Sverre Isachsen | |
---|---|
![]() Isachsen in 2009 | |
Nationality | ![]() |
Born | 11 November 1970 |
Global Rallycross career | |
Debut season | 2012 |
Current team | Subaru Rally Team USA |
Car number | 11 |
Starts | 38 |
Wins | 1 |
Podiums | 5 |
Best finish | 5th in 2014 |
Finished last season | 11th |
FIA ERX Supercar Championship | |
Years active | 2011 |
Starts | 10 |
Championships | 1 (2011) |
Wins | 5 |
Podiums | 6 |
FIA ERX Division 1 Championship | |
Years active | 2002–2010 |
Starts | 85 |
Championships | 2 (2009, 2010) |
Wins | 18 |
Podiums | 34 |
Sverre Isachsen (born 11 November 1970) is a Norwegian rallycross driver.
Isachsen started with motorsports in 1989 and became the Norwegian Rallycross Champion in 1999 and 2000. In 2009, 2010 and 2011, he became the European Rallycross Champion with a Ford Focus. He was also awarded the "Driver of the Year" title by the Norwegian Autosport Federation in 2010 and 2011. [1]
In 2012, Isachen signed a three-year deal to drive the Global RallyCross Championship for the Subaru Puma Rallycross Team, together with Dave Mirra and Bucky Lasek. [2] He previously drove the 2016 Subaru WRX STI GRC Car for Subaru. After the 2016 season, he and his teammate Bucky Lasek left Subaru to pursue in other areas. Both of the drivers' replacements are Chris Atkinson and Patrick Sandell. His exploits in the Global RallyCross Championship have earned him the nickname of “The Viking Warrior” in the U.S. [3]
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ERX | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2002 | Sverre Isachsen | Ford Focus RS WRC | POR | FRA | AUT | CZE | SWE 6 | BEL 10 | NED 5 | NOR 9 | POL | GER 2 | 8th | 55 | |
2003 | Sverre Isachsen | Ford Focus T16 | POR 11 | FRA | AUT 4 | CZE 3 | SWE 9 | BEL 9 | NED 9 | NOR 3 | POL | GER 11 | 8th | 79 | |
2004 | Sverre Isachsen | Ford Focus T16 | POR 4 | FRA 5 | CZE 11 | AUT (NC) | NOR 10 | SWE 1 | BEL 5 | NED 6 | POL (15) | GER 5 | 7th | 93 | |
2005 | Sverre Isachsen | Ford Focus T16 | FRA 2 | POR 4 | AUT 3 | CZE (8) | NOR 1 | SWE (14) | BEL 8 | NED 1 | POL 7 | GER 1 | 3rd | 124 | |
2006 | Sverre Isachsen | Ford Focus T16 | POR 15 | FRA (16) | CZE 1 | AUT 5 | SWE 1 | HUN 1 | BEL 9 | NED (10) | NOR 9 | POL 2 | GER 1 | 4th | 127 |
2007 | Sverre Isachsen | Ford Focus T16 | POR (6) | FRA 5 | HUN 3 | AUT 5 | SWE 2 | NOR 4 | BEL 2 | NED 2 | POL 9 | CZE (NC) | 4th | 111 | |
2008 | Sverre Isachsen | Ford Focus ST T16 | POR 4 | FRA 8 | HUN 6 | AUT 6 | NOR 3 | SWE (NC) | BEL 1 | NED 6 | CZE 4 | POL 1 | GER (10) | 4th | 123 |
2009 | Sverre Isachsen | Ford Focus ST T16 | GBR 2 | POR 2 | FRA 2 | HUN 2 | AUT (6) | SWE (NC) | BEL 1 | GER 1 | POL 4 | CZE 1 | 1st | 141 | |
2010 | Sverre Isachsen | Ford Focus ST T16 | POR (2) | FRA 2 | GBR 1 | HUN 1 | SWE 1 | FIN (5) | BEL 5 | GER 1 | POL 5 | CZE 1 | 1st | 141 | |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ERX | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2011 | Sverre Isachsen | Ford Focus T16 | GBR 1 | POR 7 | FRA (12) | NOR 2 | SWE 4 | BEL (13) | NED 1 | AUT 1 | POL 1 | CZE 1 | 1st | 140 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | WRX | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Subaru Rally Team USA | Subaru Impreza WRX STI | POR | GBR | NOR | FIN | SWE | BEL | CAN 13 | FRA | GER | ITA | TUR | ARG | 42nd | 7 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | GRC | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2012 | Subaru Puma Rallycross Team USA | Subaru Impreza WRX STI | CHA 12 | TEX 10 | LA 10 | LOU 13 | LV 3 | LVC 12 | 9th | 40 | ||||||
2013 | Subaru Puma Rallycross Team USA | Subaru Impreza WRX STI | BRA | MUN1 17 | MUN2 8 | LOU 6 | BRI 4 | IRW 3 | ATL 3 | CHA 8 | LV 5 | 7th | 86 | |||
2014 | Subaru Rally Team USA | Subaru Impreza WRX STI | BAR 6 | AUS 15 | DC 10 | NY 8 | CHA 2 | DAY 5 | LA1 10 | LA2 4 | SEA 1 | LV 5 | 5th | 280 | ||
2015 | Subaru Rally Team USA | Subaru WRX STI | FTA 9 | DAY1 10 | DAY2 11 | MCAS 6 | DET1 12 | DET2 12 | DC | LA1 4 | LA2 13 | BAR1 7 | BAR2 12 | LV 14 | 11th | 136 |
2016 | Subaru Rally Team USA | Subaru WRX STI | PHO1 | PHO2 | DAL | DAY1 | DAY2 | MCAS1 11 | MCAS2† | DC 11 | AC 9 | SEA | LA1 | LA2 | 17th | 19 |
†Race cancelled.
