Founded | 2011 |
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Team principal(s) | Jan Marklund |
Current series | FIA European Rallycross Championship |
Former series | FIA World Rallycross Championship |
Current drivers | 92. Anton Marklund |
Noted drivers | Mattias Ekström Tanner Foust Toomas Heikkinen |
Marklund Motorsport, also competed under the title Volkswagen Marklund Motorsport, is an auto racing team. The team has been competing in rallycross since its creation, and has recently been backed by Volkswagen. For 2016 the team merged with Kristoffersson Motorsport to create Volkswagen RX Sweden , before stepping back to the European circuit following the fallout from the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
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† Points scored with other team(s).
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Year | Entrant | Car | No. | Driver | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ERX | Points |
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2011 | Marklund Motorsport | Ford Fiesta | 31 | Anton Marklund | GBR | POR | FRA | NOR 10 | SWE 3 | BEL 11 | NED 5 | AUT | POL | CZE 4 | 8th | 53 |
2012 | Marklund Motorsport | Ford Fiesta | 8 | Anton Marklund | GBR 1 | FRA 2 | AUT 2 | HUN 2 | NOR (6) | SWE 2 | BEL 2 | NED 1 | FIN 2 | GER (7) | 1st | 142 |
Year | Entrant | Car | No. | Driver | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ERX | Points |
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2013 | Marklund Motorsport | Volkswagen Polo | 68 | Mattias Ekström | GBR | POR | HUN | FIN | NOR | SWE 2 | FRA | AUT | GER | 17th | 23 |
92 | Anton Marklund | GBR 7 | POR 9 | HUN 8 | FIN 9 | NOR 7 | SWE 21 | FRA 13 | AUT 7 | GER 9 | 7th | 102 | |||
2014 | Marklund Motorsport | Volkswagen Polo | 34 | Tanner Foust | GBR 3 | NOR | BEL | GER | ITA | 18th | 14 | ||||
67 | François Duval | GBR | NOR | BEL 8 | GER | ITA | 24th | 9 | |||||||
90 | Ronny Wechselberger | GBR | NOR | BEL | GER 12 | ITA | 31st | 5 | |||||||
2015 | HTB Racing-Marklund Motorsport | Volkswagen Polo | 24 | Tommy Rustad | BEL 4 | GER 1 | NOR 1 | BAR 6 | ITA 1 | 1st | 135 | ||||
2017 | Marklund Motorsport | Volkswagen Polo | 19 | Magda Andersson | BAR 28 | NOR 15 | SWE 12 | FRA 9 | LAT 19 | 16th | 19 | ||||
92 | Anton Marklund | BAR 1 | NOR 2 | SWE 1 | FRA 4 | LAT 1 | 1st | 129 | |||||||
2018 | Marklund Motorsport | Volkswagen Polo | 92 | Anton Marklund | BAR 2 | BEL 1 | SWE | FRA | LAT | 2nd* | 53* |
* Season still in progress.
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