Rally Hall of Fame

The Rally Hall of Fame is a hall of fame for famous rally drivers and other persons who have had a great influence on rallying. The exhibition is part of the automobile and road museum Mobilia located at Kangasala, near the city of Tampere, in central Finland.

The Hall of Fame was opened on 29 April 2010 with four inductees; Erik Carlsson, Paddy Hopkirk, Rauno Aaltonen and Timo Mäkinen.^[1] Walter Röhrl and Hannu Mikkola were elected in 2011,^[2] and Michèle Mouton and Carlos Sainz in 2012.^[3] New nominations are introduced every year during the Rally Finland.^[1]

The selections are made by an international committee led by AKK-Motorsport, Finland's representative in the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). In 2011, the selection committee consisted of five persons: Mouton, Kari O. Sohlberg (chairman of AKK), Neil Duncanson (owner of North One Television), Martin Holmes (motorsport journalist) and Pekka Honkanen (director of the Sports Museum Foundation of Finland).^[1]

Members edit

Name	Year elected
Rauno Aaltonen	2010
Erik Carlsson	2010
Paddy Hopkirk	2010
Timo Mäkinen	2010
Hannu Mikkola	2011
Walter Röhrl	2011
Michèle Mouton	2012
Carlos Sainz	2012
Andrew Cowan	2013
Tommi Mäkinen	2013
Björn Waldegård	2013
Stig Blomqvist	2014
David Richards	2014
Ari Vatanen	2014
Juha Kankkunen	2015
Colin McRae	2015
Sandro Munari	2015
Henri Toivonen	2016
Shekhar Mehta	2017
Markku Alén	2018
Ove Andersson	2018
Reinhard Klein	2018
Simo Lampinen	2018
Jean Todt	2019
Seppo Harjanne	2019
Timo Salonen	2019