Rally Hall of Fame

The Rally Hall of Fame is a hall of fame for famous rally drivers and other persons who have had a great influence on rallying. The exhibition is part of the automobile and road museum Mobilia located at Kangasala, near the city of Tampere, in central Finland.

The Hall of Fame was opened on 29 April 2010 with four inductees; Erik Carlsson, Paddy Hopkirk, Rauno Aaltonen and Timo Mäkinen.[1] Walter Röhrl and Hannu Mikkola were elected in 2011,[2] and Michèle Mouton and Carlos Sainz in 2012.[3] New nominations are introduced every year during the Rally Finland.[1]

The selections are made by an international committee led by AKK-Motorsport, Finland's representative in the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). In 2011, the selection committee consisted of five persons: Mouton, Kari O. Sohlberg (chairman of AKK), Neil Duncanson (owner of North One Television), Martin Holmes (motorsport journalist) and Pekka Honkanen (director of the Sports Museum Foundation of Finland).[1]

Members

Name Year elected
Finland Rauno Aaltonen 2010
Sweden Erik Carlsson
United Kingdom Paddy Hopkirk
Finland Timo Mäkinen
Finland Hannu Mikkola 2011
Germany Walter Röhrl
France Michèle Mouton 2012
Spain Carlos Sainz
United Kingdom Andrew Cowan 2013
Finland Tommi Mäkinen
Sweden Björn Waldegård
Sweden Stig Blomqvist 2014
United Kingdom David Richards
Finland Ari Vatanen
Finland Juha Kankkunen 2015
United Kingdom Colin McRae
Italy Sandro Munari
Finland Henri Toivonen 2016
Kenya Shekhar Mehta 2017
Finland Markku Alén 2018
Sweden Ove Andersson
Germany Reinhard Klein
Finland Simo Lampinen
France Jean Todt 2019
Finland Seppo Harjanne
Finland Timo Salonen
United Kingdom Pat Moss 2020
Finland Pauli Toivonen
Finland Marcus Grönholm 2021
United Kingdom Martin Holmes
Italy Cesare Fiorio 2022
Italy Massimo Biasion
Finland Juha Piironen
Finland Ilkka Kivimäki
France Didier Auriol 2023
United Kingdom Richard Burns
Finland Lasse Lampi

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Exhibitions in Mobilia". Mobilia. Archived from the original on 2 May 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  2. ↑ "New Inductees to Rally Hall of Fame". Neste Oil Rally Finland. 9 February 2011. Archived from the original on 30 April 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  3. ↑ "Sainz and Mouton nominated to Rally Hall of Fame". Neste Oil Rally Finland. 12 March 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)



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