WRX: Eriksson Returns to Defend RX of Sweden Crown

Swede Sebastian Eriksson won the 2019 World RX of Sweden in an Olsbergs MSE run Ford Fiesta.

In 2020, he will return with the same team to defend his crown, this time running a Honda Civic Type R FK8.

Eriksson said, “It felt like everything just went our way at Höljes last year. It was the race I wanted to win more than any other and the biggest result of my career. It was nice to see the reaction of everybody in the paddock – that meant a lot. I’m really excited to be going back again. Höljes is the most iconic rallycross track in the world, and this year, we get double the chances to win and double the fun. It’s the first time the World Championship has staged a double-header so the regular drivers might not be so used to that format, but I have done a lot of events like that so hopefully that might give me a little bit of an advantage,

“It will be interesting to see how the Honda shapes up on the World Championship stage. It’s obviously a completely different shape and has different characteristics to the Fiesta, but in testing, we’ve achieved very similar lap times with the two cars. We’ve worked hard to update the Civic in recent months, which should make it a bit more competitive so I’m positive we can be up at the sharp end again – and how cool would it be to win back-to-back in two different cars? I haven’t seen the full entry list yet, but there’s no question that it’s going to be fiercely-contested – this is the pinnacle, after all. Johan Kristoffersson is back in the game, we saw how quick Niclas Grönholm and Robin Larsson were at Höljes in RallyX Nordic earlier this month and then, of course, you’ve got the likes of the Hansen brothers and Andreas Bakkerud so it’s clearly going to be an extremely tough field – but I’m definitely up for the fight!”