Andreas Bakkerud

Andreas Bakkerud
Andreas Bakkerud
	Bakkerud in March 2018
Nationality	Norwegian
Born	10 October 1991 (age 30); Bergen, Norway
FIA World Rallycross Championship career
Debut season	2014–2020
Car number	13
Former teams	Olsbergs MSE; Hoonigan Racing Division; Monster Energy RX Cartel
Starts	71
Wins	7
Podiums	30
Best finish	2nd in 2019
FIA ERX Supercar Championship
Years active	2013, 2021
Former teams	Bakkerud Motorsport; ES Motorsport
Starts	13
Championships	1 (2021)
Wins	3
Podiums	5
FIA ERX Super1600 Championship
Years active	2011–2012
Former teams
Starts	20
Championships	2 (2011, 2012)
Wins	7
Podiums	15
FIA ERX Division 1A Championship
Years active	–
Former teams
Starts	12
Wins	1
Podiums	4
Best finish	3rd in

Andreas Bakkerud (born 10 October 1991) is a rallycross driver from Bergen, Norway. He has competed in the FIA Rallycross Supercar class since 2013 in both Euro RX and World RX. He became European Champion in 2021.

Biography[]

Bakkerud won the FIA European Rallycross Champion in the Super1600 category twice, in 2011 and 2012.

He entered the FIA European Rallycross Supercar class in 2013 with a private Citroën DS3, finishing fourth with two wins.

In 2014 he joined the FIA World Rallycross Championship Supercar class, driving an Ford-supported Olsbergs MSE Fiesta.^[1] He got two wins and three second-place finishes, and placed fifth in the overall standings. In 2015 he scored a win, three podiums and eight top 5s, which put him fourth in the Supercar drivers championship.

In 2016 Bakkerud moved to American outfit Hoonigan Racing Division, partnering team boss Ken Block.^[2] He claimed three wins and six podiums, earning a third place in the 2016 FIA World Rallycross Supercar standings.

On June 12, 2016 Bakkerud made rallycross history in Hell, Norway, during Round Five of the 2016 FIA World Rallycross Championship by dominating the entire event and bringing home a 1st overall finish. Bakkerud set numerous records on his outright domination that weekend by winning all four of his Qualifier races (no driver had ever won all four in a weekend previously) and then going on to storm to the top in both his Semi-final and the Final. The overall win was the first-ever for the all-new Ford Focus RS RX rallycross car that year (a racecar that was still in its first year of competition and development), the first-ever in World RX for Hoonigan Racing Division and the first-ever win at the Norway round of the World Championship by a Norwegian.^[3]

With the announcement that Hoonigan Racing would be withdrawing from the sport at the end of the 2017 season,^[4] Bakkerud was left to find a drive for the new season, an on 31 January 2018 announced that he would be joining the EKS Audi Sport team,^[5] driving an Audi S1 EKS RX quattro. He finished third in the 2018 season behind the dominant Volkswagens of Johan Kristoffersson and Petter Solberg, scoring six podiums, before EKS too pulled out of the championship.^[6]

Bakkerud would remain in World RX for 2019, teaming up with Liam Doran in the Monster Energy RX Cartel team, using the EKS Audi's.^[7]

Racing record[]

Bakkerud driving the Ford Fiesta Mk.6 of OlsbergsMSE at the 2015 World RX of Germany

Bakkerud driving the Ford Focus Mk.3 of Hoonigan Racing Division at the 2016 World RX of Norway

Bakkerud driving the Audi S1 Mk.1 of EKS RX at the 2018 World RX of Belgium

Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results[]

(key)

Division 1A[]

Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	ERX	Points
Peugeot 206	GBR	POR	FRA	HUN	AUT	SWE 13	BEL	GER	POL 2	CZE 5	13th	33
Peugeot 206	POR 2	FRA 10	GBR 6	HUN 4	SWE	FIN 6	BEL 8	GER 4			3rd	109
Renault Clio									POL 2	CZE 1	3rd	109

Super1600[]

