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| name = Pentti Airikkala | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1945|09|04}} | birth_place = Helsinki, Finland | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2009|09|30|1945|09|04}} | death_place = Bray, Berkshire, United Kingdom | nationality = {{flagicon|Finland}} Finnish | Co-driver = {{flagicon|Ireland}} Ronan McNamee {{flagicon|Finland}} Juha Piironen {{flagicon|Finland}} Risto Virtanen {{flagicon|UK}} Mike Greasley {{flagicon|UK}} Mike Nicholson {{flagicon|Finland}} Heikki Haaksiala | Years = 1973–90, 2003 | Teams = Privateer, Vauxhall, Rothmans Ford, Mitsubishi Ralliart, Martini Lancia, Nissan, Q8 Team Ford | Races = 37 | Championships = 0 | Wins = 1 | Podiums = 6 | Stagewins = 147 | Points = 102 | First race = 1973 1000 Lakes Rally | First win = 1989 Lombard RAC Rally | Last race = 2003 Wales Rally GB}} Pentti Airikkala (4 September 1945 – 30 September 2009) was one of the "Flying Finns" who dominated world rallying in the past four decades.[1] His career was more sporadic than many of his contemporaries, and he competed in only three World Rally Championship (WRC) events regularly; the two Scandinavian rallies (the 1000 Lakes and the Swedish Rally) and the RAC Rally in the United Kingdom. Airikkala was born in Helsinki, Finland.[2] Most of his top flight competitive experience was behind the wheel of various rear wheel drive Vauxhall/Opels like the Chevette HS and Magnum coupé, but his greatest success came in the twilight of his career, when he won the 1989 RAC Rally in a Group A Mitsubishi Galant VR-4.[3][4] He is still the third oldest driver to win a WRC event. Altogether he competed in 36 WRC events between 1973 and 1990, and a 37th in 2003, scoring 102 points and achieving a best of 9th overall in the 1981 Drivers' Championship.[5] He also contested the British Rally Championship in the 1970s/80s, becoming British Rally Champion in 1979. Since retiring from full-time international competition he operated a highly successful rally driving school in Oxfordshire teaching left-foot braking, where his roster of pupils included subsequent World Champions Colin McRae and Richard Burns.[6] DeathAirikkala died at Bray, Berkshire, UK, aged 64. He had been battling illness in recent years and was admitted to hospital shortly before his death after suffering liver problems and a fall.[7] WRC victories
Complete WRC results[2]
References1. ^Pentti Airikkala, 'Flying Finns' website 2. ^1 {{cite book |last1=Hope-Frost |first1=Henry |last2=Davenport |first2=John |year=2004 |title=The Complete Book of the World Rally Championship |publisher=MotorBooks International |location=Saint Paul, Minnesota |ISBN=0-7603-1954-5 |page=62 }} 3. ^38th Lombard RAC Rally, Final classification, Rallybase.nl website 4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/february-2005/19/my-only-wrc-win-pentti-airikkala|title=My only WRC win -- Pentti Airikkala|date=February 2005|page=19|work=Motor Sport Magazine|access-date=2018-05-23|language=en}} 5. ^1981 World Rally Championship for Drivers, Final classification, Rallybase.nl 6. ^Pentti's Champion Pupils {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504203135/http://www.leftfootbraking.com/penttischampions.htm |date=2006-05-04 }}, leftfootbraking.com 7. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79077|title=Rally star Airikkala dies|work=autosport.com|publisher=Haymarket Publications|date=2009-01-10|accessdate=2009-01-10}} External links
8 : 1945 births|2009 deaths|Deaths from liver disease|Finnish expatriates in the United Kingdom|World Rally Championship drivers|Finnish rally drivers|People from Bray, Berkshire|Sportspeople from Helsinki |
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