Kristoffersson Motorsport is a Swedish

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team owned by racing driver

Tommy Kristoffersson Tommy Sten Kristoffersson, actually Tommy Sten Kristoffersen, (born 1 May 1959 in Eda) is a Swedish race car driver whose father hails from Denmark. In the beginning of his career he competed in rallycross for Audi before starting a team in the S ...

. It currently competes in the

FIA World Rallycross Championship The FIA World Rallycross Championship (official abbreviation is World RX) is a rallycross series organised by the FIA in conjunction with series promoter Rallycross Promoter GmbH (founded by Red Bull and KW25). From the inaugural season in 2014 ...

and

Swedish Touring Car Championship Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) was a touring car racing series based in Sweden, but also with rounds in Norway. They began operating in 1996, heavily influenced by the British Touring Car Championship and the success of BTCC racing on Sw ...

, with Tommy's son

Johan Kristoffersson Johan David Kristoffersson (born 6 December 1988) is a Swedish racecar driver. He is a five time World Champion having won the FIA World Rallycross Championship in 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022. In 2018 he won a record breaking 11 out of 12 eve ...

as one of the drivers. The team has raced under several sponsored names, such as Team Biogas.se, Volkswagen Dealer Team KMS, Volkswagen Team Sweden, Volkswagen RX Sweden and PSRX Volkswagen Sweden.

Rallycross

Tommy Kristoffersson competed with a self-run Audis at the Swedish Rallycross Championship and the

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(ERX) in the 1980s and 1990s. He won the Swedish championship in 1989, 1991 and 1992, whereas he placed third in the 1993 ERX and fourth in 1991. In 2013, Johan Kristoffersson and

Pontus Tidemand Pontus Johan Tidemand (born 10 December 1990) is a Swedish Rallying, rally and Rallycross, rallycross driver. He is the 2017 WRC-2 champion and a previous M-Sport World Rally Team, M-Sport and Škoda Motorsport driver. Pontus is the son of Swedi ...

entered the Swedish round of the 2013 FIA European Rallycross Championship with a

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. In 2014, Kristoffersson drove a

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at three rounds of the ERX, winning a race, as well as and four rounds of the FIA World Rallycross Championship (WRX). In addition, Ole Christian Veiby entered two WRX rounds and one ERX round. In 2015, Volkswagen Team Sweden was one of two teams officially supported by

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in the WRX along with

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. Johan Kristoffersson finished third, and

Tord Linnerud Tord Linnerud (born 10 August 1974) is a rallycross driver from Gjøvik, Norway. He has a large amount of experience in motorsport, competing in the Swedish Touring Car Championship at the turn of the millennium and more recently the World and E ...

finished 14th. Ole Christian Veiby finished third in the 2015 ERX, and entered one WRX round. Kristoffersson and Marklund combined their operations to participate in the 2016 WRX Championship under the brand Volkswagen RX Sweden. Johan Kristoffersson was runner-up, whereas Anton Marklund finished 13th. Kristoffersson signed a partnership with the squad of

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 ...

for the 2017 WRX season, under the name PSRX Volkswagen World RX Team Sweden and is currently headquartered in

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. Kristoffersson took six wins and the title, whereas Solberg finished third with one win and three podiums.

STCC

Kristoffersson joined the

in 1998, with Tommy Kristoffersson ranking fourth and Mats Lindén fifth with an

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Mattias Ekström Mattias Ekström (born 14 July 1978 in Falun, Sweden) is a racing driver from Sweden. He competed in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters for Audi from 2001 until his retirement in 2018, and has been competing in the FIA World Rallycross Championship ...

won the 1999 title, whereas Kristoffersson finished 9th. In 2000,

Fredrik Ekblom Fredrik Ekblom (born 6 October 1970) is a Swedish race car driver from Kumla. After an early career in single-seaters he switched to touring car racing where he won multiple titles in his native Swedish Touring Car Championship and later in the ...

was runner-up and Kristoffersson was 8th.

Roberto Colciago Roberto Colciago (born 4 April 1968) is a racing driver from Saronno, Italy. He has spent most of his career in touring car racing – first in Super Touring and then in Super 2000 – followed by the World Touring Car Championship and cur ...

was the 2001 champion, while Kristoffersson resulted fourth. Colciago defended his title in 2002, Kristoffersson finished 6th and Marius Erlandsen finished 10th. With the new Audi A4 for the 2003 season,

won the third consecutive title for the team, Tobias Johansson ended 6th and Kristoffersson 7th. In 2004, Ekblom finished third and Kristoffersson 8th. Ekblom ended 6th in 2005 and Kristoffersson 10th. In 2006,

Thed Björk Thed Björk (born 14 December 1980 in Vretstorp, Örebro) is a Swedish racing driver, and 2017 World Touring Car Champion. Other notable titles include the 2006 Swedish Touring Car Championship and the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Scandinavian Touring C ...

won the championship, Ekblom finished 4th and Kristoffersson finished 10th. in 2007, Björk finished 4th,

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was 7th and Kristoffersson 14th. In 2008, Audi dropped factory support to the team. Kristoffersson missed three races and finished 14th, whereas Alexander Lvov finished 19th. For the 2009 STCC season, Tommy Kristoffersson retired as

replaced him to become the team's new lead driver. Driving an Audi A4, he finished 18th overall and runner-up in the privateers cup, whereas Andreas Simonsen entered two rounds. In

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, the Kristoffersson began to operate the Team Biogas.se team, replacing Brovallen Motorsport, switching to

cars. Ekblom finished third and Patrik Olsson finished sixth, whereas Johan Kristoffersson entered the last three rounds. In 2011, Ekblom was runner-up and Olsson was ninth. Kristoffersson competed in the second half of the season, finishing 10th. Kristoffersson Motorsport stayed loyal to the STCC in

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, while rival teams created the

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. Johan Kristoffersson won the championship with the Volkswagen Scirocco, whereas

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finished 7th. When both championships merged in

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and adopted TTA technical regulations, Kristoffersson decided to close their touring car program. With Volkswagen Sweden factory support, Kristoffersson Motorsport returned to the STCC in

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with the

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TCR. Fredrik Ekblom was runner-up and Fredrik Blomstedt finished third, whereas Johan Kristoffersson ranked fourth despite entering only four of the seven rounds. Johan Kristoffersson won the 2018 championship with three wins and seven podiums in 12 races. His teammates Hugo Nerman and Nicklas Oscarsson finished 9th and 15th with no podiums.

Racing record

FIA European Rallycross Championship results

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Supercar

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

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Supercar

^* Season still in progress.

References

External links

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