At Rally Estonia, the seventh round of the WRC 2021 season, Kalle Rovanperä is crowned the youngest driver to ever win a race in the FIA World Rally Championship after he, together with his co-driver Jonne Halttunen, conquered the top step of the podium.
Who is the young Rovanperä
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At just 20 years and 290 days, Rovanperä claims the record that was previously held by the man who is now his Team Principal, Jari-Matti Latvala (about two years older at the time, when he won the Rally of Sweden in 2008). born in 2000, he is the son of art, born precisely from the former pilot Harri Rovanperä. At the age of 14 years started competing in Latvia, where a license is not a necessary requirement to participate in competitions and has won both the two-wheel drive and R2 categories.
The following year, aboard the Skoda Fabia S2000 he has won several races winning the Latvian championship. In 2017 the young driver, thanks to a special permit granted to him, took part in some races of the Finnish championship but also in Italy a.
Precisely in the same year, thanks to the concession of the Finnish transport safety agency, it obtained the driving license. In the same year Rovanperä participated in his first WRC rally at the Rally of Great Britain, driving a Ford Fiesta R5 M-Sport car in Wales is in the Rally d’Australia in November. He won the Rally Australia in Wrc2. He also finished tenth in the overall assessment, earned a point and thus became the youngest driver ever to score a point.