Andreas Bakkerud


Andreas Bakkerud is a rallycross driver from Bergen, Norway. He has competed in the FIA Rallycross Supercar class since 2013, where he has collected eight wins.

Biography

Bakkerud won the FIA European Rallycross Champion 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 an Ford-supported Olsbergs MSE Fiesta. 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. He claimed three wins and six podiums, earning a third place in the 2016 FIA World Rallycross Supercar standings.
In 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 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, 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.
With the announcement that Hoonigan Racing would be withdrawing from the sport at the end of the 2017 season, 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, 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.
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.

Racing record

Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results

Division 1A

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

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
2012Set PromotionRenault 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

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

Supercar