Janne Tuohino

Janne Tuohino
	Tuohino (on the left) at the 2005 Cyprus Rally.
Personal information
Nationality	Finnish
Born	22 May 1975 (age 48); Kiiminki, Finland
World Rally Championship record
Active years	1996–2006, 2009–2010, 2016, 2018–2019, 2021
Co-driver	Risto Pietiläinen; Harri Kiesi; Ilkka Riipinen; Miikka Anttila ; Petri Vihavainen; Jukka Aho; Mikko Markkula ; Markku Tuohino; Marko Sallinen; Reeta Hämäläinen
Teams	Ford, Škoda
Rallies	50
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	3
Total points	21
First rally	1996 Rally Finland
Last rally	2021 Arctic Rally

Last updated February 10, 2024

Janne Tuohino (born 22 May 1975) is a Finnish rally driver.^[1]

Career

He began his rally career in 1993 when he entered a rally sprint in a Toyota Starlet. Although his first true rally was in January 1994, in which he drove a Ford Escort RS 2000. By the end of 1994 he was driving in Lancia Delta in which he competed most of his Finnish rallies. His father helped pay for the Lancia.

After receiving an international rally licence he imported an Opel Kadett from Sweden. With his newly acquired licence he entered the Finnish Rally Championship. Near the end of the championship he replaced the Kadett with an Opel Astra.

In 1997 he turned to car manufacturer Mitsubishi and purchased a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Mk. III. With the aid of Mitsubishi he became the Finnish Group N Champion, in 1999.

Tuohino then moved on to drive in a private Ford Escort WRC and in the end came 8th in the Rally Finland of 1999. In 2000 he had switched to Toyota and was rallying in a Corolla WRC.

In 2001 he became the Finnish Rally Champion and drove a Citroën Saxo in the Junior World Rally Championship. The final results put him 3rd in the Junior World Rally Championship since he was not always good on tarmac tracks. The next year, he placed 2nd in the Finnish Championship in a Ford Focus RS WRC 02 and took his first official World Rally Championship points.

WRC career

In 2004 he continued to drive a Ford Focus RS WRC 03 car and, again, had a good year, scoring multiple points during the season. For 2005, he joined Škoda, and shared a drive with fellow Finn Jani Paasonen alongside team leader Armin Schwarz. However, the team folded at the end of the year, which left Tuohino without a drive for the next season.^[1]

Post-WRC

After 2006, Tuohino has taken part in a few WRC races and has returned to race on the Finnish Rally Championship.^[1]

Complete WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1996	Janne Tuohino	Opel Astra GSi 16v	SWE	KEN	IDN	GRC	ARG	FIN Ret	AUS	ITA	ESP								NC	0
1997	Janne Tuohino	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRC	NZL	FIN Ret	IDN	ITA	AUS	GBR			NC	0
1998	Sawfish Racing	Volkswagen Golf Kit Car	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRC	NZL	FIN Ret	ITA	AUS	GBR				NC	0
1999	LPM Human Heat	Ford Escort WRC	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRC	NZL	FIN 8	CHN	ITA		GBR Ret			NC	0
1999	Janne Tuohino	Volkswagen Polo 16v													AUS Ret				NC	0
2000	Janne Tuohino	Toyota Corolla WRC	MON	SWE 15	KEN	POR Ret	ESP	ARG	GRC	NZL	FIN Ret	CYP	FRA	ITA	AUS				NC	0
2000	LMP Group Ltd.	Toyota Corolla WRC														GBR Ret			NC	0
2001	Janne Tuohino	Toyota Corolla WRC	MON	SWE 11	POR	ESP Ret	ARG	CYP	GRC	KEN	FIN 11	NZL	ITA	FRA	AUS				NC	0
2001	LMP Group Ltd.	Toyota Corolla WRC														GBR Ret			NC	0
2002	Janne Tuohino	Citroën Saxo S1600	MON Ret			ESP 24			GRC 19	KEN		GER Ret	ITA 24	NZL	AUS	GBR 25			NC	0
	Janne Tuohino	Ford Focus RS WRC 01		SWE 7	FRA		CYP 12	ARG
	LPM Racing	Ford Focus RS WRC 01									FIN 11
2003	Janne Tuohino	Ford Focus RS WRC 02	MON	SWE 17	TUR	NZL	ARG	GRC	CYP	GER	FIN 7	AUS	ITA	FRA	ESP	GBR			20th	2
2004	Ford Motor Co. Ltd.	Ford Focus RS WRC 03	MON	SWE 4	MEX	NZL													9th	16
	Janne Tuohino	Ford Focus RS WRC 02					CYP 6	GRC 7	TUR 7	ARG				GBR Ret	ITA	FRA	ESP	AUS
	Ford Motor Co. Ltd.	Ford Focus RS WRC 04									FIN 5	GER	JPN
2005	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia WRC	MON	SWE Ret	MEX	NZL Ret	ITA 13	CYP 9	TUR 13	GRC Ret	ARG	FIN 10	GER	GBR	JPN	FRA	ESP	AUS	NC	0
2006	Janne Tuohino	Citroën Xsara WRC	MON	SWE 10	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG	ITA	GRC	GER	FIN 6	JPN	CYP	TUR	AUS	NZL	GBR	24th	3
2009	Janne Tuohino	Peugeot 207 S2000	IRE	NOR	CYP	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	POL	FIN EX	AUS	ESP	GBR					NC	0
2010	JanPro	Ford Fiesta S2000	SWE 12	MEX	JOR Ret	TUR	NZL Ret	POR 28	BUL	FIN 17	GER	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR				NC	0
2016	Toksport World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN 25	GER	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR	AUS			NC	0
2018	Toksport World Rally Team	Škoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE 16	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA	FIN	GER	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS				NC	0
2019	Janne Tuohino	Ford Fiesta WRC	MON	SWE 10	MEX	FRA	ARG	CHL	POR	ITA	FIN	GER	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS C			30th	1
2021	JanPro	Ford Fiesta WRC	MON	ARC Ret	CRO	POR	ITA	KEN	EST	BEL	GRE	FIN	ESP	MNZ					NC	0

