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RACING DRIVER

Leo Kinnunen

1943 - 2017

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Leo Juhani "Leksa" Kinnunen (5 August 1943 – 26 July 2017) was a Finnish racing driver, and the first Formula One driver from Finland. Kinnunen won the Nordic Challenge Cup in 1969, the Interserie from 1971–1973, and helped Porsche to take the World Sportscar Championship for manufacturers in 1970 (drivers championships were not awarded until 1981). In 1974, he switched to Formula One, but in addition to the problems with the underpowered Surtees TS16, his team soon ran into financial problems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Kinnunen has received more than 90,998 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Leo Kinnunen is the 213th most popular racing driver (up from 237th in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Finland (up from 170th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Finnish Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Leo Kinnunen ranks 213 out of 888Before him are Nick Heidfeld, Kunimitsu Takahashi, Romain Grosjean, Marc Surer, Jackie Oliver, and Umberto Maglioli. After him are Kurt Adolff, Emilio de Villota, Phil Read, Lee Wallard, Bertrand Gachot, and Philippe Alliot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Leo Kinnunen ranks 303Before him are Cornelia Froboess, Robbie Robertson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Jean Zerbo, Herman Van Springel, and Ramón Grosso. After him are Sharon Gless, Kuniwo Nakamura, Robert Axelrod, Oliver North, Shlomo Ben-Ami, and Eva Joly. Among people deceased in 2017, Leo Kinnunen ranks 223Before him are Hilarion Capucci, Svend Asmussen, Klaus Huber, Jiří Bělohlávek, Gorden Kaye, and Haruo Nakajima. After him are Mildred Dresselhaus, Imre Földi, András Kovács, Hal Moore, Ivo Brešan, and Gisèle Casadesus.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Leo Kinnunen ranks 142 out of 642Before him are Ali Aaltonen (1884), Toivo Mikael Kivimäki (1886), Lauri Virtanen (1904), Elias Katz (1901), Lydia Wideman (1920), and Sami Hyypiä (1973). After him are Hertta Kuusinen (1904), Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870), Veikko Kankkonen (1940), Anneli Jäätteenmäki (1955), Tuomas Holopainen (1976), and Petter Adolf Karsten (1834).

Among RACING DRIVERS In Finland

Among racing drivers born in Finland, Leo Kinnunen ranks 15Before him are Mika Salo (1966), Markku Alén (1951), Rauno Aaltonen (1938), Valtteri Bottas (1989), Timo Salonen (1951), and Marcus Grönholm (1968). After him are JJ Lehto (1966), Heikki Kovalainen (1981), Timo Mäkinen (1938), Harri Rovanperä (1966), Mikko Kozarowitzky (1948), and Mikko Hirvonen (1980).