Jarmo Lehtinen

Jarmo Lehtinen, 2013

Jarmo Lehtinen (born 3 January 1969) is a rally co-driver from Finland. He is currently the co-driver to World Rally Championship driver Mikko Hirvonen. To date the pair have scored 13 WRC wins, all with the Ford World Rally Team.

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]

Lehtinen lives in Lahti with his wife Tanja.^[2]

Partial WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
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
2004	555 Subaru World Rally Team	Subaru Impreza WRC 03	MON Ret	SWE 9
		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
	BP Ford World Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 04										FIN 5
	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia WRC													JPN Ret
2006	BP Ford World Rally Team	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
2007	BP Ford World Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	MON 5	SWE 3	NOR 1	MEX 3	POR 5	ARG 3	ITA 2	GRC 4
		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 World Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	MON 2	SWE 2	MEX 4	ARG 5	JOR 1	ITA 2	GRC 3	TUR 1	FIN 2
		Ford Focus RS WRC 08										GER 4	NZL 3	ESP 3	FRA 2	JPN 1	GBR 8
2009	BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	IRE 3	NOR 2	CYP 2	POR 2	ARG Ret
		Ford Focus RS WRC 09						ITA 2	GRE 1	POL 1	FIN 1	AUS 1	ESP 3	GBR 2
2010	BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 09	SWE 1	MEX 4	JOR 20	TUR 3	NZL 4	POR 4	BUL 5	FIN Ret	DEU Ret	JPN 6	FRA 5	ESP 5	GBR 4
2011	Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	SWE 1	MEX 2	POR 4	JOR 4	ITA 2	ARG 2	GRE 3	FIN 4	DEU 4	AUS 1	FRA 3	ESP 2	GBR Ret
2012	Citroën Total World Rally Team	Citroën DS3 WRC	MON 4	SWE 2	MEX 2	POR DSQ	ARG 2	GRE 2	NZL 2	FIN 2	DEU 3	GBR 5	FRA 3	ITA 1	ESP 3

References

1. Weeks, James (16 November 2011). "Hirvonen replaces Ogier at Citroen WRC squad". MotorsTV.com (Motors TV). Retrieved 16 November 2011.
2. http://www.mikkohirvonen.com/

External links

• Jarmo's profile on wrc.com