Kalle Rovanpera back to Rallylegend with Toyota Starlet

Kalle Rovanperä wanted to return to San Marino. Strongly. So, the two-time world rally champion, who won his first title in 2022 at 20 years and 1 day—the youngest world champion ever—has accepted the offer to return to San Marino special stages, and he will do so with a sensational 1984 Toyota Starlet KP of the BMV Rally Team, with Juuso Nordgren by his side.

The Toyota Starlet is the car that began Kalle Rovanperä’s story, specially set up in 2008 to allow an eight-year-old driver to drive it. Again, it was with the Starlet that he took part in a rally in Finland in 2015, the Keuruu Miniralli.

A sort of return to his roots. Of course, the Toyota Starlet KP he will use at Rallylegend 2025 is slightly different. It’s a “special one,” with a 2.5-liter engine, more than 360 horsepower, and a sequential gearbox.

Everything needed to have fun and thrill the Rallylegend crowd once again.

After the 2022 and 2023 titles with the Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 by Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, Kalle is fighting for his third world title this year.

He had celebrated his first world title, the 2022 one, won just a few days earlier, at Rallylegend. A great exclusive for the San Marino event, and also the occasion where Kalle Rovanperä fell in love with Rallylegend, where he drove wild in a Toyota Celica ST 185.

With a huge smile, Kalle had stated at the end of Rallylegend 2022: “From what I’d been told, I thought Rallylegend was a great and fun event. Now that I’ve experienced it, I can say it’s much, much better and more fun than I imagined. The engaging atmosphere, the fantastic crowd, legendary drivers, amazing cars, a great passion for rallying: I’ve never experienced an event like it.”