Marko Salminen

Marko Salminen
Birth date	October 10, 1978 (age 48)
Years	, –, –present
Teams	M-Sport Ford WRT, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT
Championships	0
Races	63
Wins	0
Podiums	1
Stagewins	7
Points	138
First race	2008 Rally Sweden
Last race	2025 Rally Japan

Marko Salminen (born 10 October 1978) is a Finnish rally co-driver. He has been competing in the Junior World Rally Championship as the co-driver of Sami Pajari and in the Finnish Rally Championship alongside Teemu Asunmaa, Teemu Suninen and Valtteri Bottas. As announced on the 3 December 2024, Salminen is returning to co-drive Sami Pajari, driving 2025 for the Toyota Gazoo Racing WRC team in a GR Yaris Rally1 car.

Rally career

Salminen began his rally career in the 2008 Rally Sweden, co-driving for Jussi Tiippana in a Subaru Impreza STi N12.^[1]

Starting from 2019 season, Salminen partnered with Teemu Suninen in M-Sport Ford WRT. Before the season began, the Finnish crew made their debut cooperation in the 2018 Monza Rally Show, where they finished as the runner-up, just behind the MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi.^[2]

In Corsica, Salminen scored his first WRC points, finishing fifth overall.^[3] Only days before the start of Rally Sardinia 2019, Salminen was replaced as co-driver for Suninen in favour of the more experienced Jarmo Lehtinen.

Salminen was the co-driver of Sami Pajari in 2020 Junior WRC, and is set to resume their partnership from onwards.^[4]

Rally results

WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	WDC	Points
2008	Motoring Club	Subaru Impreza STi N14	MON	SWE 27	MEX	ARG	JOR	ITA	GRE	TUR								NC	0
2008	Subaru Rally Team USA	Subaru Impreza STi N14									FIN 24	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	GBR	NC	0
2011	Juha Salo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA 30	ARG	GRE									NC	0
2011	Juha Salo	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X R4								FIN 35	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR			NC	0
2012	Proton Motorsports	Proton Satria Neo S2000	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN 18	GER	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP			NC	0
2013	Hannu's Rally Team	Subaru Impreza STi R4	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA 14	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP				NC	0
2013	ADAC Weser-Ems	Citroën DS3 R3T													GBR 28			NC	0
2014	Henri Haapamäki	Citroën C2 R2	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	POL	FIN 15	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP				NC	0
2014	Hannu's Rally Team	Citroën DS3 R3T													GBR 31			NC	0
2015	Hannu's Rally Team	Citroën DS3 R3T Max	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR 30	ITA	POL 28	FIN 19	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR			NC	0
2016	Juha Salo	Peugeot 208 T16	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN Ret	GER	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR	AUS		NC	0
2017	Tommi Mäkinen Racing	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE 22	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR 36	ITA 14	POL	FIN Ret	GER	ESP 51	GBR	AUS			NC	0
2018	Tommi Mäkinen Racing	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE 11	MEX	FRA 35	ARG	POR 26	ITA Ret	FIN Ret	GER	TUR	GBR	ESP 24	AUS			NC	0
2019	M-Sport Ford WRT	Ford Fiesta WRC	MON 11	SWE 23	MEX Ret	FRA 5	ARG 7	CHL 5	POR 4	ITA	FIN	GER	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS C		12th	44
2020	Team Flying Finn	Ford Fiesta R2T	MON	SWE 30	MEX	EST 29	TUR	ITA 44	MNZ 71									NC	0
2021	Teemu Asunmaa	Škoda Fabia R5 Evo	MON	ARC 13								FIN Ret						NC	0
2021	Porvoon Autopalvelu	Ford Fiesta Rally4			CRO 25	POR 28	ITA	KEN	EST 21	BEL 21	GRE		ESP 28	MNZ				NC	0
2023	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT NG	Renault Clio Rally4	MON	SWE 32	MEX	CRO	POR	ITA	KEN	EST	FIN 43	GRE	CHL	EUR	JPN			NC	0
2024	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT NG	Toyota GR Yaris Rally2	MON	SWE 15	KEN	CRO 29	POR Ret	ITA 60	POL	LAT	FIN Ret	GRE	CHL	EUR	JPN Ret			NC	0
2025	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT2	Toyota GR Yaris Rally1	MON Ret	SWE 7	KEN 4	ESP Ret	POR 7	ITA 7	GRE 46	EST 7	FIN 5	PAR 6	CHL 5	EUR 6	JPN 3	SAU		8th*	94*

* Season still in progress.

References

^ "Marko Salminen". e-wrc.com. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
^ "Rossi's Seventh Monza Success". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
^ "Sunday in Corsica: Neuville profits from Evans Despair". wrc.com. WRC. 31 March 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
^ Barry, Luke (3 December 2024). "Pajari confirms his new co-driver". dirtfish.com. Retrieved 3 December 2024.

External links

Marko Salminen's e-wrc profile