Autographs of Ari Vatanen

Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen (pronounced ⓘ; born 27 April 1952) is a Finnish rally driver turned politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2009. He won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1981 and the Paris Dakar Rally four times. In addition, he won the 1997 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies.
Vatanen's debut year in rallying was 1970, and he debuted in the World Rally Championship at the 1974 1000 Lakes Rally. In that year he won the Nortti Rally in an Opel Ascona, beating Hannu Mikkola in the process, which brought him to wider attention. His first international rally was the 1975 Rothmans 747 Rally in Jamaica driving a Datsun 120Y. He placed 12th with co-driver Gerry Phillips. At the end of that season he was offered his first professional drive, in a Ford Escort RS1800, on the RAC Rally. He crashed out on the second day, but by then he had impressed Ford team manager Stuart Turner enough to be offered a seat in the team for the British Rally Championship the following year.
In the 1976 Scottish Rally (part of the British Rally Championship), the Ford works team replaced a broken differential in Ari Vatanen's Mk2 Escort RS 1800 with one they removed from a spectator's Ford Capri. The change was caught on film in a documentary of the event, a copy of which is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02RaQAvzMps, from 21 minutes to 25 minutes in.. Vatanen did not finish the Scottish Rally, but he won the championship, a feat he repeated in 1980, co-driven by David Richards, who later became chairman of Prodrive. Between 1977 and 1980, Vatanen also competed in selected World Championship events, initially for the official Ford team and then, after its withdrawal from the sport at the end of 1979, for the semi-private Rothmans Rally Team. He took his debut win at the 1980 Acropolis Rally and became the World Rally Champion in 1981.
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Traded items with a signature of Ari Vatanen

The most expensive item with a signature of Ari Vatanen (SIGNED ARI VATANEN EVERY SECOND COUNTS AUTOBIOGRAPHY BOOK RALLY GROUPB AUTOGRAPH) was sold in January 2024 for £125.00 while the cheapest item (Ari Vatanen & Russell Brookes Hand Signed Motor Sport FDC Ford & Opel Rally Car) found a new owner for £2.99 in July 2018. The month with the most items sold (7) was May 2020 with an average selling price of £49.99 for an autographed item of Ari Vatanen. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2024 with £125.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £4.99 was March 2014. In average, an autographed item from Ari Vatanen is worth £30.51.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Ari Vatanen were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	1992 SIGNED Ari Vatanen Paris-Dakar Rally Sisu VALMET 6600E Tractor POSTER vtg	£14.90
	1992 SIGNED Ari Vatanen Paris-Dakar Rally Sisu VALMET 6600E Tractor POSTER vtg	£15.52
	Ari Vatanen Signed FIRST UK EDITION EVERY SECOND COUNTS PB 1988	£108.07
	Ari Vatanen - WRC Driver - Signed Photograph * Proof *	£12.75
	Ari Vatanen And Max Vatanen Signed Hero Card Photo Postcard WRC World Rally	£30.52
	Ari Vatanen Ford Escort RS Cosworth 1994 Signed Photograph *Proof & COA*	£45.00
	Ari Vatanen Ford Escort RS1800 Swedish Rally 1982 Signed Photograph *Proof & COA	£45.00
	Ari Vatanen Hand Signed Racing Balaclava,World Rally Champion , Ford , Peugot	£78.90
	Ari Vatanen SIGNED 12x8 Ford Escort RS1800 Safari Rally 1981	£35.99
	Ari Vatanen Signed Autobiography 28.4.1989 Unread. "Every Second Counts"	£107.04
	Ari Vatanen Signed Photo WRC World Rally Peugeot 205 405 Pikes Peak Autograph	£30.23
	Ari Vatanen signed rally postcard Peugeot Sport	£16.79
	Ari Vatanen SIGNED WRC World Rally Peugeot 205 Ford Escort photo	£34.61
	COA SIGNED MAX & ARI VATANEN DRIVERS CARD NEW CONDITION	£15.55
	The Welsh Rally Hardback Book (Signed By Ari Vatanen)	£56.08