Fredric Aasbø (born 18 August 1985) is a professional drifter and stunt driver originally from

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. He now competes in the Formula Drift Championship. In 2015, and recently in 2021, he became the Formula Drift World Champion. He also holds claim to the most wins of any driver in series history (as of April, 2019). He finished runner-up in the 2016, 2017 and 2018 championship chases. Aasbø won the 2007 and 2008 Nordic Drifting Championship titles as a privateer competing in his native Scandinavia before making his U.S. debut at a global drifting invitational in 2008. In 2010, he ran his first full season of U.S. competition and won the Formula Drift 'Rookie of the Year' award. In 2014, he won the Formula Drift Asia title, and finished runner-up in the U.S. Formula Drift Pro Championship. He scored the Formula Drift Pro Championship title in 2015 with a record of four wins in seven rounds, as well as the Formula Drift World Championship. The same year, he was also awarded the FIA's Driver of the Year for Norway – an honor he accepted from Norwegian World Rally Champion

Petter Solberg Petter Solberg (born 18 November 1974) is a Norwegian former professional rally and rallycross driver. Solberg debuted in the World Rally Championship in 1998 and was signed by the Ford factory team in 1999. The following year, Solberg started ...

. After starting his career as a privateer racer in a Toyota Supra, he joined the Papadakis Racing squad in 2011 as a replacement for driver

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(who had announced his departure from drifting). In 2012, he won the "Pro" category of the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race. In the past two years, he has debuted two different Toyota hatchbacks in the Formula Drift series. In 2018, Papadakis Racing introduced the Rockstar Energy Drink / Nexen Tire Toyota Corolla Hatchback. A year earlier, they finished second in the championship in a similar liveried Toyota IM. From 2010 to 2016, he drove a Scion tC in the United States and, currently races a Toyota GT86 in Europe. He is also a stunt driver whose work has most notably been featured in the Norwegian action film

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. His girlfriend Hunter Taylor is now a rookie drifter as well.

References

External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aasbo, Fredric 1985 births Living people People from Ski, Norway Norwegian racing drivers Formula D drivers Drifting drivers Sportspeople from Viken (county)