Patrik Sandell | |||||||||||||||
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Nationality | Swedish | ||||||||||||||
Born | April 21, 1982 | ||||||||||||||
Global Rallycross career | |||||||||||||||
Debut season | 2013 | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Subaru Rally Team USA | ||||||||||||||
Car number | 18 | ||||||||||||||
Former teams | Olsbergs MSE Bryan Herta Rallysport | ||||||||||||||
Starts | 54 | ||||||||||||||
Wins | 3 | ||||||||||||||
Podiums | 14 | ||||||||||||||
Best finish | 6th in 2013 and 2014 | ||||||||||||||
Finished last season | 8th | ||||||||||||||
Previous series | |||||||||||||||
2005–2012 | World Rally Championship | ||||||||||||||
Championship titles | |||||||||||||||
2006 2005 2004 2003 | Junior World Rally Championship Swedish Group N3 Championship Swedish Junior kartingChampionship | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Patrik Sandell (born April 21, 1982) is a rally driver from Sweden. Sandell won the Swedish Junior Championship in 2004 and the Swedish Group N3 Championship in 2005. In 2006, he won the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) title driving for Renault. In 2008, Sandell contested both the JWRC and the Production World Rally Championship (PWRC).
Sandell joined Olsbergs MSE to drive a Ford Fiesta at the Global RallyCross Championship in 2013. He finished 6th in the standings, scoring two podiums. In 2014 he won a race and finished in the overall championship in 6th place. He joined Bryan Herta Rallysport in 2015, driving with sponsorship from Kobalt Tools. [1]
Sandell’s interest in motorsport came as a teenager. He was 16 when he first tried rallycross, and 17 when he ran his first rally. Sandell won his first championship in 2004 when he won the Swedish Junior Championship, and won the Swedish Group N3 title in 2005.
In 2006, Sandell contested the Junior World Rally Championship and won the title with a win and three podiums in six starts. Over the next few years, he would continue racing in the JWRC, Production World Rally Championship, and Super 2000 World Rally Championship, earning victories in all three classes. Sandell became a Red Bull athlete in 2009 and won his first two PWRC starts that year in Norway and Cyprus.
In 2012, Sandell made his debut with the Mini WRC Team at his native 2012 Rally Sweden and finished a career-best eighth. Mini parent BMW later terminated its contract with Prodrive, [2] and Sandell no longer raced in WRC after the 2012 season.
For 2013, Sandell moved to the Global RallyCross Championship and joined Olsbergs MSE. He earned his first podium in his first GRC start at X Games Brazil, and finished the year sixth in points. He replicated that result in 2014, also earning his first career win in a race at RFK Stadium that June. [3]
In 2015, Sandell switched to the new Bryan Herta Rallysport team. [4] Sandell would spend the 2015 and 2016 seasons with the team, winning once each year.
Sandell accepted a new drive with Subaru Rally Team USA for 2017 and finished eighth in points. He earned his first podium of the season in the first Atlantic City round. [5] In 2018, Sandell continued to compete for the team in the newly established Americas Rallycross series, where he finished third in points. Sandell also returned to stage rally for three American Rally Association events in 2018, winning all three. [6]
Sandell will continue to compete in Americas Rallycross for the newly rebranded Subaru Motorsports team in 2019. [7]
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Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | JWRC | Points |
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2006 | Patrik Sandell | Renault Clio S1600 | SWE 2 | ESP | FRA | ARG 2 | ITA 1 | GER | FIN 7 | TUR 11 | GBR 6 | 1st | 32 |
2007 | Patrik Sandell | Renault Clio R3 | NOR 2 | POR 15 | ITA 8 | FIN 1 | GER EX | ESP | FRA | 6th | 19 | ||
2008 | Interspeed Racing Team | Renault Clio S1600 | MEX 5 | JOR Ret | ITA 7 | FIN 2 | GER | ESP 5 | 7th | 21 | |||
Renault Clio R3 | FRA 6 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | PWRC | Points |
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2008 | Peugeot Sport Sweden | Peugeot 207 S2000 | SWE 3 | ARG Ret | GRE Ret | TUR 2 | FIN | GBR Ret | 4th | 22 | ||
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX | NZL 2 | JPN | ||||||||||
2009 | Red Bull Rallye Team | Škoda Fabia S2000 | NOR 1 | CYP 1 | POR Ret | ARG | ITA 2 | GRE 11 | AUS | GBR 7 | 4th | 30 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | SWRC | Points |
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2010 | Red Bull Rallye Team | Škoda Fabia S2000 | SWE 4 | MEX | JOR 5 | NZL 4 | POR | FIN 3 | GER 1 | JPN | FRA 1 | GBR 4 | 2nd | 112 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | IRC | Points |
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2011 | Škoda Sweden | Škoda Fabia S2000 | MON | CAN | COR 9 | YAL 9 | YPR | AZO 5 | ZLI 12 | MEC | SAN | SCO Ret | CYP 3 | 8th | 44 |
(key)
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ERX | Points |
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2013 | Olsbergs MSE | Ford Fiesta | GBR | POR | HUN | FIN | NOR | SWE 9 | FRA | AUT | GER | 22nd | 14 |
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Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | GRC | Points |
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2013 | Kobalt Tools Olsbergs MSE | Ford Fiesta ST | BRA 3 | MUN1 8 | MUN2 13 | LOU 2 | BRI 5 | IRW 8 | ATL 11 | CHA 13 | LV 7 | 6th | 89 | |||
2014 | Kobalt Tools Olsbergs MSE | Ford Fiesta ST | BAR 8 | AUS 6 | DC 1 | NY 10 | CHA 13 | DAY 4 | LA1 5 | LA2 7 | SEA 7 | LV 10 | 6th | 246 | ||
2015 | Bryan Herta Rallysport | Ford Fiesta ST | FTA 11 | DAY1 9 | DAY2 10 | MCAS 2 | DET1 9 | DET2 1 | DC 2 | LA1 3 | LA2 4 | BAR1 DSQ | BAR2 10 | LV 13 | 8th | 328 |
2016 | Bryan Herta Rallysport | Ford Fiesta ST | PHO1 2 | PHO2 4 | DAL 1 | DAY1 8 | DAY2 8 | MCAS1 4 | MCAS2 C | DC 2 | AC 2 | SEA 11 | LA1 5 | LA2 3 | 5th | 436 |
2017 | Subaru Rally Team USA | Subaru Impreza WRX STI | MEM 9 | LOU | THO1 6 | THO2 5 | OTT1 9 | OTT2 7 | INDY 8 | AC1 2 | AC2 10 | SEA1 7 | SEA2 3 | LA 3 | 8th | 582 |
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Year | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | RallyX | Points |
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2016 | Lites Ford Fiesta | PIT 11 | SAL 14 | TRY 4 | ARE 6 | 7th | 16 |
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