Tapio Laukkanen

Tapio Laukkanen (born 23 September 1969 in Lahti) is a Finnish rally driver.

In 1996 he won the Finnish Rally Championship in a Volkswagen Golf GTi and in 1999 he won the British Rally Championship with a Renault Mégane Maxi twinned with fellow Finn, Kaj Lindström.

Other co-drivers include Jorma Kaikkonen, Risto Mannisenmäki, Tapio Järvi, Ilkka Riipinen and Rory Kennedy.

References

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Finnish Wikipedia.

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Martin Rowe	Autosport National Rally Driver of the Year 1999	Succeeded by Mark Higgins

Winners of Autosport's National Driver of the Year

Racing Winner	1982: Tommy Byrne 1983: Martin Brundle 1984: Johnny Dumfries 1985: Andy Rouse 1986: Andy Wallace 1987: Johnny Herbert 1988: JJ Lehto 1989: Allan McNish 1990: Robb Gravett 1991: David Coulthard 1992: Tim Harvey 1993: Kelvin Burt 1994: Gabriele Tarquini 1995: John Cleland 1996: Frank Biela 1997: Alain Menu 1998: Rickard Rydell 1999: Laurent Aïello 2000: Antônio Pizzonia 2001: Takuma Sato 2002: Robbie Kerr 2003: Nelson Piquet, Jr. 2004: James Thompson 2005: Matt Neal 2006: Mike Conway 2007: Jason Plato

Rally Winner	1982: Malcolm Patrick 1983: Darryl Weidner 1984: David Llewellin 1985: Mark Lovell 1986: Ken Wood 1987: Louise Aitken-Walker 1988: Malcolm Wilson 1989–90: David Llewellin 1991–92: Colin McRae 1993: Richard Burns 1994: Malcolm Wilson 1995: Alister McRae 1996: Gwyndaf Evans 1997: Mark Higgins 1998: Martin Rowe 1999: Tapio Laukkanen 2000: Mark Higgins 2001–02: Justin Dale 2003: Martin Rowe 2004: Guy Wilks 2005–07: Mark Higgins

Combined Winner	2008: Oliver Turvey 2009: Colin Turkington 2010: Jason Plato 2011: Matt Neal 2012: Gordon Shedden 2013: Andrew Jordan 2014: Colin Turkington 2015–16: Gordon Shedden

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