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    Hannu Olavi Mikkola (24 May 1942 − 25 February 2021) was a Finnish champion world rally driver. He was a seven-time winner of the 1000 Lakes Rally in...
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  • 1983 World Rally Championship World Drivers' Champion: Hannu Mikkola World Manufacturers' Champion: Lancia Previous 1982 Next 1984 The 1983 World Rally...
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    rally stars such as Jean-Pierre Nicolas, Rauno Aaltonen, Ove Andersson, Hannu Mikkola and Guy Fréquelin. He went on to enjoy success as a co-driver with Jean-François...
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    Swedish Rally and the Rally Portugal in the hands of Hannu Mikkola. Driven by Stig Blomqvist, Mikkola and Walter Röhrl, the A2 evolution won a total of eight...
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    the Monte Carlo Rally. For 1981, Audi Sport signed Mouton to partner Hannu Mikkola. In her first year with the Audi Quattro, she took a surprise victory...
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    rally began to gain importance in the 1970s, and local heroes such as Hannu Mikkola, Markku Alén, Timo Salonen, Tommi Mäkinen and Marcus Grönholm are the...
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  • Stig Blomqvist beat the defending world champion and Audi teammate Hannu Mikkola to the drivers' title. Audi took their second manufacturers' title,...
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    four podium finishes, enough to beat out his rival and triple winner Hannu Mikkola, the defending World Rally Champion from Joensuu, Finland. "The Hyppy:...
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    was in the 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally, driven by Finland's Hannu Mikkola and Swedish co-driver Gunnar Palm. This gave rise to the Escort Mexico...
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  • n°545, 22 October 1986). According to World Rally Archive, Mikkola won 654 stages. Mikkola also won special stages in the following rallies that are not...
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  • simultaneously earning for Fiat its third and final manufacturer's title. Finn Hannu Mikkola and Swede Björn Waldegård again battled to a one-point difference in...
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  • Röhrl, seized the driver's title. Top Audi pilots Michèle Mouton and Hannu Mikkola took second and third in the drivers' race, but their combined efforts...
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  • Mikkola is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Esko Mikkola (born 1975), Finnish javelin thrower Hannu Mikkola (1942–2021), retired...
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    In 2011, Röhrl was inducted into the Rally Hall of Fame along with Hannu Mikkola and in July 2016 was inducted into Germany's Sports Hall of Fame. African...
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    of South America before arriving in Mexico City. The Ford Escort of Hannu Mikkola and Gunnar Palm won. These were followed in 1974 by the London-Sahara-Munich...
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    Zasada and Andrzej Zembrzuski. In 1979 a 5.0-litre 450SLC driven by Hannu Mikkola won the Bandama Rally in Côte d'Ivoire, with others finishing 2nd, 3rd...
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    000 miles (25,700 km) through Europe and South America. It was won by Hannu Mikkola and Gunnar Palm, driving a Ford Escort. The event was the brainchild...
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  • combined athlete Hannu Mikkola (1942–2021), retired world champion rally driver Hannu Patronen (born 1984), Finnish footballer Hannu Rajaniemi (born 1978)...
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    Waldegård became the first official world champion, edging out Finland's Hannu Mikkola by one point. Fiat took the manufacturers' title with the Fiat 131 Abarth...
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     West Germany Walter Röhrl Opel Ascona 400 2 8 109 12 1983  Finland Hannu Mikkola Audi Quattro A1/A2 4 7 125 23 1984  Sweden Stig Blomqvist Audi Quattro...
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  • as Michèle Mouton Rebecca Busi as Fabrizia Pons Gianmaria Martini as Hannu Mikkola Axel Gallois as Dupont, a race inspector Giorgio Montanini as Ennio...
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    five, won by Sébastien Ogier (2013–2016, 2018), who surpassed Finnish Hannu Mikkola (1978–79, 1981–82) and Norwegian Petter Solberg (2002–2005). Though...
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    four times. After Röhrl retired from the WRC, Geistdörfer co-drove to Hannu Mikkola in eight events in 1988 and 1989. Official website Geistdörfer at rallybase...
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  • driver line-up was also improving what with the team’s stalwart; Finns Hannu Mikkola and Timo Salonen now supported by Ingvar Carlsson and, from time to...
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    Finnish driver Hannu Mikkola, first in the Ford Escort RS1600, later moving on to the RS1800. He won the RAC Rally for a second time with Mikkola, in 1978 in...
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  • between the winner, Swede Björn Waldegård, and the runner-up, Finn Hannu Mikkola, was only a single point. 1979 in sports Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    Although the Audi Quattro was still in essence a Group 4 car, it carried Hannu Mikkola to the driver's title in 1983. Lancia had designed a new car to Group...
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    the Prodrive-built Group A Subaru Legacy alongside Finns Ari Vatanen, Hannu Mikkola and Markku Alén. McRae then won his first WRC rally in the car at that...
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    Champions drivers Hannu Mikkola and Walter Röhrl. The Audi 200 became the first four-wheel-drive car to win the Safari Rally, with Hannu Mikkola driving, with...
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  • driver himself, and was recently[when?] co-driver for Finnish driver Hannu Mikkola with whom he competed for Ford in a recent Classic Rally in New Zealand...
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