Competitors
Nr. Driver/Co-driver Team/Entrant Country Car Group Class
7 Siim Plangi / Marek Sarapuu ASRT EST / EST Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X R4 2

Rally Kurzeme 2012 - Siim Plangi / Marek Sarapuu - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X. Photo: www.ewrc.cz

The 20-year-old Estonian pilot has gained experience not only in the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian races, but also in the WRC. He started his rally racing career in 2008 with the full-drive Subaru Impreza. SiimPlangi spent the next seasons in the 2WD class with Citroen C2R2 and Honda Civic TypeR cars and gained notable achievements. For the first time Plangi participated in the WRC in 2009 at the age of 17, and in the complicated and hard UK rally took the 44th place. In 2001 the Estonian pilot participated in the UK Championship and won the high 7th place in the total valuation, however in the IRC round in Scotland he finished as the 6th in the total valuation. In 2012 Plangi once again choose to pilot full-drive cars and started to win rallies — at the beginning of the season he won the Estonian Championship roundOtepaaTalveralli, but in summer — MulgiRalli, that allowed the pilot to get bronze in the Estonian Championship.