Michael Mällinen Explained

Michael Mällinen (born March 4, 1958) is a racecar driver from the United States.

He raced in formula car and sports prototype series in IMSA, ALMS, Atlantic Championship, and SCCA. Mällinen won several US National titles and Championships in the Formula Atlantic series.

Mällinen had 65 starts with 18 wins, 36 podiums, 10 poles, and 10 fastest laps during his career.

Mällinen began his racing career in the 1990s driving Formula Ford and sports racers built by Lola cars in SCCA, Conference and endurance series.

In 2004, he won the SCCA C Sports Racer championship in the northeast division. Mällinen began racing Formula Atlantic in 2005. In 2006, he was the runner up in the Southeast SCCA Formula Atlantic championship driving a Ralt RT41. In 2007, he finished third in Formula Atlantic and made his debut in IMSA Lites in the L2 class driving a Stohr sports prototype. In 2008, Mällinen raced in the IMSA Lites L1 class driving an Élan Motorsport Technologies DP02 sports prototype and won the 2008 Formula Atlantic championship driving a Swift Engineering TRD 014.a for Swan Racing in the southeast division. In 2009 Mällinen made his debut in the IMSA Atlantic Championship racing for Swan Racing and won the Championship (C2) with 4 wins and 3 pole positions. In 2010, Mällinen won the American Road Race of Champions, finished third in the SCCA Formula Atlantic national championship series and third in the SCCA National Championship Runoffs driving a Swift Engineering TRD 014.a for Swan Racing. In 2010, Mällinen won 7 races and 8 pole positions. In 2011, Mällinen won the 2011 US National Championship, SCCA National Championship Runoffs, Division Championship, June Sprints, and the Triple Crown. Mällinen was the recipient of the Sports Car Club of America's 2011 Super Sweep Award in recognition of winning the National Championship, National Championship Runoffs, Division Title and various other races in a single season. In 2012, Mällinen finished second in the SCCA National Championship Runoffs driving a Swift Engineering TRD 014.a for Swan Racing. In 2013, Mällinen finished third in the SCCA National Championship Runoffs driving a Swift Engineering Cosworth 016.a for Swan Racing. In 2014 at Laguna Seca, Mällinen started from pole position and retired while leading the race due to a gearbox issue. And again, in 2015 at Daytona, Mällinen started from second and retired while leading with a mechanical issue. In 2020 at Road America, Mällinen finished sixth in the SCCA National Championship Runoffs driving a Swift Engineering TRD 016.a for Swan Racing.

Racing record

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

Year	Car	Finish	Start	Status
2004	Radical SR3	8	13	Running
2005	Stohr 05CT	13	5	Retired
2006	Ralt RT41	8	11	Retired
2007	Ralt RT41	13	12	Retired
2008	Swift 014.a	9	6	Retired
2010	Swift 014.a	3	3	Running
2011	Swift 014.a	1	1	Running
2012	Swift 014.a	2	3	Running
2013	Swift 016.a	3	3	Running
2014	Swift 016.a	11	1	Retired
2015	Swift 016.a	10	2	Retired
2020	Swift 016.a	6	5	Running

American open–wheel racing results

(key)

Atlantic Championship

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2009	Swan Racing	SEB	UTA	NJ1	NJ2	LIM	ACC1	ACC2	MDO	TRR	MOS	ATL	LS	N.C.	0
2009 C2	Swan Racing	SEB	UTA	NJ1	NJ2	LIM	ACC1	ACC2	MDO	TRR	MOS	ATL	LS	1st	93
2014	Swan Racing	ATL1	ATL2	WGI1	WGI2	VIR1	VIR2	MDO1	MDO2	TOM1	TOM2			11th	160

American sports prototype racing results

(key)

IMSA Lites Championship

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Michael Mällinen".

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2007	PVM Racing	SEB1	SEB2	MMP1	MMP2	LIM1	LIM2	MOS1	MOS2	ATL1	ATL2	LS1	LS2	9th	20
2008	Leslie Racing	SEB1	SEB2	MMP1	MMP2	LIM1	LIM2	MOS1	MOS2	ATL1	ATL2	LS1	LS2	20th	15