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Hannu Mikkola
Mikkola in 1966
Personal information
Nationality
Finnish
Full name
Hannu Olavi Mikkola
Born
(1942-05-24)24 May 1942 Joensuu, Finland
Died
25 February 2021(2021-02-25) (aged 78)[1] Helsinki, Finland
World Rally Championship record
Active years
1973–1993
Co-driver
Jim Porter John Davenport Atso Aho Erkki Rautanen Jean Todt Claes Billstam Arne Hertz Roland Gumpert Christian Geistdörfer Seppo Harjanne Johnny Johansson Bruno Berglund
Teams
Ford, Toyota, Audi, Mazda, Subaru
Rallies
123
Championships
1 (1983)
Rally wins
18
Podiums
44
Stage wins
666[2]
Total points
655
First rally
1973 Monte Carlo Rally
First win
1974 1000 Lakes Rally
Last win
1987 Safari Rally
Last rally
1993 1000 Lakes Rally
Hannu Olavi Mikkola (24 May 1942 − 25 February 2021)[1] was a Finnish champion world rally driver. He was a seven-time winner of the 1000 Lakes Rally in Finland and won the RAC Rally in Great Britain four times.
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^According to World Rally Archive, Mikkola won 654 stages. Mikkola also won special stages in the following rallies that are not yet taken into account by www.juwra.com : 1 stage in Acropolis 1976(source: Sport Auto and Auto Hebdo), 1 stage in Sweden 1977 (source: Sport Auto), 10 stages in Acropolis 1977 (source: Sport Auto).
Hannu Olavi Mikkola (24 May 1942 − 25 February 2021) was a Finnish champion world rally driver. He was a seven-time winner of the 1000 Lakes Rally in...
1983 World Rally Championship World Drivers' Champion: HannuMikkola World Manufacturers' Champion: Lancia Previous 1982 Next 1984 The 1983 World Rally...
Swedish Rally and the Rally Portugal in the hands of HannuMikkola. Driven by Stig Blomqvist, Mikkola and Walter Röhrl, the A2 evolution won a total of eight...
rally stars such as Jean-Pierre Nicolas, Rauno Aaltonen, Ove Andersson, HannuMikkola and Guy Fréquelin. He went on to enjoy success as a co-driver with Jean-François...
n°545, 22 October 1986). According to World Rally Archive, Mikkola won 654 stages. Mikkola also won special stages in the following rallies that are not...
rally began to gain importance in the 1970s, and local heroes such as HannuMikkola, Markku Alén, Timo Salonen, Tommi Mäkinen and Marcus Grönholm are the...
000 miles (25,700 km) through Europe and South America. It was won by HannuMikkola and Gunnar Palm, driving a Ford Escort. The event was the brainchild...
Röhrl, seized the driver's title. Top Audi pilots Michèle Mouton and HannuMikkola took second and third in the drivers' race, but their combined efforts...
simultaneously earning for Fiat its third and final manufacturer's title. Finn HannuMikkola and Swede Björn Waldegård again battled to a one-point difference in...
winning the Lombard RAC Rally, over four minutes ahead of runner-up HannuMikkola. Neither Toivonen nor Talbot were expected to be competitive in the...
Finnish driver HannuMikkola, first in the Ford Escort RS1600, later moving on to the RS1800. He won the RAC Rally for a second time with Mikkola, in 1978 in...
Waldegård became the first official world champion, edging out Finland's HannuMikkola by one point. Fiat took the manufacturers' title with the Fiat 131 Abarth...
driver line-up was also improving what with the team’s stalwart; Finns HannuMikkola and Timo Salonen now supported by Ingvar Carlsson and, from time to...
Champions drivers HannuMikkola and Walter Röhrl. The Audi 200 became the first four-wheel-drive car to win the Safari Rally, with HannuMikkola driving. The...
five, won by Sébastien Ogier (2013–2016, 2018), who surpassed Finnish HannuMikkola (1978–79, 1981–82) and Norwegian Petter Solberg (2002–2005). Though...
Although the Audi Quattro was still in essence a Group 4 car, it carried HannuMikkola to the driver's title in 1983. Lancia had designed a new car to Group...
the Prodrive-built Group A Subaru Legacy alongside Finns Ari Vatanen, HannuMikkola and Markku Alén. McRae then won his first WRC rally in the car at that...
of South America before arriving in Mexico City. The Ford Escort of HannuMikkola and Gunnar Palm won. These were followed in 1974 by the London-Sahara-Munich...
between the winner, Swede Björn Waldegård, and the runner-up, Finn HannuMikkola, was only a single point. 1979 in sports Wikimedia Commons has media...
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Finnish
Jim Porter
Jean Todt
Claes Billstam
Roland Gumpert