# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pekka-paivarinta-q550153
# Generated: 2026-08-15T21:44:31.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pekka-paivarinta-q550153"
name: "Pekka Päivärinta"
slug: "pekka-paivarinta-q550153"
description: "Pekka Päivärinta is a Finnish sidecar motorcycle racer, who with passenger Timo Karttiala, was the 2008 Superside FIM World Sidecar Champion. Päivärinta rode a Suzuki GSXR1000 powered LCR as part of Team Suzuki Finland and is the first Finn to win a world sidecar title. Päivärinta also won the 2010, 2011 and 2013 FIM Sidecar World Championship, with Swiss passenger Adolf Hänni and 2016 with Kirsi Kainulainen on a LCR BMW."
tagline: "Finnish motorcycle racer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pekka_P%C3%A4iv%C3%A4rinta_(2018)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.63
  momentum:             17
  historical:           5.670986666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3920987/"
    handle:    "nm3920987"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/pekka.paivarinta.44"
    handle:    "pekka.paivarinta.44"
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_P%C3%A4iv%C3%A4rinta_(ratamoottoripy%C3%B6r%C3%A4ilij%C3%A4)"
    title: "Pekka Päivärinta (ratamoottoripyöräilijä)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_P%C3%A4iv%C3%A4rinta_(Rennfahrer)"
    title: "Pekka Päivärinta (Rennfahrer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_P%C3%A4iv%C3%A4rinta_(motorcyclist)"
    title: "Pekka Päivärinta (motorcyclist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_P%C3%A4iv%C3%A4rinta_(mc-f%C3%B6rare)"
    title: "Pekka Päivärinta (mc-förare)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_P%C3%A4iv%C3%A4rinta"
    title: "Pekka Päivärinta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%8F%D0%B9%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Пяйвяринта, Пекка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q550153"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump