Jarmo Lehtinen

For the sports commentator and journalist, see Jarmo Lehtinen (commentator).

Jarmo Lehtinen (born 3 January 1969) is a rally co-driver from Finland. He was the co-driver to former World Rally Championship driver Mikko Hirvonen and have scored 15 WRC wins competing under Ford World Rally Team and Citroën Total. As of 2019, he is current co-driver for M-Sport driver Teemu Suninen.

Jarmo Lehtinen

Jarmo Lehtinen, 2013.
Personal information
Nationality	Finnish
Born	(1969-01-03) 3 January 1969 (age 56)
World Rally Championship record
Active years	1997–2014, 2018–2020
Teams	Citroën, Ford, Subaru, Škoda, M-Sport
Rallies	182
Championships	0
Rally wins	15
Podiums	71
Stage wins	264
First rally	1997 Rally Finland
First win	2006 Rally Australia
Last win	2012 Rally Italia Sardegna
Last rally	2020 Rally Monza

Career

Lehtinen started co-driving in 1988 alongside friend Jari Mikkola. He later partnered Marko Ramanen in the Finnish Rally Championship, and he made his WRC debut in the 1997 Rally Finland. In 1999 Lehtinen partnered Ramanen in the British Rally Championship and accompanied Jouni Ampuja to sixth in Group N in the Finnish Championship. He worked with Ampuja in the Finnish Championship for another two seasons. In 2002 he took up a new role in the gravel crew for Skoda driver Toni Gardemeister on the world championship. He also began to work with Hirvonen on international events. The pair have worked together on all their WRC outings since 2003, with Subaru in 2004 and with Ford since 2006, becoming runners-up in 2008. He won his first world rally at the 2006 Rally Australia. Lehtinen and Hirvonen competed for Citroën in 2012.^[1]

WRC victories

No.	Event	Season	Driver	Car
1	19th Telstra Rally Australia	2006	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC 06
2	2nd Rally Norway	2007
3	4th Rally Japan			Ford Focus RS WRC 07
4	63rd Wales Rally of Great Britain
5	26th Jordan Rally	2008
6	9th Rally of Turkey
7	5th Rally Japan			Ford Focus RS WRC 08
8	56th Acropolis Rally of Greece	2009		Ford Focus RS WRC 09
9	66th Rally of Poland
10	59th Neste Oil Rally Finland
11	20th Repco Rally Australia
12	58th Rally Sweden	2010
13	59th Rally Sweden	2011		Ford Fiesta RS WRC
14	21st Rally Australia
15	9º Rally d'Italia Sardegna	2012		Citroën DS3 WRC

Complete WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pos	Points
1997	Marko Rämänen	Honda Civic SiR	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRC	NZL	FIN 38	IDN	ITA	AUS	GBR			-	-
1998	Marko Rämänen	Honda Civic SiR	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRC	NZL	FIN Ret	ITA	AUS	GBR Ret				-	-
1999	Marko Rämänen	Citroën Saxo Kit Car	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRC	NZL	FIN Ret	CHN	ITA	AUS	GBR			-	-
2000	Jouni Ampuja	Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evolution VI	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	ARG	GRC	NZL	FIN Ret	CYP	FRA	ITA	AUS	GBR			-	-
2001	Jouni Ampuja	Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evolution VI	MON	SWE	POR	ESP	ARG	CYP	GRE	KEN	FIN Ret	NZL	ITA	FRA	AUS	GBR			-	-
2002	Mikko Hirvonen	Subaru Impreza WRC 00	MON	SWE	FRA	ESP	CYP	ARG	GRE	KEN	FIN	GER	ITA	NZL	AUS	GBR Ret			-	-
2003	Ford Motor Co	Ford Focus RS WRC 02	MON Ret	SWE 11	TUR Ret	NZL 10	ARG 16	GRE Ret	CYP 6	GER 13	FIN Ret	AUS 9	ITA Ret	FRA 10	ESP 14	GBR Ret			17th	3
2004	Subaru	Subaru Impreza WRC 03	MON Ret	SWE 9															7th	29
		Subaru Impreza WRC 04			MEX 5	NZL 7	CYP 5	GRC Ret	TUR 6	ARG 4	FIN Ret	GER 8	JPN 7	GBR 7	ITA Ret	FRA 10	ESP 8	AUS 4
2005	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC 03	MON	SWE Ret	MEX	NZL	ITA Ret	CYP	TUR	GRC 5	ARG		GER	GBR		FRA	ESP 3	AUS	10th	14
	Ford	Ford Focus RS WRC 04										FIN 5
	Škoda	Škoda Fabia WRC													JPN Ret
2006	Ford	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	MON 7	SWE 12	MEX 14	ESP 9	FRA 4	ARG Ret	ITA 2	GRC 3	GER 9	FIN 3	JPN 3	CYP 3	TUR 2	AUS 1	NZL 2	GBR Ret	3rd	65
2007	Ford	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	MON 5	SWE 3	NOR 1	MEX 3	POR 5	ARG 3	ITA 2	GRC 4									3rd	99
		Ford Focus RS WRC 07									FIN 2	GER 3	NZL 3	ESP 4	FRA 13	JPN 1	IRE 4	GBR 1
2008	BP Ford Abu Dhabi	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	MON 2	SWE 2	MEX 4	ARG 5	JOR 1	ITA 2	GRC 3	TUR 1	FIN 2								2nd	103
		Ford Focus RS WRC 08										GER 4	NZL 3	ESP 3	FRA 2	JPN 1	GBR 8
2009	BP Ford Abu Dhabi	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	IRE 3	NOR 2	CYP 2	POR 2	ARG Ret												2nd	92
		Ford Focus RS WRC 09						ITA 2	GRE 1	POL 1	FIN 1	AUS 1	ESP 3	GBR 2
2010	BP Ford Abu Dhabi	Ford Focus RS WRC 09	SWE 1	MEX 4	JOR 20	TUR 3	NZL 4	POR 4	BUL 5	FIN Ret	GER Ret	JPN 6	FRA 5	ESP 5	GBR 4				6th	126
2011	Ford Abu Dhabi	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	SWE 1	MEX 2	POR 4	JOR 4	ITA 2	ARG 2	GRE 3	FIN 4	GER 4	AUS 1	FRA 3	ESP 2	GBR Ret				2nd	214
2012	Citroën Total	Citroën DS3 WRC	MON 4	SWE 2	MEX 2	POR DSQ	ARG 2	GRE 2	NZL 2	FIN 2	GER 3	GBR 5	FRA 3	ITA 1	ESP 3				2nd	213
2013	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi	Citroën DS3 WRC	MON 4	SWE 17	MEX 2	POR 2	ARG 6	GRE 8	ITA Ret	FIN 4	GER 3	AUS 3	FRA 6	ESP 3	GBR Ret				4th	126
2014	M-Sport	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	MON Ret	SWE 4	MEX 8	POR 2	ARG 9	ITA Ret	POL 4	FIN 5	GER 5	AUS 5	FRA 5	ESP 3	GBR 2				4th	126
2018	Tommi Mäkinen Racing	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA Ret	FIN 23	GER	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS				NC	0
2019	M-Sport Ford WRT	Ford Fiesta WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	CHL	POR	ITA 2	FIN 8	GER 29	TUR 4	GBR Ret	ESP 7	AUS C			11th	45
2020	M-Sport Ford WRT	Ford Fiesta WRC	MON 8	SWE 8	MEX 3	EST 6	TUR Ret	ITA 5	MNZ Ret										7th	44