Nationality Finnish Podiums 0 Rally wins 0 Rallies 13 Rally 13 | Co-driver Janne Ferm Total points 5 Active years 2011 – present Name Esapekka Lappi Stage wins 0 | |
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Born 17 January 1991 (age 33) ( 1991-01-17 ) Teams Printsport, Skoda Motorsport | ||
WRC - Rally Guanajuato México 2019: Lappi on SS1
Esapekka Lappi
Esapekka Lappi (born 17 January 1991) is a Finnish rally driver. He is the 2012 Finnish Rally Champion, 2014 European Rally Champion and the 2016 WRC-2 Champion. He is currently competing for Toyota GAZOO Racing WRT in the World Rally Championship.
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2012
Lappi won the 2012 Finnish Rally Championship with Ford Fiesta S2000 winning all the 7 rounds of the championship with his co-driver Janne Ferm.
In October, Lappi was signed by Škoda Motorsport. Lappi won his first rally with the team in 2012 Rally Poland which was part of European Rally Championship, driving a Škoda Fabia S2000.
2013
In 2013, Lappi competed full season in Asia-Pacific Rally Championship with Team MRF's Škoda Fabia S2000, and selected events in both WRC-2 and ERC with Škoda Motorsport. In APRC, Lappi won three out of six events and finished the season runner-up to his team-mate Gaurav Gill.
In ERC, Lappi competed in three tarmac rallies, winning the last of them Rallye International du Valais in Switzerland. He finished the season fifth in the final standings.
In WRC-2, he also raced in three rallies, winning Rally de Portugal where he also scored his maiden WRC-point finishing 10th overall.
2014
Lappi won the 2014 European Rally Championship title with victories in Latvia, Northern Ireland and Switzerland.
2015
Lappi continued competing with Škoda Motorsport driving their new challenger Fabia R5 in WRC-2 championship. He scored two wins in Poland and Finland on his way to finish the season in third place behind Nasser Al-Attiyah and Yuriy Protasov. Lappi also scored his career-best WRC result finishing eighth in Rally Finland.
2017
Lappi was signed by Toyota GAZOO Racing to drive a Toyota Yaris WRC in the 2017 World Rally Championship. On his second event with the team, the 2017 Rally d'Italia, he won his first ever stage in the WRC, along with five more stage wins. He eventually finished fourth.
In just his fourth WRC start, at his home event of Rally Finland, Lappi took his first WRC victory.
WRC results
* Season still in progress.