Petter Solberg is a Norwegian former professional rally and rallycross driver.
Marcus Ulf Johan "Bosse" Grönholm is a Finnish former rally and rallycross driver, being part of a family of the Swedish-speaking population of Finland lineage. His son, Niclas Grönholm, is an upcoming FIA World Rallycross Championship driver. Grönholm's nicknames are either "Bosse" or "Magic Marcus". Grönholm is one of the most successful WRC drivers of all time, ranking third in rally wins (30), and winning two championships, in 2000 and 2002. After Peugeot withdrew from the World Rally Championship, Grönholm moved to Ford for the 2006 season and placed second in the drivers' world championship, losing out to Sébastien Loeb by one point. The next year he again placed second, four points behind Loeb. He and his co-driver Timo Rautiainen retired from rallying after the 2007 season but returned to the championship in 2009 driving a private Subaru for a short period of time, and in the 2019 World Rally Championship where he competed in a Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT-maintained Toyota Yaris under the GRX Team banner.
Rallycross is a form of sprint style motorsport, held on a closed mixed-surface racing circuit, with modified production or specially built touring cars. It is mainly popular in the Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Great Britain. An inexpensive, entry level type of rallycross is the Swedish folkrace or its Norwegian counterpart, the so-called bilcross. The folkrace is most popular in Finland where it was founded back in the late 1960s. In Europe, rallycross can also refer to racing 1:8 scale off-road radio-controlled buggies.
David Michael Mirra was an American BMX rider who also competed in rallycross racing. He set the record for most medals in BMX Freestyle at the X Games and earned at least one BMX medal at the event in all but one year from the competition's inception in 1995 until 2009. He also competed for several years with the Subaru Rally Team USA as a rallycross driver. Mirra rode for and was fully sponsored by Haro Bikes from the mid-1990s until he started his own bike company. He was a member of the team which won the 2014 Race Across America four-person male category. Mirra died by suicide on February 4, 2016. He was inducted into the BMX Hall of Fame on June 11, 2016.
Lydden Hill Race Circuit is a motorsport venue in Denton with Wootton, about half-way between Canterbury and Dover in Kent, England. The mile-long circuit is mainly used for Rallycross, Drift, Saloon and Sports car racing as well as Motorcycle racing.
Charles Michael "Bucky" Lasek is an American professional skateboarder and rallycross driver.
Christopher James Atkinson is a professional rally driver. In the World Rally Championship (WRC), Atkinson drove for the Subaru World Rally Team between 2004 and 2008. His best finish on an individual WRC event is second, which he achieved at the 2008 Rally México and Rally Argentina. Other podium placings include third-place finishes at the 2005 Rally Japan and the 2008 Monte Carlo Rally.
Martin Schanche, nicknamed "Mr. Rallycross", is a Norwegian former racing driver and politician.
Guy Wilks is a British rally driver. Wilks started rallying at the age of 19, but currently drives for JRM in the FIA World Rallycross Championship. In 2011 Wilks drove for Peugeot UK in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. In 2012 he did not compete.
Tanner Lee Foust is an American professional racing driver, stunt driver, and television host. He competes in rally, drift, ice racing, time attack, hill climb and rallycross with multiple podium placements, national championships, and world records. He was a co-host of the American version of the motoring television series Top Gear.
Patrik Sandell 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).
Kenneth Paul Block was an American professional rally driver with the Hoonigan Racing Division, formerly known as the Monster World Rally Team. Block was also one of the co-founders of DC Shoes. He also competed in many action sports events, including skateboarding, snowboarding, and motocross.
Tommy Rustad is a Norwegian racing driver. He currently drives in the FIA European Rallycross Championship and occasionally in the FIA World Rallycross Championship. Tommy is the son of former well known Norwegian racer Ola Rustad.
Subaru is the automobile manufacturing division of Japanese transportation conglomerate Subaru Corporation, the twenty-first largest automaker by production worldwide in 2017.
Subaru Motorsports USA is Subaru of America's motorsports arm that participates in events in the United States and its operations are managed by Vermont SportsCar, previously Prodrive.
The 2013 Global RallyCross Championship was the third season of this championship. The season consisted of nine weekends, three in X Games events. Toomas Heikkinen earned his first series championship after a record-setting streak of five consecutive victories.
The 2012 Global RallyCross Championship was the second season of this championship. The season was composed by 6 rounds, including one round in the X Games. Tanner Foust was crowned champion for the second time, beating teammate Brian Deegan.
Liam Doran is a British professional rallycross driver competing in the FIA World Rallycross Championship, Global RallyCross Championship, X Games, and European Rallycross Championship. He is the son of British rallycross driver and Lydden Hill Race Circuit owner Pat Doran. In his early life he attended Fulston Manor School in Sittingbourne.
Mitchell DeJong is an American professional racing driver, stunt driver and Esports athlete competing in multiple disciplines, including rallycross, ice racing, road course, off-road, dirt, and oval track racing. He also travels the world as an Esports champion and competitor of invite-only events held by top manufacturers such as BMW and Porsche. deJong is known for his dominant road course racing style in the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing series, the Porsche Esports Supercup, and iRacing F1 Championship. deJong holds world records and championship titles in multiple disciplines, including X-Games. He was invited by Porsche to participate in their young driver academy and in 2020 he became a Porsche Factory Works Driver.
Vermont SportsCar (VSC) is a race car manufacturer that designs, engineers, and builds rally, rallycross and other specialty vehicles for teams and private clients. Since 2006 Vermont SportsCar has been the technical partner to Subaru of America and manages the automaker's racing division Subaru Motorsports USA.