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Janne Ferm

Finnish rally co-driver (born 1980)

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Janne Kristian Ferm (born 29 August 1980) is a Finnish rally co-driver. He is currently teamed with Esapekka Lappi and is competing for Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT in the World Rally Championship.

01Rally career

Ferm began his rally career in 2007, co-driving for several drivers. In 2010, he firmed the partnership with Esapekka Lappi. In the 2011 Rally Finland, he made his WRC debut, where the crew drove in a Citroën C2 R2 Max.

In 2013, the Finnish crew was signed by Škoda Motorsport and competed selected events in WRC-2 in a Škoda Fabia S2000.

In 2016, the crew won the WRC-2 championship with the Škoda Fabia R5 after winning in Finland, Germany, Wales and Australia.

Lappi and Ferm were signed by Toyota Gazoo Racing to drive a Toyota Yaris WRC in the 2017 World Rally Championship. On their second event with the team, the 2017 Rally Italia Sardegna, the crew won their first ever stage in the WRC, along with five more stage wins. They eventually finished fourth overall. In just their fourth World Rally Car start, at their home event of 2017 Rally Finland, the crew took their first WRC victory.

In October 2018, Toyota announced that both Lappi and Ferm would leave the team at the end of the 2018 championship. They joined Citroën for the 2019 season, partnering with multiple champion Sébastien Ogier.

Heading into the 2020 World Rally Championship season with the departure of Citroën World Rally Team from the top flight of the WRC Lappi and Ferm found themselves moving again, this time to M-Sport World Rally Team. He only lasted at Ford until the end of the 2021 World Rally Championship season, as in 2022, Ferm and Lappi partnered at Toyota again.

For 2023 to present, Ferm has been a member of Hyundai Shell Mobis World Rally Team.

02Victories

WRC victories

#	Event	Season	Driver	Car
1	67th Rally Finland	2017	Esapekka Lappi	Toyota Yaris WRC
2	71st Rally Sweden	2024	Esapekka Lappi	Hyundai i20 N Rally1

03Career results

WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2011	Printsport	Citroën C2 R2	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA	ARG	GRE	FIN 32	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR		NC	0
2012	Printsport	Ford Fiesta S2000	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN 25							NC	0
2012	Esapekka Lappi	Citroën C2 R2									GER Ret	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP		NC	0
2013	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	MON Ret	SWE	MEX	POR 10	ARG	GRE	ITA								30th	1
2013	Esapekka Lappi	Škoda Fabia S2000								FIN 31	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR		30th	1
2015	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR 12	ITA 17	POL 12	FIN 8	GER 42	AUS	FRA 14	ESP Ret	GBR		20th	4
2016	Esapekka Lappi	Škoda Fabia R5	MON 9														12th	16
2016	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia R5		SWE 12	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA 21	POL 14	FIN 8	GER 7	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR 11	AUS 8	12th	16
2017	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT	Toyota Yaris WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR 10	ITA 4	POL Ret	FIN 1	GER 21	ESP Ret	GBR 9	AUS 6		11th	62
2018	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT	Toyota Yaris WRC	MON 7	SWE 4	MEX 11	FRA 6	ARG 8	POR 5	ITA 3	FIN Ret	GER 3	TUR Ret	GBR 3	ESP 7	AUS 4		5th	126
2019	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën C3 WRC	MON Ret	SWE 2	MEX 13	FRA 7	ARG Ret	CHL 6	POR Ret	ITA 7	FIN 2	GER 8	TUR 2	GBR 27	ESP Ret	AUS C	9th	83
2020	M-Sport Ford WRT	Ford Fiesta WRC	MON 4	SWE 5	MEX Ret	EST 7	TUR 6	ITA Ret	MNZ 4								6th	52
2021	Movisport	Volkswagen Polo GTI R5	MON	ARC 10	CRO	POR 7	ITA	KEN	EST	BEL	GRE						12th	22
2021	RTE-Motorsport	Toyota Yaris WRC										FIN 4	ESP	MNZ			12th	22
2022	Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT	Toyota GR Yaris Rally1	MON	SWE 3	CRO 49	POR	ITA 44	KEN	EST 6	FIN 3	BEL 3	GRE 22	NZL	ESP	JPN		9th	58
2023	Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT	Hyundai i20 N Rally1	MON 8	SWE 7	MEX Ret	CRO 3	POR 3	ITA 2	KEN 12	EST 3	FIN Ret	GRE 5	CHL Ret	EUR Ret	JPN 4		6th	113
2024	Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT	Hyundai i20 N Rally1	MON	SWE 1	KEN 12	CRO	POR	ITA	POL	LAT Ret	FIN 43	GRE	CHL Ret	EUR	JPN		12th	33

SWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos.	Points
2012	Printsport	Ford Fiesta S2000	MON	SWE	POR	NZL	FIN 5	GBR	FRA	ESP	12th	10

WRC-2 results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2013	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	MON Ret	SWE	MEX	POR 1	ARG	GRE	ITA								16th	25
2013	Esapekka Lappi	Škoda Fabia S2000								FIN 11	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR		16th	25
2015	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR 2	ITA 9	POL 1	FIN 1	GER 13	AUS	FRA 2	ESP Ret	GBR		3rd	88
2016	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE 3	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA 9	POL 3	FIN 1	GER 1	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR 1	AUS 1	1st	132
2021	Movisport	Volkswagen Polo GTI R5	MON	ARC 1	CRO	POR 1	ITA	KEN	EST	BEL	GRE	FIN	ESP	MNZ			7th	59

ERC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Points
2012	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	AUT	ITA	CRO	BUL	BEL	TUR	POR	CZE	ESP	POL 1	SUI		,	39
2013	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	JÄN	LIE	CAN	AZO	COR	YPR	ROM	ZLÍ Ret	POL	CRO	SAN 2	VAL 1	5th	64
2014	Škoda Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	JÄN	LIE 1	ACR 4	IRE 1	AZO	YPR Ret	EST 5	CZE Ret	CYP	VAL 1	COR Ret		1st	162

APRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pos.	Points
2013	Team MRF	Škoda Fabia S2000	NZL 1	NCL Ret	AUS 1	MYS Ret	JPN Ret	CHN 1	2nd	117

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Rajd Polski 2015 Esapekka Lappi 01.jpg by Makary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Esapekka Lappi Rally Finland 2017 Saalahti.JPG by Antti Leppänen, CC BY 4.0

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