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Key facts
- Nationality
- Finnish
- Full name
- Juha Matti Pellervo Kankkunen
- Born
- ( 1959-04-02 ) 2 April 1959 (age 67) , Laukaa , Finland
- Active years
- 1979 , 1982 – 2002 , 2010
- Co driver
- Timo Hantunen, Rolf Mesterton, Staffan Pettersson, Dave Whittock, Juha Piironen, Fred Gallagher , Nicky Grist , Denis Giraudet , Juha Repo
- Teams
- Toyota , Peugeot , Lancia , Ford , Subaru , Hyundai
- Championships
- 4 ( 1986 , 1987 , 1991 , 1993 )
- First rally
- 1979 1000 Lakes Rally
- First win
- 1985 Safari Rally
- Last win
- 1999 Rally Finland
- Last rally
- 2010 Rally Finland
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Encyclopedic overview
Juha Matti Pellervo Kankkunen ( Finnish pronunciation: [ˈjuhɑ ˈkɑŋkːunen] ; born 2 April 1959) is a Finnish former rally driver. His factory team career in the World Rally Championship lasted from 1983 to 2002. He won 23 world rallies and four drivers' world championship titles, which were both once records in the series. Both Sébastien Loeb and Sébastien Ogier have since collected more world titles. Kankkunen's feat of becoming a world champion with three different manufacturers was unique until Ogier matched this achievement in 2020.
Kankkunen was signed by Toyota Team Europe in 1983 and he took his first WRC win in his third year in the team. His performances got him a deal with the defending champions Peugeot for 1986, and Kankkunen was soon crowned the series' then youngest-ever champion. As Peugeot withdrew from the championship following the ban of Group B, Kankkunen moved to Lancia and became the first driver to successfully defend his title. After a two-year stint back at Toyota, he returned to Lancia and won a record third title in 1991.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Juha Kankkunen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.