Ari Vatanen

Acting

Ari Vatanen

Born 1952-04-27 · Tuupovaara, Finland

Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen is a Finnish rally driver turned politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2009. Vatanen won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1981 and the Paris Dakar Rally four times. Since 2013 Vatanen has been the President of the Estonian Autosport Union.

Acting credits

Camping poster
5.5

Plastic surgeon Michel Saint-Josse is on his way to Spain where he hopes to spend a stress-free holiday in a luxury hotel with his teenage daughter Vanessa. When his car breaks down near a camping, Michel accepts the offer of help from an extrovert gigolo camper named Patrick Chirac. Whilst their car is being repaired, Michel and Vanessa agree to stay in Patrick’s well proportioned tent, not knowing that, thanks to a series of mishaps, it will be their home for several days...

Camping

2006

Riding Balls of Fire Group B poster
8.0

Thirty years after the end of Group B rallying, film-maker Helmut Deimel has launched his latest film on rallying’s wildest era. For “Riding Balls of Fire”, the Austrian legend behind the hugely popular “Evolution of Rallying” has gathered together the finest archive footage of the 500 bhp Group B supercars in their prime. Watching this film really shows the extreme pace of evolution of the cars and the sport in the three short years from 1983 to 1986.

Riding Balls of Fire Group B

2016

Jean Todt: The Method poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jean Todt: The Method

2022

Climb Dance poster
8.1

Climb Dance is a famous cinéma vérité short film, which features Finnish rally driver Ari Vatanen setting a record time in a highly modified four-wheel drive, all-wheel steering Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 GR at the 1988 Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in Colorado, USA. The film was produced by Peugeot and directed by Jean Louis Mourey. The record time set was 10:47.77.

Climb Dance

1988

Η Ακρόπολη σε... τροχούς poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Η Ακρόπολη σε... τροχούς

1981

Queen of Speed poster
7.2

A documentary on the life of rally driver Michèle Mouton.

Queen of Speed

2021

Madness on Wheels poster
8.0

In the 1980s rallying was more popular than Formula 1. 'Group B' machines had taken the world by storm. De-regulation opened the way for the most exciting cars ever to hit the motor sport scene. Nothing like it has ever happened since. 'This is the fastest rallying there has ever been' - Peter Foubister. For four wild and crazy years manufacturers scrambled to build ever more powerful cars to be driven by fearless mavericks who could handle the extreme power. The sport was heading out of control and the unregulated mayhem ended abruptly in 1986 after a series of horrific tragedies. This is the story of when fans, ambition, politics and cars collided.

Madness on Wheels

2012

Rallying: The Killer Years poster
8.0

In the 1980s rallying was more popular than Formula 1. However the sport was heading out of control and the unregulated mayhem would end abruptly after a series of horrific tragedies.

Rallying: The Killer Years

2012

No artwork available
NR

Watch the action from Mintex, Circuit of Ireland, Welsh, Scottish and Manx Rallies as the full story unfolds of the 1980 British Open Rally Championship.

The Vatanen Touch

2003