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Rinne at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix on a Honda

Taru Rinne (* 1968 in Turku , Finland ) is a former Finnish motorcycle racer . She was the first woman to score points in the motorcycle world championship .

In 1988 , Rinne was 14th in the 125 cm³ class at the French Grand Prix in Le Castellet and thus achieved two World Championship points. She collected a total of 25 points for Honda in the 125 cc class.

Youth kart

  • 1979 Finnish Kart Championship (85 cc mini class). Of the same age as Mika Häkkinen (born 1968), she lost the opening race in Lappeenranta, but she won the championship before Häkkinen.
  • 1980 Finnish Kart Championship (85 cm³ mini class). In the second year she could only be runner-up after Mika Salo , Häkkinen was fourth.
  • 1981 Finnish Kart Championship (85 cm³ mini class). The opening race in Lahti was won by Rinne ahead of Häkkinen and the rest of the season saw this couple fight very hard fights. At the end of the third year of the championship, Rinne could only be runner-up, this time behind Häkkinen, after all, ahead of Mika Rinta-Jaskari . At the first race in Lappeenranta he was defeated not only by Rinne but also by another young girl, Ninna Österholm. These two girls should give him some more headaches in the coming season.
  • 1982 Finnish Kart Championship (85 cm³ mini class). Taru Rinne wins ahead of Mika Häkkinen and Ninna Österholm.
  • 1983 Finnish Kart Championship (100 cm³ Formula Nordic class). Taru Rinne wins the championship, but her most recent win is denied for banned fuel. She is disqualified from racing for a year and relegated to fourth place in the championship. Mika is declared the winner, Jukka Savolainen for second and Timo Palenius for third. Because of this decision, she turned her back on karting and only started racing on four wheels 15 years later. She begins to ride motorcycle road races on international racetracks. In the European Junior Team Championship in Horrem , Germany, she won ahead of France and West Germany with Mika, Marko Mankonen and Janne Nyman .

Motorcycle world championship

  • In 1988 Taru Rinne was 14th in the 125 cm³ class at the Paul Ricard Circuit and got two championship points.
  • In 1989 she was second in training with her Honda at the 125cc German Grand Prix in Hockenheim , but only finished seventh after having been third for a long time. This was her best placement when she had a serious accident at Paul Ricard. Bernie Ecclestone , who controlled GP sport at the time, withdrew her permission to start for the coming season. This ended her career at an all-time high. This experience was the greatest disappointment of her life.

photos

  • Taru Rinne Hockenheim 1989, Assen 1989, Assen 1990, Hockenheim 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Selection of Gossip from issue 119 . In: BikeSportNews . Retrieved January 22, 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bikesportnews.com
  2. ↑ Salmi, Riitta: Mitä kuuluu Taru Rinne? ( Finnish ) In: Turun Sanomat . Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved January 22, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Rinne, Taru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish motorcyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Turku , Finland