Esapekka Lappi

Esapekka Lappi

Lappi at the 2015 Rally Poland
Personal information
Nationality	Finnish
Born	(1991-01-17) 17 January 1991 Pieksämäki, Finland
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2011–2013, 2015–present
Co-driver	Janne Ferm
Teams	Printsport, Škoda Motorsport
Rallies	21
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	0
Total points	21
First rally	2011 Rally Finland
Last rally	2016 Rally Australia

Esapekka Lappi (born 17 January 1991) is a Finnish rally driver. He is the 2012 Finnish Rally Champion, 2014 European Rally Champion and 2016 WRC-2 Champion.

Career

2012

Lappi won the 2012 Finnish Rally Championship with Ford Fiesta S2000 winning all the 7 rounds of the championship with his co-driver Janne Ferm.

In October, Lappi was signed by Škoda Motorsport. Lappi won his first rally with the team in 2012 Rally Poland which was part of European Rally Championship, driving a Škoda Fabia S2000.

2013

Lappi at 2013 Rally de Portugal.

In 2013, Lappi competed full season in Asia-Pacific Rally Championship with Team MRF's Škoda Fabia S2000, and selected events in both WRC-2 and ERC with Škoda Motorsport. In APRC, Lappi won three out of six events and finished the season runner-up to his team-mate Gaurav Gill.

In ERC, Lappi competed in three tarmac rallies, winning the last of them Rallye International du Valais in Switzerland. He finished the season fifth in the final standings.

In WRC-2, he also raced in three rallies, winning Rally de Portugal where he also scored his maiden WRC-point finishing 10th overall.

2014

Lappi won the 2014 European Rally Championship title with victories in Latvia, Northern Ireland and Switzerland.

2015

Lappi continued competing with Škoda Motorsport driving their new challenger Fabia R5 in WRC-2 championship. He scored two wins in Poland and Finland on his way to finish the season in third place behind Nasser Al-Attiyah and Yuriy Protasov. Lappi also scored his career-best WRC result finishing eighth in Rally Finland.

Career results

WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2011	Printsport	Citroën C2 R2	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA	ARG	GRE	FIN 32	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR		NC	0
2012	Printsport	Ford Fiesta S2000	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN 25							NC	0
	Esapekka Lappi	Citroën C2 R2									GER Ret	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP
2013	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	MON Ret	SWE	MEX	POR 10	ARG	GRE	ITA								30th	1
	Esapekka Lappi									FIN 31	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR
2015	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR 12	ITA 17	POL 12	FIN 8	GER 42	AUS	FRA 14	ESP Ret	GBR		20th	4
2016	Esapekka Lappi	Škoda Fabia R5	MON 9														12th	16
	Škoda Motorsport			SWE 12	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA 21	POL 14	FIN 8	GER 7	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR 11	AUS 8

* Season still in progress.

SWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos.	Points
2012	Printsport	Ford Fiesta S2000	MON	SWE	POR	NZL	FIN 5	GBR	FRA	ESP	12th	10

WRC-2 results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2013	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	MON Ret	SWE	MEX	POR 1	ARG	GRE	ITA								16th	25
	Esapekka Lappi									FIN 11	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR
2015	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR 2	ITA 9	POL 1	FIN 1	GER 13	AUS	FRA 2	ESP Ret	GBR		3rd	88
2016	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE 3	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA 9	POL 3	FIN 1	GER 1	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR 1	AUS 1	1st	132

* Season still in progress.

ERC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Points
2012	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	AUT	ITA	HRV	BGR	BEL	TUR	PRT	CZE	ESP	POL 1	CHE		—	39
2013	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	JÄN	LIE	CAN	AZO	COR	YPR	ROM	ZLÍ Ret	POL	CRO	SAN 2	VAL 1	5th	64
2014	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	JÄN	LIE 1	GRE 4	IRE 1	AZO	YPR Ret	EST 5	CZE Ret	CYP	VAL 1	COR Ret		1st	162

APRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pos.	Points
2013	Team MRF	Škoda Fabia S2000	NZL 1	NCL Ret	AUS 1	MYS Ret	JPN Ret	CHN 1	2nd	117

External links

• Official website
• Lappi's profile in ewrc-results.com