| Teemu Suninen | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1 February 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Tuusula, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: |  Finnish | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years: | 2014–Present | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Races: | 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Championships: | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins: | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums: | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stagewins: | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Points: | 304 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Race: | 2023 Central European Rally
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Teemu Suninen (pronounced as /fi/; born 1 February 1994) is a Finnish rally driver.[1] He currently competes part time for the Hyundai team in the World Rally Championship (WRC).
Suninen won the WRC-3 class in the 2014 Rally Finland and 2015 Rally Italia Sardegna driving a Citroën DS3 R3T, and won the WRC-2 class in the 2015 Wales Rally GB driving a Škoda Fabia S2000.
The Finn competed full-time at the 2016 World Rally Championship-2 with a Škoda Fabia R5. He won at Mexico with TGS Worldwide, and at Italy and Poland with Oreca, finishing third in the drivers' championship behind Esapekka Lappi and Elfyn Evans.
For the 2017 World Rally Championship-2, he joined M-Sport to drive a Ford Fiesta R5. He scored a win at Spain and three runner-up finishes, ranking third in points behind Pontus Tidemand and Eric Camilli.
Suninen will do a double program with M-Sport in 2018, entering some races with a Ford Fiesta WRC and the rest with a Ford Fiesta R5.
| Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | AKK Sports Team Finland | Citroën DS3 R3T | MON | SWE | MEX | POR | ARG | ITA | POL | FIN 1 | GER | AUS | FRA | ESP | GBR | 8th | 25 | |
| 2015 | Team Oreca | Citroën DS3 R3T | MON | SWE | MEX | ARG | POR Ret | ITA 1 | POL | FIN 11 | GER | AUS | FRA | ESP | GBR | 9th | 25 |