Kalle Rovanperä
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Rovanperä at the 2023 Central European Rally | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 October 2000 Jyväskylä, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relatives | Harri Rovanperä (father) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kalle Alex Rovanperä (Finnish: [ˈkɑlːe ˈroʋɑmˌperæ]; born 1 October 2000) is a Finnish professional rally and racing driver who competes in the Super Formula Championship for Toyota Gazoo Racing. He is a double World Rally Championship (WRC) champion, having won the 2022 and 2023 World Championships consecutively. As the son of former WRC driver Harri Rovanperä, he garnered international attention by starting rallying at an exceptionally young age.
Rovanperä won two titles in Latvia, before making his WRC debut in 2017. He won the World Rally Championship-2 Pro in 2019, and was promoted to the top tier by Toyota as their works driver in 2020. In 2021, Rovanperä became the youngest driver to win a World Rally Championship event by winning the 2021 Rally Estonia. In 2022, he became the youngest ever World Champion after winning the 2022 Rally New Zealand a day after his 22nd birthday.