Patrik Sandell

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).

Patrik Sandell
Sandell in 2011
Nationality	Swedish
Born	(1982-04-21) April 21, 1982 (age 43)
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 Representing  Sweden Summer X Games 2013 Los Angeles Ford Gymkhana GRID 2013 Foz do Iguaçu Ford RallyCross

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]

Biography

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 continued to compete in Americas Rallycross for the newly rebranded Subaru Motorsports team in 2019.^[7]

Racing record

Complete WRC results

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Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2005	Patrik Sandell	Renault Clio Ragnotti	MON	SWE Ret	MEX	NZL	ITA	CYP	TUR	GRE	ARG	FIN	GER	GBR	JPN	FRA	ESP	AUS	NC	0
2006	Patrik Sandell	Renault Clio S1600	MON	SWE 20	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG 22	ITA 15	GRE	GER	FIN 34	JPN	CYP	TUR 30	AUS	NZL	GBR 33	NC	0
2007	Patrik Sandell	Renault Clio S1600	MON	SWE	NOR 21	MEX	POR 53	ARG	ITA 31	GRE	FIN 18	GER EX	NZL	ESP Ret	FRA	JPN	IRE	GBR	NC	0
2008	Peugeot Sport Sweden	Peugeot 207 S2000	MON	SWE 11		ARG Ret			GRE Ret	TUR 12		GER 22				JPN	GBR Ret		NC	0
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX											NZL 11
	Interspeed Racing Team	Renault Clio S1600			MEX 13		JOR Ret	ITA 26			FIN 21			ESP 23
		Renault Clio R3													FRA 28
2009	Red Bull Rallye Team	Škoda Fabia S2000	IRE	NOR 12	CYP 9	POR Ret	ARG	ITA 10	GRE 24	POL	FIN	AUS	ESP	GBR 21					NC	0
2010	Red Bull Rallye Team	Škoda Fabia S2000	SWE 15	MEX	JOR 23	TUR	NZL 12	POR	BUL	FIN 11	GER 10	JPN	FRA 10	ESP	GBR 14				23rd	2
2011	Patrik Sandell	Škoda Fabia S2000	SWE 11	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA	ARG	GRE	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR				NC	0
2012	Mini WRC Team	Mini John Cooper Works WRC	MON	SWE 8	MEX														27th	4
	Prodrive WRC Team					POR Ret	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	GER	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP

JWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	JWRC	Points
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

Complete PWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	PWRC	Points
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

Complete SWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	SWRC	Points
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

IRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	IRC	Points
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

Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results

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Supercar

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	ERX	Points
2013	Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta	GBR	POR	HUN	FIN	NOR	SWE 9	FRA	AUT	GER	22nd	14

Complete Global Rallycross Championship results

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Supercar

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	GRC	Points
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

RallyX on Ice

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Year	Car	1	2	3	4	RallyX	Points
2016	Lites Ford Fiesta	PIT 11	SAL 14	TRY 4	ARE 6	7th	16