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Tommi Mäkinen Racing Oy Ltd.

Tommi Makinen Racing Oy Ltd was established by Tommi Makinen in 2004 after a highly successful World Rally Championship career. The four times World Rally Champion (1996-99) and four times Monte Carlo Rally winner, after spending the last two years of his career with the Subaru World Rally Team, moved to become a Subaru Technica International (STI) partner for the development and production of Subaru Group N cars.

The company has built up a reputation, from its small home in Puuppola, Finland, as one of the world’s foremost suppliers of Subaru Group N products available today.

The TMR entry into the 2008 P-WRC marks a new era in the development of the company. The relationship with Team Sidvin India with Naren Kumar driving, will help TMR to further expand the company’s brand awareness and world wide position.

Tommi Mäkinen - 4 time World Rally Champion

“On behalf of myself and my company, I would like to say how pleased I am that we will work with Sidvin Team India in the 2008 P-WRC. India represents a great opportunity for the future in terms of Motor Sport, and to be working with a company such as Sidvin Core-Tech and their driver Naren Kumar, I feel sure we are heading for exciting times and that we can build a very good relationship for the long term future. All of us at TMR are looking forward to this program and the positive results it will bring to all.”

World Rally Championship event wins:

Finland 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998
Sweden 1996, 1998, 1999
Kenya 1996, 2001
Argentina 1996, 1997, 1998
Australia 1996, 1998
Portugal 1997, 2001
Spain 1997
San Remo 1998, 1999
Monte Carlo 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
New Zealand 1999

Tommi's rally history

First rally car: Ford Escort RS 2000 (1985)
First rally: Nokia Rally 12.10.1985
First world rally championship event: Jyväskylä Thousand Lakes Rally 1987
First World Rally win: Jyväskylän Suurajot (Neste Rally Finland) 1994
Four times world champion with Mitsubishi
Born: 26th June 1964
Lives in Puuppola, middle of Finland

Motoring Club

Motoring Club started on 01 December 1978 as Motorsport Funs. From 1978 to 1995, Motoring Club has followed as spectators over 100 World Rallies and hosted the greatest of the Rally Drivers - Henri Toivonen, Juha Kankkunen, Walter Rohrl, Miki Biasion, Markku Alen, Tommi Makinen, Petter Solberg, Toni Gardemeister and many more. In 1996 Motoring Club started to organize Rallies in Italy, notably 13 editions of Rally Prealpi Trevigiane Tarmac, 6 editions of Rally Prealpi Trevigiane Gravel, 10 editions of Prealpi Master Show, etc.

In 2002, with the support of Finnish Team Manager Timo Jouhki, we changed Motoring Club in a real team. In collaboration with Timo, Motoring Club bought a Subaru Impreza Wrx and then a Subaru Impreza Sti, a Subaru Impreza Spec C and finally a Subaru Impreza N12. These cars were driven by Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala. Mikko finished 2nd in 2002 Italian Subaru Trophy and in total he participated in 15 rallies with Motoring Club. Jari-Matti won the 2003 Italian Subaru Trophy along with victories in Group N 2005 Rally Italia-Sardinia, 2005 Rally Tour de Corse, 2006 Rally Australia, and 2006 Rally New Zealand. In total Jari-Matti participated in 15 rallies in Italy and 15 World Rally Championship with Motoring Club cars.

This year Motoring Club has registered three entries to P-WRC with the drivers Jari Ketomaa (Finland), Jussi Tiippana (Finland), Andrej Jereb (Slovakia), Giorgio Bacco (Italy), Fabio Frisiero (Italy), and Francesco Trevisin (Italy). The new Subaru Impreza N14 will be ready for Jari Ketomaa to Rally Acropolis in Greece. Rally Acropolis will also introduce the exciting collaboration between Naren Kumar, Team Sidvin India, Tommi Makinen Racing and Motoring Club.