Andreas Bakkerud Explained

Andreas Bakkerud
Nationality: Norway
Birth Date:10 October 1991
Birth Place:Bergen, Norway
Current Series:Nitrocross
Years Active:20212023
Teams:Dreyer & Reinbold Racing JC
Subaru Motorsports USA
Car Number:13
Starts:22
Wins:2
Podiums:9
Best Finish:2nd
Year:2022-2023
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Current Series:Extreme E
Years Active:2023
Teams:JBXE
Car Number:22
Starts:4
Year:2022-2023
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Last Series:FIA World Rallycross Championship
Years Active:20142020
Former Teams:Olsbergs MSE
Hoonigan Racing Division
EKS RX
Monster Energy RX Cartel
Car Number:13
Starts:79
Wins:7
Podiums:30
Best Finish:2nd
Year:2019
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Last Series:FIA ERX Supercar Championship
Years Active:2013, 2021-2023
Former Teams:Bakkerud Motorsport
ES Motorsport
Championships:1 (2021)
Starts:17
Wins:4
Podiums:7
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Last Series:FIA ERX Super1600 Championship
Years Active:20112012
Former Teams:Set Promotion
Championships:2 (2011, 2012)
Starts:20
Wins:7
Podiums:15
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Last Series:FIA ERX Division 1A Championship
Years Active:2009–2010
Former Teams:Set Promotion
Best Finish:3rd
Starts:12
Wins:1
Podiums:4

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, Nitro Rallycross since 2021, and Extreme E since 2023. He became European Champion in 2021.

He is not related to former DTM driver Christian Bakkerud.

Biography

Bakkerud won the FIA European Rallycross Championship 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 a 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

Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results

(key)

Division 1A

YearEntrantCar12345678910ERXPoints
2009Set PromotionPeugeot 206GBR
POR
FRA
HUN
AUT
SWE
13
BEL
GER
POL
2
CZE
5
13th33
2010POR
2
FRA
10
GBR
6
HUN
4
SWE
FIN
6
BEL
8
GER
4
3rd109
Renault ClioPOL
2
CZE
1

Super1600

YearEntrantCar12345678910ERXPoints
2011Set PromotionRenault ClioGBR
1
POR
1
FRA
2
NOR
2
SWE
6
BEL
2
NED
1
AUT
11
POL
3
CZE
1
1st146
2012Renault TwingoGBR
2
FRA
1
AUT
2
HUN
1
NOR
6
SWE
3
BEL
7
NED
1
FIN
5
GER
2
1st138

Supercar

YearEntrantCar123456789ERXPoints
2013Bakkerud MotorsportCitroën DS3GBR
12
POR
7
HUN
15
FIN
6
NOR
5
SWE
1
FRA
1
AUT
13
GER
2
4th133
2021ES MotorsportŠkoda FabiaSWE
3
FRA
4
LAT
7
BEL
1
1st90
2022Audi S1HUN
SWE
3
NOR
1
LVA
POR
BLX
8th33
2023Bakkerud MotorsportHUN
6
POR
NOR
SWE
7
BLX
GER
10th20

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

(key)

Supercar

YearEntrantCar12345678910111213WRXPoints
2014Olsbergs MSEFord Fiesta STPOR
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
2015POR
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
4th232
2016Hoonigan Racing DivisionFord Focus RSPOR
4
HOC
12
BEL
14
GBR
6
NOR
1
SWE
1
CAN
2
FRA
2
BAR
7
LAT
4
GER
3
ARG
1
3rd239
2017BAR
3
POR
10
HOC
14
BEL
6
GBR
3
NOR
2
SWE
2
CAN
13
FRA
4
LAT
4
GER
8
RSA
7
6th194
2018EKS Audi SportAudi S1BAR
3
POR
4
BEL
6
GBR
2
NOR
6
SWE
2
CAN
7
FRA
2
LAT
8
USA
3
GER
3
RSA
7
3rd237
2019Monster Energy RX CartelUAE
15
ESP
3
BEL
2
GBR
2
NOR
8
SWE
7
CAN
1
FRA
5
LAT
3
RSA
2
2nd211
2020Monster Energy GCK RX CartelRenault Mégane R.S. RXSWE
SWE
FIN
FIN
LAT
LAT
ESP
ESP
7th121

Complete Nitrocross results

Series called Nitro Rallycross until 2023

Group E

YearEntrantCar12345678910RankPoints
2022-23Dreyer & Reinbold Racing JCFC1-XGBR
2
SWE
1
ERX
4
HLN
3
WHP1
3
WHP2
8
QBC
7
HLN2
1
HLN3
3
HLN4
3
2nd371
2023-24MID
7
UMC1
3
UMC2
5
WHP1
5
WHP2
6
HLN1
6
HLN2
9
LAS
6
LAS
8
4th409

Complete 24H GT Series results

GT4

Complete Extreme E results

External links

  1. - Andreas Bakkerud Website
  2. - Hoonigan Racing

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FIA World Rallycross Championship. rallycrossrx.com. 23 June 2016. 7 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150407190229/http://www.rallycrossrx.com/driver/14/bakkerud. dead.
  2. Web site: Bakkerud joins Block in all-new Hoonigan Racing Division team. Motorsport.com. 6 July 2017. 21 January 2016.
  3. Web site: Bakkerud Wins Norway World RX and Sets Records in First-Ever Win For The All New Ford Focus RS RX. hooniganracing.com. 12 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161110223438/http://www.hooniganracing.com/blog/2016/06/12/bakkerud-wins-norway-world-rx-and-sets-records-fir/. 10 November 2016. dead.
  4. News: Ford Performance and Hoonigan Racing Close World RX Programme After 2017 - FIA World Rallycross - The Checkered Flag. 2017-10-04. The Checkered Flag. 2018-02-01. en-GB.
  5. News: EKS Audi Sport set their sights on championship glory in 2018. 2018-01-31. The Checkered Flag. 2018-02-01. en-GB.
  6. News: EKS CLOSES ITS RALLYCROSS CHAPTER. EKS RX. 10 December 2018.
  7. News: BAKKERUD AND DORAN REUNITE WITH MONSTER ENERGY RX CARTEL. fiaworldrallycross.com. 7 March 2019. 17 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190417232810/https://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/article/10245/bakkerud-and-doran-reunite-with. dead.