Sami Pajari

Sami Pajari
	Sami Pajari at the 2024 Rally Japan
Personal information
Nationality	Finnish
Full name	Sami Erik Pajari
Born	1 December 2001; Lahti, Finland
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2019–present
Co-driver	Antti Haapala; Marko Salminen; Enni Mälkönen
Teams	Toksport WRT, Printsport, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT
Rallies	60
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	3
Stage wins	14
Total points	195
First rally	2019 Rally Finland

Sami Erik Pajari (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsɑmi ˈpɑjɑri]; born 1 December 2001) is a Finnish professional rally driver.^[1] He won the Junior WRC Championship in 2021.^[2] Pajari then competed in the 2024 WRC2 Championship, which he won.

Results

WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2019	Team Flying Finn	Ford Fiesta R2T19	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	CHL	POR	ITA	FIN Ret	GER	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS C	NC	0
2020	Team Flying Finn	Ford Fiesta Rally4	MON	SWE 29	MEX	EST 29	TUR	ITA 44	MNZ 71								NC	0
2021	Sami Pajari	Ford Fiesta Rally4	MON	ARC 28													NC	0
2021	Porvoon Autopalvelu	Ford Fiesta Rally4			CRO 25	POR 28	ITA	KEN	EST 21	BEL 21	GRE	FIN	ESP 28	MNZ			NC	0
2022	Sami Pajari	Ford Fiesta Rally3	MON 22	SWE 31	CRO Ret	POR 17		KEN	EST 16		BEL 53	GRE 43	NZL				NC	0
2022	Sami Pajari	Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo					ITA 12			FIN 21				ESP 17	JPN 11		NC	0
2023	Toksport WRT	Škoda Fabia RS Rally2	MON WD	SWE 10	MEX	CRO 13	POR 22	ITA 29	KEN	EST 10							17th	12
2023	Toksport WRT 2	Škoda Fabia RS Rally2									FIN 7	GRE Ret	CHL 8	EUR 13	JPN		17th	12
2024	Printsport	Toyota GR Yaris Rally2	MON 12	SWE 6	KEN	CRO 10	POR Ret	ITA 6	POL 9	LAT 12		GRE 4			JPN 8		10th	44
2024	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT	Toyota GR Yaris Rally1									FIN 4		CHL 6	EUR Ret			10th	44
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 4	8th	107
2026	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT2	Toyota GR Yaris Rally1	MON Ret	SWE 3	KEN 3	CRO	ESP	POR	JPN	GRE	EST	FIN	PAR	CHL	ITA	SAU	5th*	32*

* Season still in progress.

WRC-2 results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Pos.	Points
2022	Sami Pajari	Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo	MON	SWE	CRO	POR	ITA 5	KEN	EST	FIN 10	BEL	GRE	NZL	ESP 7	JPN 5	14th	30
2023	Toksport WRT	Škoda Fabia RS Rally2	MON	SWE 3	MEX	CRO 5	POR	ITA 19	KEN	EST 2						7th	86
2023	Toksport WRT 2	Škoda Fabia RS Rally2									FIN 1	GRE Ret	CHL 3	EUR	JPN	7th	86
2024	Printsport	Toyota GR Yaris Rally2	MON	SWE 2	KEN	CRO	POR Ret	ITA 1	POL 1	LAT 3	FIN	GRE 1	CHL	EUR	JPN 2	1st	126

WRC-3 Open results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Pos.	Points
2022	Sami Pajari	Ford Fiesta Rally3	MON 1	SWE 4	CRO Ret	POR 1	ITA	KEN	EST 1	FIN	BEL	GRE	NZL	ESP	JPN	2nd	87

JWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	WDC	Points
2019	Team Flying Finn	Ford Fiesta R2T19	SWE	FRA	ITA	FIN Ret	GBR	17th	2
2020	Team Flying Finn	Ford Fiesta Rally4	SWE 4	EST 2	ITA 5	MNZ 4		3rd	66
2021	Porvoon Autopalvelu	Ford Fiesta Rally4	CRO 6	POR 2	EST 1	BEL 2	ESP 1	1st	145

References

^ "Sami Pajari". wrc.com. WRC. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
^ "Pajari crowned FIA Junior WRC champion". World Rally Championship. 17 October 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

External links

Sami Pajari at eWRC-results.com

[1] "Sami Pajari". wrc.com. WRC. Retrieved 13 January 2022.

[fia-2] "Pajari crowned FIA Junior WRC champion". World Rally Championship. 17 October 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

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