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Key facts
- Nationality
- Finnish
- Full name
- Tommi Antero Mäkinen
- Born
- ( 1964-06-26 ) 26 June 1964 (age 61) , Puuppola , Jyväskylä , Finland
- Active years
- 1987 – 2003
- Co driver
- Jari Nieminen, Risto Mannisenmäki , Rodney Spokes, Timo Hantunen, Seppo Harjanne , Kaj Lindström
- Teams
- Mitsubishi , Subaru , Nissan
- Championships
- 4 ( 1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 1999 )
- First rally
- 1987 1000 Lakes Rally
- First win
- 1994 1000 Lakes Rally
- Last win
- 2002 Monte Carlo Rally
- Last rally
- 2003 Rally Great Britain
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tommi
- Family name
- Mäkinen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Finland
- Place of birth
- Jyväskylän maalaiskunta
- Occupation
- rally driver
- Languages spoken
- Finnish
- Sport
- rallying
- Image
- Wrc fin 2004 makinen.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Tommi Antero Mäkinen ( Finnish pronunciation: [ˈtomːi ˈmækinen]; born 26 June 1964) is a Finnish racing executive and former rally driver. Mäkinen was the team principal of Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT from 2016 until his departure at the end of 2020, to become Toyota's motorsport advisor.
Mäkinen is one of the most successful World Rally drivers of all time, ranking fifth in rally wins (24) and third in championships (4), tied with Juha Kankkunen behind Sébastien Ogier (9) and Sébastien Loeb (9). In 2018, as a head of Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, he became the first person in the history of rally driving to win a Championship both as a driver and as a team principal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tommi Mäkinen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.