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	ERX	Points
2011		Renault Clio	GBR 1	POR 1	FRA 2	NOR 2	SWE 6	BEL 2	NED 1	AUT 11	POL 3	CZE 1	1st	146
2012		Renault Twingo	GBR 2	FRA 1	AUT 2	HUN 1	NOR 6	SWE 3	BEL 7	NED 1	FIN 5	GER 2	1st	138

Supercar[]

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	ERX	Points
2013	Bakkerud Motorsport	Citroën DS3	GBR 12	POR 7	HUN 15	FIN 6	NOR 5	SWE 1	FRA 1	AUT 13	GER 2	4th	133
2021	ES Motorsport	Skoda Fabia	SWE 3	FRA 4	LAT 7	BEL 1						1st	90

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results[]

(key)

Supercar[]

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	WRX	Points
2014	Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta ST	POR 2	GBR 1	NOR 11	FIN 2	SWE 2	BEL 29	CAN 8	FRA 9	GER 11	ITA 6	TUR 1	ARG 6		5th	193
2015	Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta ST	POR 4	HOC 6	BEL 5	GBR 4	GER 5	SWE 3	CAN 5	NOR 11	FRA 8	BAR 10	TUR 2	ITA 1	ARG 7	4th	232
2016	Hoonigan Racing Division	Ford Focus RS	POR 4	HOC 12	BEL 14	GBR 6	NOR 1	SWE 1	CAN 2	FRA 2	BAR 7	LAT 4	GER 3	ARG 1		3rd	239
2017	Hoonigan Racing Division	Ford Focus RS	BAR 3	POR 10	HOC 14	BEL 6	GBR 3	NOR 2	SWE 2	CAN 13	FRA 4	LAT 4	GER 8	RSA 7		6th	194
2018	EKS Audi Sport	Audi S1	BAR 3	POR 4	BEL 6	GBR 2	NOR 6	SWE 2	CAN 7	FRA 2	LAT 8	USA 3	GER 3	RSA 7		3rd	237
2019	Monster Energy RX Cartel	Audi S1	UAE 15	3	2	GBR 2	NOR 8	7	1	5	LAT 3	2				2nd	211
2020	Monster Energy GCK RX Cartel	Renault Mégane R.S. RX	13	6	9	6	LAT 8	LAT 7	6	5						7th	121

References[]

^ "FIA World Rallycross Championship". rallycrossrx.com. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
^ "Bakkerud joins Block in all-new Hoonigan Racing Division team". Motorsport.com. 21 January 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
^ "Bakkerud Wins Norway World RX and Sets Records in First-Ever Win For The All New Ford Focus RS RX". hooniganracing.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
^ "Ford Performance and Hoonigan Racing Close World RX Programme After 2017 - FIA World Rallycross - The Checkered Flag". The Checkered Flag. 2017-10-04. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
^ "EKS Audi Sport set their sights on championship glory in 2018". The Checkered Flag. 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
^ "EKS CLOSES ITS RALLYCROSS CHAPTER". EKS RX. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
^ "BAKKERUD AND DORAN REUNITE WITH MONSTER ENERGY RX CARTEL". fiaworldrallycross.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2019.

External links[]

Sporting positions
Preceded by None	European Rallycross Super1600 Champion 2011-2012	Succeeded by Reinis Nitišs

[1] "FIA World Rallycross Championship". rallycrossrx.com. Retrieved 23 June 2016.

[2] "Bakkerud joins Block in all-new Hoonigan Racing Division team". Motorsport.com. 21 January 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2017.

[3] "Bakkerud Wins Norway World RX and Sets Records in First-Ever Win For The All New Ford Focus RS RX". hooniganracing.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2016.

[4] "Ford Performance and Hoonigan Racing Close World RX Programme After 2017 - FIA World Rallycross - The Checkered Flag". The Checkered Flag. 2017-10-04. Retrieved 2018-02-01.

[5] "EKS Audi Sport set their sights on championship glory in 2018". The Checkered Flag. 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2018-02-01.

[6] "EKS CLOSES ITS RALLYCROSS CHAPTER". EKS RX. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

[7] "BAKKERUD AND DORAN REUNITE WITH MONSTER ENERGY RX CARTEL". fiaworldrallycross.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2019.

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