Toni Vilander has had numerous successes with AF Corse, winning the 2012 and 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans races in the LMGTE Pro class, as well as the FIA World Endurance Cup for GT Drivers in 2014 and the GT2 class championship of the FIA GT Championship in 2007 and 2008.
12 Facts About Toni Vilander
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Toni Vilander got the call-up from Coloni to be Bruni's temporary substitute and competed in the Italian and Belgian rounds of the championship.
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Toni Vilander proved a competent midfield runner, finishing 15th, 8th, 14th and 13th in the four races in which he took part.
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Toni Vilander finished 25th overall in the series' inaugural year with no points, but was more successful in Italian Formula 3000, where he finished fourth with 23 points, and more successful still in Italian GT2, where he was crowned champion with his co-driver Alessandro Pier Guidi, scoring a total of 182 points.
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Toni Vilander won the GT1 class of the 2006 Italian GT Championship with Giannoccaro, driving a Maserati MC12.
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Toni Vilander competed in the American Le Mans Series alongside Jaime Melo in a Ferrari 458 Italia GTC for Risi Competizione.
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Toni Vilander has competed in six Le Mans 24 Hours races from 2008 onwards, driving Ferraris for the AF Corse team.
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Toni Vilander was reunited with Bruni and Fisichella once more for the 2014 race, and the trio took another class victory.
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Toni Vilander made his debut in the FIA GT1 World Championship in 2012, again driving a Ferrari 458 Italia for AF Corse alongside Filip Salaquarda.
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Toni Vilander did not return to the series in 2013 due to his increased World Endurance Championship commitments for the team.
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Toni Vilander has competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship since the series was launched in 2012, having made sporadic appearances in the interim Intercontinental Le Mans Cup series which preceded it.
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On 5 February 2017, Toni Vilander won the 2017 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, Australia for Australian team Maranello Motorsport driving with multiple Bathurst 1000 winners Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup in a Ferrari 488 GT3 to become the second Finnish driver to win the Bathurst 12 Hour after Mika Salo had won the event in 2014.