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Nr. Driver/Co-driver Country Team/Entrant Car Group Class
3 Esapekka Lappi
Janne Ferm
FIN
FIN
ŠKODA MOTORSPORT Škoda Fabia S2000: 2.0A RC2

- Esapekka Lappi, foto (www.ewrc.cz)

22 year-old Esapekka Lappi is considered to be one of the most promising young Finnish rally drivers and lot of experts see a successful career for him in the future. Esapekka made his international debut in 2010, when he was 19 and driving a very common car for this age group – Honda Civic TypeR. The same year he entered his first foreign rally event in Germany with great success – the Finn finished 6th. In 2012 Lappi changed his car to Ford Fiesta S2000 and made his debut in the world championships, where he managed to take 12th place in the SWRC entry. In the same year he was crowned as champion of Finland, having won 8 championship stages! Last year Esapekka Lappi was competing in WRC2 entry, where he won the Portugal rally. In overall he had won 19 special stages during the season. Finn entered only one ERC event, the last event of the season – “Rallye International du Valais” in Switzerland. However the outcome was perfect, since he won the event.

This year Esapekka Lappi has been chosen by ERC’s leading manufacturer – “Škoda Motorsport” and he will start his WRC season with “Rally Liepāja”.