He is currently teamed with Martin Järveoja and is competing for Hyundai Motorsport in the World Rally Championship.

[3] In September 2009 Tänak won the European Pirelli Star Driver shootout held in Austria.

[4] This gave him the opportunity to compete six rounds of the 2010 World Rally Championship season in PWRC support category programme.

[6] In 2011, Tänak drove 7 rallies with a Ford Fiesta S2000, prepared by MM-Motorsport team under Markko Märtin's instructions.

But with victories in Germany and France, he put himself back into title contention, arriving in Spain only 3 points behind leader Juho Hänninen.

However, he hit a rock on the first stage, breaking his Fiesta S2000's front crossmember, and had to restart under SupeRally rules, meaning that he basically lost all of his chances of becoming the champion.

He scored his first podium in Italy, the penultimate round of the season, by finishing 3rd behind winner Mikko Hirvonen and Evgeny Novikov.

In the year 2013, Tänak was no longer a part of M-Sport World Rally Team and was forced to leave the WRC stage.

At the season finale, Saaremaa Rally, Tänak led the event at the penultimate stage by just 4.4 seconds ahead of Georg Gross.

Tänak joined the DMACK World Rally Team in 2014, which he drove under WRC2, and M-Sport, where he took part in Sweden, Portugal and Sardegna with a Ford Fiesta RS WRC.

Having dominated most of the Rally Poland, Tänak suffered puncture in the penultimate stage and lost out to eventual winner Andreas Mikkelsen.

[19] The Estonian went on to finish the final events of the year third (Spain), second (Wales) and sixth (Australia), guaranteeing him overall third place in the championship behind teammate Ogier and Thierry Neuville.

[20] Before the 2018 season Tänak signed a two-year deal with Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, run by 4-time world champion Tommi Mäkinen.

While many speculated that the Estonian would take considerable time to get used to the team and the car, Tänak proved people wrong by showing immediate speed in the Toyota - finishing second in the opening round in Monte Carlo, following it up with another podium in Corsica and winning in Argentina, having led from day one by a strong margin.

Tänak replicated his earlier success in Argentina with three consecutive rally wins in Finland, Germany and Turkey, putting him in striking distance for the drivers championship behind Ogier and Neuville with three events left.

Jari-Matti Latvala's win in the final rally meant that Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT won the constructors championship for the first time since 1999.

[24] Continuing the overall trend from the previous two seasons, Ott Tänak finished third in Monte Carlo behind rivals Thierry Neuville and Sebastien Ogier.

He then went on to win in Sweden, marking the first time Ott had led the points standings in the WRC driver's championship.

[31] Tänak's title defence began with a major shunt at the Monte Carlo Rally, with his Hyundai i20 bottoming out on a bump in Stage 4 and flying off a 40 metre high cliff at 180 km/h, rolling end-over-end through a series of trees before landing on the road below – with both him and Järveoja remarkably walking away uninjured.

[37] Tänak also couldn't participate in the Final event of the year, the 2021 Rally Monza, due to "personal family matters".

With new regulations mandating the use of a hybrid system in place for 2022 and onwards, Hyundai World Rally Team faced a new challenge.

The second round, Rally Sweden, saw Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja take an early lead, before losing it to Craig Breen and James Fulton on Friday evening.

From that point the real misfortune began, one failure after another and poor reliability of Ford Puma ended his championship hopes.