Rickard Rydell
| Rickard Rydell | |
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Rydell at the first Ring Knutstorp round of the 2012 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship season.
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| Nationality | Swedish |
| Born |
22 September 1967 Vallentuna, (Sweden) |
| World Touring Car Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2005 |
| Current team | NIKA Racing |
| Car no. | 69 |
| Former teams |
SEAT Sport Chevrolet |
| Starts | 100 |
| Wins | 5 |
| Poles | 3 |
| Fastest laps | 5 |
| Best finish | 5th in 2008 |
| Previous series | |
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2011–12 2004 2003 2002–04 2001, 2004 2001 1994–2000 1992 1990, 1992 1990 1990, 1992–93 1989 1988–89, 1991 1987–88 1987 |
STCC TC2000 V8 Supercars ETCC STCC (Sweden) FIA GT Championship BTCC Japanese Formula 3000 British Formula 3000 All Japan Sports Prototype All-Japan F3 Championship International Formula 3000 British F3 Championship Swedish F3 Championship European F3 Cup |
| Championship titles | |
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1998 2011 |
BTCC STCC |
Rickard Rydell (born 22 September 1967) is a retired Swedish racing driver. He won the 1998 British Touring Car Championship, the 2011 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship, and has also been a frontrunner in the European/World Touring Car Championship.
Rydell was born in Vallentuna, Stockholm. Initially he trained to be an accountant at AB Rydell, his family's flower boutique business, but was bitten by the racing bug. In the early 1990s, he raced in various Formula Three series. He also won pole position in the 1991 Macau Grand Prix, and won the 1992 race. He competed in Japanese F3 in 1992 and 1993, British F3 in 1989 and 1991, and the Swedish F3 series in 1987 and 1988. In 1990, he raced in F3000. In 1984–1985, he won the Swedish 100cc go kart championship.
His first year in the BTCC was 1994, when his car was quite distinctive, driving a Volvo 850 Estate, when it was normal to race saloons. The TWR team switched to a saloon in 1995 and Rydell took pole for 13 of the 24 races, but several slow starts contributed to him winning only 4 times and finishing 3rd in the championship, a result repeated in 1996, 1999 and 2000. After five years with Volvo, he was loaned to Ford (Prodrive) for 2000.
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