Tapio Laukkanen

Tapio Laukkanen (born 23 September 1969) is a retired Finnish rally driver. He was born in Lahti.

In 1996 he won the Finnish Rally Championship in a Volkswagen Golf GTi, in 1999 he won the British Rally Championship with a Renault Mégane Maxi twinned with fellow Finn, Kaj Lindström and in 2016 he won the Kenyan National Rally Championship in a Subaru Impreza.

In 2017 he won Kenya's Safari Rally.

Other co-drivers include Jorma Kaikkonen, Risto Mannisenmäki, Tapio Järvi, Ilkka Riipinen and Rory Kennedy, Gavin Lawrence.

Laukkanen has retired from professional rally races, and now teaches rally drivers at a school bearing his name.

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