Urmo Aava

Urmo Aava

Aava in 2021
Personal information
Nationality	Estonian
Born	(1979-02-02) 2 February 1979 Tallinn, Estonia
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2002–2009
Co-driver	Toomas Kitsing Kuldar Sikk
Teams	World Rally Team Estonia, Stobart Ford
Rallies	51
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	5
Total points	17
First rally	2002 Rally Finland
Last rally	2009 Rally Finland

Urmo Aava (born 2 February 1979) is a former Estonian rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship between 2002 and 2009. His regular co-driver was Kuldar Sikk, who later became Ott Tänak's co-driver.

Career

Aava driving Citroën C4 WRC in 2008.

Urmo Aava spent five years from 2003 in the Junior World Rally Championship driving for the successful Suzuki Junior World Rally Team. In this time his results improved, culminating in two runner-up positions in the final standings of the JWRC in 2006 and 2007. 2007 also saw sporadic outings in a privately run Mitsubishi Lancer WRC. In two of these events (Finland and New Zealand) he scored points.

For the 2008 season, Aava has negotiated a deal to compete 10 rounds in a Citroën C4 WRC car under the name 'World Rally Team Estonia' and with support from Citroën Sport Technologies. Aava showed promise in 2008 Jordan Rally, when he was running in 5th place before mechanical problems on the final day forced him to retire. Sardinia saw a steady run to 8th place and Aava's first points of the season. The next rally in Greece was even better. Two stage wins (helped by a favourable road position) demonstrated his pace and a 4th-place resulted – his best WRC result to date. Followed by a 5th place at New Zealand's rally.

WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2002	Urmo Aava	Ford Focus RS WRC	MON	SWE	FRA	ESP	CYP	ARG	GRE	KEN	FIN Ret	GER	ITA	NZL	AUS	GBR			–	0
2003	Urmo Aava	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON 20	SWE	TUR Ret	NZL	ARG	GRE 19	CYP	GER	FIN 25	AUS	ITA Ret	FRA	ESP 24	GBR Ret			–	0
2004	Urmo Aava	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON 12	SWE	MEX	NZL	CYP	GRE Ret	TUR 16	ARG	FIN 23	GER	JPN	GBR Ret	ITA Ret	FRA	ESP Ret	AUS	–	0
2005	Urmo Aava	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON Ret	SWE	MEX	NZL	ITA 19	CYP	TUR	GRE 19	ARG	FIN 16	GER Ret	GBR	JPN	FRA 19	ESP 21	AUS	–	0
2006	Urmo Aava	Suzuki Swift S1600	MON	SWE 22	MEX	ESP	FRA 17	ARG	ITA 18	GRE	GER	FIN DSQ	JPN	CYP	TUR 16	AUS	NZL	GBR 42	–	0
2007	Urmo Aava	Suzuki Swift S1600	MON	SWE	NOR 28	MEX	POR 15	ARG	ITA 13			GER 12		ESP 18	FRA Ret	JPN 15	IRE	GBR	19th	3
		Mitsubishi Lancer WRC05								GRE 14	FIN 7		NZL 8
2008	World Rally Team Estonia	Citroën C4 WRC	MON	SWE 18	MEX	ARG	JOR Ret	ITA 8	GRE 4	TUR Ret	FIN 15	GER 8	NZL 5	ESP Ret	FRA 7	JPN	GBR		11th	13
2009	Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	IRE 10	NOR 8	CYP	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	POL									19th	1
	Urmo Aava	Honda Civic Type-R R3									FIN 29	AUS	ESP	GBR

JWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Pos.	Points
2003	Urmo Aava	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON 4	TUR Ret	GRE 3	FIN 4	ITA Ret	ESP 5	GBR Ret			4th	20
2004	Urmo Aava	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON 2	GRE Ret	TUR 5	FIN 5	GBR Ret	ITA Ret	ESP Ret			8th	16
2005	Urmo Aava	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON Ret	MEX	ITA 2	GRE 3	FIN 2	GER Ret	FRA 4	ESP 4		4th	32
2006	Urmo Aava	Suzuki Swift S1600	SWE 3	ESP	FRA 2	ARG	ITA 3	GER	FIN DSQ	TUR 1	GBR 9	2nd	31
2007	Urmo Aava	Suzuki Swift S1600	NOR 3	POR 2	ITA 1	FIN	GER 2	ESP 3	FRA Ret			2nd	38

External links

• Stats at Jonkka's World Rally Archive
• Stats at ewrc-results.com