Toni Gardemeister
Gardemeister at the 2008 Rally of New Zealand
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| Personal information | |
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| Nationality |
 Finnish |
| Born |
31 March 1975 Kouvola, Finland |
| World Rally Championship record | |
| Active years | 1996–2008, 2010 |
| Teams | SEAT, Mitsubishi, Škoda, Ford, Suzuki |
| Rallies | 112 |
| Championships | 0 |
| Rally wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 6 |
| Stage wins | 16 |
| Total points | 128 |
| First rally | 1996 Rally Finland |
| Last rally | 2010 Rally Finland |
Toni Gardemeister (born 31 March 1975) is a Finnish professional rally driver in the World Rally Championship. After previously competing for SEAT's, Mitsubishi's, Škoda's and Ford's factory teams, as well as for privateer teams, he joined the Suzuki World Rally Team for the 2008 season.
From the outset of his career Gardemeister had shown himself as a driver of some promise. He won the Finnish Rally Championship Group a (under 2000 cc) title in 1997 behind the wheel of a Nissan Sunny and was driving for the Spanish car firm SEAT for limited outings in 1998 with the Ibiza.
He was to become a world championship mainstay by the year 2000 in the firm's Córdoba WRC as team-mate to former world champion Didier Auriol. Gardemeister's impressive drives include a third place in New Zealand in 1999, and a fourth place on the 2000 Monte Carlo Rally.
With SEAT's surprise withdrawal from the 'works' scene for 2001 came two privateer opportunities in a Peugeot 206 WRC, in which Gardemeister scored drivers' points on both the Monte Carlo Rally and the Swedish Rally, finishing fifth and fourth, respectively.
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