* Season still in progress.

JWRC Results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	JWRC	Points
2002	Janne Tuohino	Citroën Saxo S1600	MON Ret	ESP 5	GRE 1	GER Ret	ITA 10	GBR 4	3rd	15

SWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	SWRC	Points
2010	JanPro	Ford Fiesta S2000	SWE 2	MEX	JOR Ret	NZL Ret	POR 8	FIN 6	GER	JPN	FRA	GBR	EX	0

WRC-2 results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	WRC-2	Points
2016	Toksport World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN 11	GER	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR	AUS	NC	0
2018	Toksport World Rally Team	Škoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE 5	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA	FIN	GER	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS		32nd	10

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">World Rally Championship</span> Rallying championship series, highest level of rallying competition

The World Rally Championship is an international rallying series owned and governed by the FIA. Inaugurated in 1973, it is the second oldest of the FIA's world championships after Formula One. Each season, which lasts one calendar year, separate championship titles are awarded to drivers, co-drivers and manufacturers. There are also two support championships, WRC2 and WRC3, which are contested on the same events and stages as the WRC, but with progressively lower maximum performance and running costs of the cars permitted. Junior WRC is also contested on five events of the World Rally Championship calendar.

Carlos Sainz Cenamor is a Spanish rally driver. He won the World Rally Championship drivers' title with Toyota in 1990 and 1992, and finished runner-up four times. Constructors' world champions to have benefited from Sainz are Subaru (1995), Toyota (1999) and Citroën. In the 2018 season he was one of the official drivers of the Team Peugeot Total. He received the Princess of Asturias Sports Award in 2020. Sainz founded the Acciona | Sainz XE Team to join Extreme E and competed in the first two seasons alongside Laia Sanz.

Juha Matti Pellervo Kankkunen 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, but no driver was able to repeat Kankkunen's feat of becoming a world champion with three different manufacturers until Ogier matched this achievement in 2020.

Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen is a Finnish rally driver turned politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2009. Vatanen won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1981 and the Paris Dakar Rally four times. In addition, Vatanen won the 1997 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies. Since 2013 Vatanen has been the President of the Estonian Autosport Union.

Tommi Antero Mäkinen is a Finnish racing executive and former driver.

Toni Gardemeister is a Finnish professional rally driver in the World Rally Championship. After previously competing for SEAT's, Mitsubishi's, Škoda's and Ford's factory teams, as well as for privateer teams, he joined the Suzuki World Rally Team for the 2008 season.

Markku Allan Alén is a Finnish former rally and race car driver. He drove for Fiat, Lancia, Subaru and Toyota in the World Rally Championship, and held the record for most stage wins (801) in the series, until Sébastien Loeb overtook it at the 2011 Rally Catalunya. Alén's phrase "now maximum attack" became well-known.

Stig Lennart Blomqvist is a retired Swedish rally driver. He made his international breakthrough in 1971. Driving an Audi Quattro for the Audi factory team, Blomqvist won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1984 and finished runner-up in 1985. He won his home event, the Swedish Rally, seven times.

