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Place of Birth: Jyväskylän maalaiskunta, Finland
About Tommi Mäkinen
- Tommi Antero Mäkinen (Finnish pronunciation: ['tommi 'mækinen]; born 26 June 1964) is a Finnish racing executive and former driver.
- He is the team principal of the Toyota Gazoo Racing team, which competes in the World Rally Championship (WRC).
- Height: 5' 9"( 1,75 m). Mäkinen is one of the most successful WRC drivers of all time, ranking fifth in wins (24) and third in championships (4), tied with Juha Kankkunen behind Sébastien Ogier (6) 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.He is a four-time World Rally Champion, a series he first won, and then successfully defended, continuously throughout 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999, on all occasions driving the Ralliart Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution.
- He also aided Mitsubishi to the 1998 world constructors' title as well as winning the 2000 Race of Champions.
- Mäkinen's navigators include compatriots Seppo Harjanne, Kaj Lindström and Risto Mannisenmäki, the former retiring from alongside Mäkinen having previously served 1985 champion, and fellow "Flying Finn", Peugeot's Timo Salonen.
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