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Jani Paasonen

Finnish rally driver

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ2250173 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jani Petteri Paasonen (born 11 April 1975) is a Finnish rally driver. He used to compete in the World Rally Championship (WRC) with Škoda Motorsport.

Editorial summary

“Jani Paasonen” enters the record as finnish rally driver. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jani, Paasonen and Finnish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-04-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jani, Paasonen and Finnish.
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“Jani Paasonen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jani, Paasonen and Finnish provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2250173. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jani Paasonen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.