Kalle Rovanpera becomes youngest driver to win the World Rally Championship

Toyota WRT driver Kalle Rovanpera of Finland celebrates with a new World Rally Championship title during the 2022 Rally New Zealand at Jack Ridge in the outskits of Auckland on October 2, 2022. (Photo by John COWPLAND / AFP) (Photo by JOHN COWPLAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Records broken - even shattered as Finland’s Kalle Rovanpera became the youngest ever driver to win the World Rally Championship. 

Celebrating his 22nd birthday on Saturday’s leg, he went on to take his Toyota Gazoo Racing Yaris Rally1 to victory on the Repco Rally New Zealand and with maximum points from the Power Stage secured the title and Finland’s first since Marcus Gronholm’s victory twenty years ago.