Janusz Kulig was a Polish rally driver. He started his career behind the wheel of a Polski Fiat 126p and during his early years in rally he also drove a Toyota Corolla, an Opel Kadett, and a Renault Clio. He became one of the top drivers while driving Renault Mégane Maxi. In this car he also won his first Polish Rally Championship title in 1997. After 2 seasons with Renault, he signed a contract with Marlboro Mobil 1 team. He changed his car to a Ford Escort WRC and in following years to a Ford Focus WRC. Those years were most successful for Kulig. He won another 2 Polish Championship titles and became well known in European and World rally. Kulig spent the 2002 and 2003 seasons competing in the European Rally Championship and occasional WRC events. In 2002 Janusz Kulig won the Rally du Valais. His biggest success in WRC was 1st place in PCWRC in Sweden 2003 but after the rally he was stripped of his glory by FIA due to illegal modifications in his Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VII. For the 2004 Polish Championship Season he signed a contract to drive Fiat Punto S1600.

Didier Auriol is a French former rally driver. Born in Montpellier and initially an ambulance driver, he competed in the World Rally Championship throughout the 1990s. He became World Rally Champion in 1994, the first driver from his country to do so. He was a factory candidate for Lancia, Toyota and Peugeot among others, before losing his seat at Škoda at the end of 2003. His sister Nadine was also involved in rallying as a co-driver, while his brother Gerrard was also a former rally driver.

Massimo "Miki" Biasion is an Italian rally driver, two-time World Rally champion.

Harri "Rovis" Rovanperä is a Finnish rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship from 1993 to 2006. He drove for SEAT (1997–00), Peugeot (2001–04), Mitsubishi (2005) and Red Bull Škoda Team (2006). Rovanperä was known as a loose surface specialist. He is the father of 2022 and 2023 World Rally driver's championship winner Kalle Rovanperä. He was married to Tiina Rovanperä.

The 1989 World Rally Championship was the 17th season of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) World Rally Championship (WRC). The season consisted of 13 rallies, with some adjustments to the schedule versus the previous season. The WRC ended its participation in North America by removing the Olympus Rally from the schedule, implementing in its place Rally Australia. An anomaly in the schedule was that 1989 was the only year in which the Swedish Rally and the Rallye de Monte Carlo were switched in place, with the Swedish event taking place to start the year. This made it the second and last time that Monte Carlo would not mark the first event of the WRC season until the 2009 season.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ford World Rally Team</span> 1978-2012 World Rally Championship manufacturer team

The Ford World Rally Team, also known as the Ford Motor Co. Team prior to 2005, is Ford Motor Company's full factory World Rally Championship team. In its current form, it has been a competitor since the 1997 season, when Ford Motor Company's motorsport arm selected the Malcolm Wilson Motorsport company to run its factory team, entering the Ford Escort World Rally Car. The new team took their first victory in the 1997 Acropolis Rally.

Alessandro "Alex" Fiorio is an Italian rally driver. He debuted in the World Rally Championship in 1986. Driving the dominant Lancia Delta Integrale for the Lancia "B-team" Jolly Club, he finished third in the drivers' world championship in 1988 and second in 1989. His father Cesare Fiorio was a former racer, the head of Lancia's factory WRC team and sporting director for Scuderia Ferrari.

Jussi Välimäki is a Finnish rally driver, who scored eight World Rally Championship points during his career, with a best finish of fifth on the 2006 Rally d'Italia Sardegna.

The Lancia Delta HF is a Group A rally car built for the Martini Lancia by Lancia to compete in the World Rally Championship. It is based upon the Lancia Delta road car and replaced the Lancia Delta S4. The car was introduced for the 1987 World Rally Championship season and dominated the World Rally Championship, scoring 46 WRC victories overall and winning the constructors' championship a record six times in a row from 1987 to 1992, in addition to drivers' championship titles for Juha Kankkunen and Miki Biasion, making Lancia the most successful marque in the history of the WRC and the Delta the most successful car.

Esapekka Lappi is a Finnish rally driver. He is the 2012 Finnish Rally Champion, 2014 European Rally Champion and the 2016 WRC-2 Champion. He now drives for Hyundai Motorsport

Jari Huttunen is a Finnish rally driver from Kiuruvesi. He currently competes in the World Rally Championship-2, the premier support category of the World Rally Championship, for M-Sport Ford World Rally Team. He gained notoriety in the championship after winning his very first rally in the WRC-2 category, at the 2017 Rally Finland.

References

1 2 3 "Team Tuohino". Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2011. Archived 13 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Official homepage
Statistics Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
Profile at eWRC-results.com

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[official-biography-1] 1 2 3 "Team Tuohino". Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2011. Archived 13 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine

[1]