Leo Kinnunen is a racing driver from Finland who last raced in Formula 1 for Surtees. Kinnunen has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 1 start.[1]
A Racer Rating of 2,942 ranks Kinnunen 3003th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 1974-06-09 | Scandinavian Raceway | DNF | −91 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | ▸Formula 1 | Surtees | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P21 | −91 | 2,942 |
Leo Kinnunen was a Finnish racing driver and the first Formula One driver from his country. His championship-level career, however, consisted of a single start in the 1974 season, driving for Surtees. He finished 21st in that outing and did not score points or podiums in Formula 1.[1]
The brevity of Kinnunen's single-seater record masks a deeper involvement in motorsport beyond what the Formula 1 entry captures. The headlines suggest a substantial career in sportscar and endurance racing, most notably at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, though those results do not appear in this database's series records and therefore fall outside the scope of comparative analysis here. The Surtees team for which he drove in 1974 was not a competitive force at that time, fielding 30 drivers across its history with no race wins to its name. Kinnunen's single attempt at the sport's highest level proved unsuccessful, and he retired from racing after that year.[2]