's team for the fourth year. Starting his first year in the SWRC class , he achieved his first World Championship point with tenth place overall at the Rally Mexico . In Sardinia, he achieved his best result to date, finishing seventh overall. At the 2011 Rally France , Tänak started his first World Championship rally on asphalt. He clinched an impressive class victory there and came eleventh in the heavily occupied field. In Great Britain he started in a World Rally Car for the first time and came in sixth overall.

In the 2017 season , Tänak achieved his first victory in a world championship run, and celebrated further WRC victories in the following years. In 2017 and 2018 he was third in the world championship. In his second year at Toyota WRT, he won the 2019 World Championship with a total of six wins.

statistics

WRC victories

No.	season	rally	Co-driver	vehicle
1.	2017	Rally Italy	Järveoja Martin	Ford Fiesta WRC
2.		Rally Germany
3.	2018	Rally Argentina		Toyota Yaris WRC
4th		Rally Finland
5.		Rally Germany
6th		Rally Turkey
7th	2019	Rally Sweden
8th.		Rally Chile
9.		Rally Portugal
10.		Rally Finland
11.		Rally Germany
12.		Rally Great Britain

WRC

year	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	Points	rank
2009	Ott Tanak	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	IRL	NOR	CYP	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	POLE	FIN	OUT	ESP	GBR			-	-
						20th					DNF
2010	Ott Tanak	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	SWE	MEX	JOR	DOOR	NZL	POR	BUL	FIN	DEU	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR		-	-
			DNF
	Pirelli Star Driver	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X
						DNF		DNF		18th	31		19th		17th
2011	MM Motorsport	Ford Fiesta S2000	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA	ARG	GRE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR		15th	15th
				10			7th		DNF	13	12		11	27
	Ford World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RS WRC
															6th
2012	M-Sport	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	DEU	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP		52	8th
			8th	DNF	5	14th	10	9	DNF	6th	DNF	DNF	6th	3	DNF
2014	M-Sport	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR		17th	15th
				5		DNF									7th
	Drive Dmack	Ford Fiesta R5
					15th		17th	21st	11	12	10	DNF
2015	M-Sport	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR		63	10
			18th	4th	22nd	11	5	14th	3	5	8th	6th	10	41	DNF
2016	DMACK World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	CHN	FRA	ESP	GBR	OUT	88	8th
			7th	5	6th	15th	DNF	5	2	DNF	23	c	10	6th	2	7th
2017	M-Sport World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	ESP	GBR	OUT		191	3
			3	2	4th	11	3	4th	1	DNF	7th	1	3	6th	2
2018	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT	Toyota Yaris WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA	FIN	DEU	DOOR	GBR	ESP	OUT		181	3
			2	9	14th	2	1	DNF	9	1	1	1	19th	6th	DNF
2019	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT	Toyota Yaris WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	CHL	POR	ITA	FIN	DEU	DOOR	GBR	ESP	OUT	263	1
			3	1	2	6th	8th	1	1	5	1	1	16	1	2	C.
2020	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	EST	DOOR	DEU	ITA	JPN							38	5
			DNF	2	2

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

Web links

Commons : Ott Tänak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rando Aav: Ott Tänak - kiireim noor saarlane (rallye.ee, October 15, 2004, Estonian, accessed February 15, 2013)
2. ^ Tänak and Raschi die Star Driver 2009 ( Memento from October 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Laola1.at from October 20, 2009; accessed on March 10, 2011)
3. ^ Result list of the PWRC runs 2010 (wrc.com from November 14, 2010; accessed on March 10, 2011)
4. ^ Result list of the PWRC runs 2010 (wrc.com from March 6, 2011; accessed on March 10, 2011)