at the moment, Kalle has been several years driving in the WRC, and last year he won his first world rally championship, i mean, not only one race but he absolutely was dominating, he won like 8 /11 rally events in whole season and as he was 22 years old, he was the youngest WRC winner EVER!
His dad is Harri Rovänperä, Harri "Rovis" Rovanperä is a Finnish rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship from 1993 to 2006. He drove for SEAT (1997-00), Peugeot (2001-04), Mitsubishi (2005) and Red Bull Škoda Team (2006).
I've seen some over the years, mostly in the late 90's/early 00's, I was young myself so only remember a few of the drivers, I've done a short video on my channel about rally rules, slowly getting back into it 💪🏻
@@nervanderi Off course they are , todays WRC 1 is the fastest rally cars in history, Kalles average speed on this weekends Secto Finland Rally was bit over 136 kmhs at Ouninpohja, new speed record .
when parents are: - not of the helicopter type - have fields they can use as private race tracks in winter - have access to a fast network of gravel roads in summer - giving cars no longer passing road inspections to their kids for pirvate fun Then you are in finland. My neighbour routinely turns his pastures into winter racetracks for his family, and i have personally assisted pulling his then 8 yr out of a snow-berm with all the other minors around waiting for their turn in that old decomissioned mercedes :) Its all fairly safe, on the first rounds someone who can drive will sit in copilot seat of course ... note i did not say adult :) might just be the 13 yr old sister haha
I agree. Basically the biggest problem is that those old cars really love gasoline so gasoline bill gets pretty expensive pretty fast. And since you typically cannot run those cars on public road, you need other methods of transportation to fetch the fuel for the training car. I, too, learned to drive on a Finnish field in an old car.
my father has been working on kalle rovanperä's and his family's house at the moment when kalle's father Harri rovanperä was driving in WRC :) in fact, kalle started driving in 2-3 years old starting with mopeds and ATVs, then in 5 years old he was first time able to try driving a car, but still didnt quite reach well to the pedals, the toyota starlet has been modified from the pedals side to get him reach on them hehe.. :D
WELCOME BACK BANAANI! That is bloody awesome can I just add! I'm sure your father is making it look amazing! Insane that he started driving at 2-3 😂😂 I love ittttt
Also to note in those places at winter, it's actually at Juha Kankkunen Driving Academy, one of other famous Finnish racing drivers, who is old friend of Rovanpera's...
his first actual rally was in age of 10 or 12 years if i dont remember wrong, it was held in estonia and he was driving against his father :D it was rallysprint tho, so not very long stage and driving alone. however, in finland, its not able to let 10 years old to drive such rally yet and thats why they went to estonia. after that he started his rally career in age of 14 years and there is few videos of his first rally event with same car, just different colour that time :D then he was driving in international rallies in and next year he was driving in ERC if i dont remember wrong, he was dominating there, and then he moved to WRC2 in age of 16! he was dominating also there, in age of 18 he finally got to the WRC1 (the hardest class) and 2-3 years after he won first WRC win as youngest WRC winner ever :)
2:00 8 year olds should be training on snow because (1) you cannot drive equally fast on snow so it's safer when you crash, and (2) there's typically lots of snow around you so when you crash, you hit snow first which is softer than ground, rocks or trees. And once you learn how to handle slides on snow, you can do that on gravel, too. Things just happen a lot faster on gravel.
btw that video is already re-upload because the original upload was removed due to the music rights xD this one has been around ever since tho, i remember there was already like 10 million views before it got deleted lol
Well, it was actually, who could stop him driving! At the age of 2 he had his first motor bike and after that, basically anything and everything which moves FAST!! At the age of 10 he drove his first official Rally in Latvia, cause for some reason, he was not allowed to race officially in Finland. He was a WRC2 Pro Rally World Champion at the age of 19 (Skoda Fabia R5) and the WRC Rally World Champion at the age of 22. Actually, he was 21 when the WRC Rally New Zealand begun and had his 22nd birthday on Saturday and on Sunday he was the World Champion. And they still had the WRC Rally Japan to drive.
I mean, if you want to be taken seriously with these videos, I would suggest to do some background checking. Just a friendly comment after all. You could have just googled him…
Wow aren't you fun. I know who he is and his accomplishments. Why Google when you can have a much more fun and invigorating learning experience through the medium of video. have a great day, be well, glad you enjoyed
ofc he's a better rally driver than you. his reaction time > better than yours. he had more hours of practice than you when he was 8. you wonder why finnland drivers dominate in rally ? i've been in a car in finland with a finn driving in winter and it should have scared the living daylights out of me ... and it left me with a smile on my face ... no way i would have even dared to drive at his speed in winter ... or in general :D there is a reason why so many rally and F1 drivers come from this small country.
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