Total domination for Niinemäe

The Estonian DMack Trophy has a new champion in 2015, Miko-Ove Niinemäe and Martin Valter, who, with four wins in a row already in the championship, have secured the title after Rally Tallinn 2015.

The championship, also called Estonian Junior Championship, is run between drivers aged 17-25 and in 1.6 litre front-wheel drive cars. For equality, all cars have to run on DMack tyres.

The champion and his Peugeot 208 R2 after Rally Tallinn 2015. Photo: instagram

The winners, Niinemäe-Valter, won all four consecutive events and they also managed to gather lots of stage wins, which give you extra points in the championship. All this gave them enough points to be out of reach for the other competitors, handing them the title even with two more events to go, Tartu Rally and Saaremaa Rally.

Niinemäe and Valter managed to gather a total of 131 so far, which is a staggering 83 points ahead of their closest competitor, Kevin Kuusik, with 48 points.  In third place are Kenneth Sepp – Tanel Kasesalu with 41 points.

Miko Niinemäe:

“I’m very pleased with the result and, to be honest, we didn’t expect to take the title so early into the season. Taking a long break from rallying before this season made it a lot more difficult, but before the season we did a lot of work and all of it has paid off.

Of course we calculated before the rally that we could take the title here, but we tried to not think of it too much. In that sense the first three rallies were a bit easier.

I’d like to thank my team for an excellent car, my co-driver Martin Valter, Urmo Aava, who helped with the setup of the car, my family, who have been a lot of help and support and finally all of my supporters, who made this season possible.”