Teemu Suninen

Teemu Suninen

Nation:	Finland
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally Finland 2014
Co-driver:	Marko Salminen Mikko Markkula Juha-Pekka Jauhiainen
Team:	M-Sport World Rally Team
Vehicle:	Ford Fiesta WRC Ford Fiesta R5 Škoda Fabia R5 Škoda Fabia S2000 Citroën DS3 R3T
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 56 - 3 13
Points:	206
Status: After rally 3 of 8, 2020 season

Teemu Suninen (born February 1, 1994 in Vantaa ) is a Finnish rally driver.

Career

Teemu Suninen began his motorsport career in karting in 2002 . There he achieved several podium finishes by 2011. He achieved his greatest successes in karting in 2010 when he won the Finnish Kart Championship and came second in the CIK-FIA European Championship in the KF2 class, and in 2011 when he won the KF2 title in the SKUSA SuperNationals XV .

In 2012 he drove a season in the European Rallycross Championship in the Super 1600 classification with a Renault Clio and finished eighth.

With the 2013 season, Suninen switched to rallying and drove in the Finnish F-Cup, which he won in the B-Junior classification. He has been competing in the World Rally Championship (WRC) since 2014 . In his first WRC season he drove together with his co-driver Juha-Pekka Jauhiainen in a Ford Fiesta R2 in the WRC 3 classification and finished eighth in the overall classification. At the end of the year, he took first place in the Finnish Fiesta Sport Trophy .

In the following years he competed in the WRC together with co-driver Mikko Markkula until 2018. During this period, he achieved his greatest rally success in 2016 with a Škoda Fabia R5 in the WRC2 classification with the runner-up championship title. A year later he finished third in WRC2 on a Ford Fiesta R5 and Ford Fiesta RS WRC .

In the 2019 season he competed in the WRC classification with co-drivers Marko Salminen and Jarmo Lehtinen in a Ford Fiesta WRC and finished ninth at the end of the year.

Single results

WRC

year	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	Points	rank
2014	AKK Sports Team Finland	Citroën DS3 R3T	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR		-	-
										17th
2015	Team Oreca	Citroën DS3 R3T Max	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR		-	-
							DNF	34		54
	TGS Worldwide OU	Skoda Fabia S2000
									19th						11
	Team Oreca	Ford Fiesta R5
											19th		18th	37
2016	Team Oreca	Skoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	CHN	FRA	ESP	GBR	OUT	8th	18th
			12	10			45	8th	11	10	57	C.	15th	27	14th
	TGS Worldwide OU	Skoda Fabia R5
					9
2017	M-Sport World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	ESP	GBR	OUT		29	14th
				10		8th		12				16	8th	31
	M-Sport World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta WRC
										6th	4th
2018	M-Sport World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA	FIN	DEU	DOOR	GBR	ESP	OUT		54	12
			18th
	M-Sport Ford WRT	Ford Fiesta WRC
				8th	12		9	3	10	6th	5	4th	DNF	11	DNF
2019	M-Sport Ford WRT	Ford Fiesta WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	CHL	POR	ITA	FIN	DEU	DOOR	GBR	ESP	OUT	89	9
			11	23	DNF	5	7th	5	4th	2	8th	29	4th	DNF	7th	C.
2020	M-Sport Ford WRT	Ford Fiesta WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	EST	DOOR	DEU	ITA	JPN							26th	6th
			8th	8th	3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Teemu Suninen. In: www.teemusuninen.com. Retrieved March 9, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} DriverDB website: Teemu Suninen. In: www.driverdb.com. Retrieved March 9, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} eWRC-Results - Website: Teemu Suninen. In: www.ewrc-results.com. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .