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Tommi Makinen

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Tommi Makinen is a Finnish former rally driver and racing executive born June 26, 1964, near Jyvaskyla, who won four consecutive World Rally Championship drivers titles from 1996 through 1999, all of them driving for Mitsubishi's Ralliart team. He ranks among the most successful drivers in the history of the World Rally Championship, and after retiring from competitive driving he moved into team management, later leading Toyota's factory World Rally Championship program.

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Birth Year
1964 2
Birth Date
1964-06-26 2
Nationality
Finnish 2
Career Highlight
Makinen is a four-time World Rally Champion, winning the title consecutively from 1996 to 1999, each time driving a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. 2
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Competition Category
Individual 1
FAQs

What made Tommi Mäkinen's 2018 championship with Toyota historic?

He became the first person in rally history to win a championship both as a driver and as a team principal.

In 2018, while he was head of Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, Tommi Mäkinen became the first person in the history of rally driving to win a championship both as a driver and as a team principal.
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Finland

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Tommi Antero Mäkinen (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈtomːi ˈmækinen]; born 26 June 1964) is a Finnish racing executive and former rally driver.
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Tommi Antero Mäkinen (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈtomːi ˈmækinen]; born 26 June 1964) is a Finnish racing executive and former rally driver.
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    born 26 June 1964
  • lead, opening parenthetical (birth year)
    born 26 June 1964
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    is a Finnish racing executive and former rally driver.
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    Mäkinen is a four-time World Rally Champion, a series he first won, and then successfully defended, continuously throughout 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999, on all occasions driving the Ralliart Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution.
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    is a Finnish racing executive and former rally driver.
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