Kenneth Eriksson

Kenneth Eriksson

WRC driver
Name = Kenneth Eriksson


Caption =
Nationality = flagicon|Sweden Swedish
Years = 1984 – 2002
Teams = Subaru, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Skoda
Races = 138
Championships = 0
Wins = 6
Podiums = 21
Stagewins = 214
Points = 489
First race = 1980 Swedish Rally
First win = 1987 Rallye Côte d'Ivoire
Last win = 1997 Rally New Zealand
Last race = 2002 Rally Great Britain

Kenneth Eriksson (born May 13, 1956 in Äppelbo, in the kommun of Vansbro) is a now retired World Rally Championship rally driver. He drove for several manufacturer teams, including the Subaru World Rally Team, Mitsubishi, Hyundai and Skoda. He was the 1986 Group A Champion in the competition's only year, his best performance, overshadowed by the fatalities that occurred in that season.

His finest showing in the top-tier World Rally Championship was third place overall for Mitsubishi in 1995. He controversially won the Swedish Rally that year under pressure on the road from second-placed young team-mate Tommi Makinen, as well as winning directly ahead of the Champion-elect, Subaru World Rally Team's Colin McRae in Australia. He then switched to Subaru for the 1996 season to drive the Impreza WRC alongside McRae.cite web | url = http://driveperformance.subaru.com/version2_1/origins.asp |title= Subaru in International Rallying: 1993-1996 |accessdate=2008-02-23 |work=Drive Performance Magazine] He excelled for them as a second points-scorer on the championship's loose-surface rounds. Conversely, Italian Piero Liatti often took on the same responsibility for asphalt rounds. By the end of the 1997 season Eriksson and regular co-driver Steffan Parmander had collected six individual World Rally victories. These included a famous win aboard the Impreza in New Zealand in 1997, on which occasion he took advantage of the altercation with a sheep that befell long-time leader, Ford's Carlos Sainz. Between 1995 and 1997, he also notched up a hat-trick of Asia-Pacific rally titles.

After finishing fourth on the 1998 Swedish Rally, Eriksson was released from his contract at Subaru in order to pursue a kit-car and latterly a World Rally Car chance with Hyundai. He was joined as factory driver of both the Hyundai Coupe and eventual Hyundai Accent WRC by fellow eventual one-time Subaru driver, Alister McRae. 6th on the 2001 Rally Great Britain marked his solitary points finish for the team, on his very last outing with them. He then enjoyed his final season with Skoda, in 2002, alongside female navigator Tina Thorner in the light of Parmander's retirement and with his team-mate in the sister Octavia WRC being the young Finn, Toni Gardemeister.

Eriksson departed the 'works' world rally scene at the end of 2002. He has since been competing in the Race to the Sky hillclimb event held in Cardrona Valley, New Zealand. He finished second in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

WRC victories

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