# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/timo-salonen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:29:13.025Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/timo-salonen"
name: "Timo Salonen"
slug: "timo-salonen"
description: "Timo Olavi Salonen is a Finnish former rally driver who won the 1985 World Rally Championship season for Peugeot. It was commented of him that he stood out from other drivers, because he was overweight, wore thick glasses and smoked heavily, but still remained one of the fastest and most competitive drivers in the sport. He was also known for his relaxed attitude and for his habit of steering his rally car with one hand only. These factors led to the nickname Löysä (\"Slack\").\nWith his 11 rally wins he remained the most successful driver of Group B era (1983–1986) of WRC."
tagline: "Finnish rally driver and 1985 World Rally Championship winner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Timo_Salonen_-_Peugeot_205_Turbo_16_(1985_Rallye_Sanremo).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1951-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.33387866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3803012/"
    handle:    "nm3803012"
sources:
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    title: "Timo Salonen"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Salonen"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Salonen"
    title: "Timo Salonen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Salonen"
    title: "Timo Salonen"
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    title: "Timo Salonen"
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    title: "Timo Salonen"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Salonen"
    title: "Timo Salonen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump