Pekka Päivärinta (racing driver)

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Pekka Päivärinta (right) together with co-driver Adolf Hänni after winning the IDM run in 2012 on the EuroSpeedway Lausitz .
Pekka Päivärinta's LCR team of the 2012 season.

Pekka Päivärinta (born January 11, 1971 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish motorcycle racer and self-employed master painter .

He is a five-time team - world champion and vice- world champion .

2011 season

After Schleiz , Kurt Hock and Enrico Becker were still ten points behind, but Hock / Becker dropped out at the Red Bull Ring , and Päivärinta / Hänni were able to catch up and secure the German championship at the sixth round in Hockenheim . Pekka Päivärinta and his Swiss co-driver Adolf Hänni had already secured the world championship in Oschersleben .

successes

  • 2008 - World team champion on LCR - Suzuki with co-driver Timo Karttiala
  • 2010 - World team champion in an LCR Suzuki with co-driver Adolf Hänni
  • 2011 - World team champion in an LCR Suzuki with co-driver Adolf Hänni
  • 2011 - German team master in an LCR-Suzuki with co-driver Adolf Hänni
  • 2012 - German team master in an LCR Suzuki with co-driver Adolf Hänni
  • 2013 - World team champion in an LCR Suzuki with co-driver Adolf Hänni
  • 2016 - World team champion in an LCR Suzuki with co-driver Kirsi Kainulainen

Web links

Commons : Pekka Päivärinta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pekka. www.haenniracing.ch, accessed on April 26, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Bad perspective in the sidecar , wdr.de, November 7, 2011
  3. ↑ IDM season finale Hockenheimring 2011 ( memento from July 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), presseportal.de from September 15, 2011, accessed on April 24, 2012.
  4. ↑ World Championship title and German champion , Motorsport-magazin.com from September 19, 2011, accessed on April 24, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Päivärinta, Pekka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki