Andreas Mikkelsen

Andreas Mikkelsen

Nation:	Norway
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally Great Britain 2006
Co-driver:	Anders Jæger Ola Fløne Mikko Markkula
Team:	Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT
Vehicle:	Hyundai i20 WRC
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 108 3 24 110
Points:	761
Status: After rally 10 of 14, 2019 season
Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC)
First rally:	Rally Sardinia 2010
Last rally:	Rally Cyprus 2011
Co-driver:	Ola Fløene
Team:	Škoda UK
Vehicle:	Škoda Fabia S2000
Rallies: Victories: Podiums: WP 28 4th 12 99
Championship title:	1
Points:	355
Status: After rally 11 of 11, 2011 season

Andreas Mikkelsen (born June 22, 1989 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian rally driver .

Career

Entry into rallying

In his youth, Andreas Mikkelsen practiced alpine skiing and from 2003 to 2004 also motocross . In both sports he was part of the Norwegian national youth team. A knee injury forced him to no longer practice skiing and motocross at the highest level. Then, at the age of 16, he turned all his attention to rallying. Andreas Mikkelsen trained in rally driving with a Ford Focus, with Ola Fløene at his side as co-driver.

Mikkelsen moved to Great Britain in 2006 because he was allowed to get his driver's license there when he was 17. After obtaining his driver's license, he took part in a number of smaller, national rallies, scoring five wins in Great Britain and one win in Estonia (Saaremaa Rally). This made him the youngest rally driver to ever win a rally in Great Britain. At the Rally Great Britain he made his debut in the World Rally Championship in a Ford Focus RS WRC 05 from Team Ramsport .

WRC from 2007 to 2017

Andreas Mikkelsen in the Volkswagen Polo R WRC at the Rally Sweden 2014

In 2007 Mikkelsen took part in eight rally world championship races. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg issued a special permit to start the Rally Norway , as Mikkelsen did not yet have a license to drive on public roads in Norway. He finished the rally in tenth place, with which he achieved his first respectable win in the WRC. At the Rally Ireland he achieved his best result of the season with 9th place and only narrowly missed the points. At the end of the season he received a current vehicle with the Ford Focus RS WRC 06.

From 2008, Mikkelsen received support from the former world rally champion Marcus Grönholm , who became Mikkelsen's mentor after his career ended. At the start of the season he picked up his first world championship points at the Rally Sweden with fifth place. He set the record for being the youngest driver to have achieved WRC points. A week later, he won his first rally in the Norwegian rally championship, making him the youngest driver ever to achieve this success. Later in the season he won three more rallies in the Norwegian championship. Nevertheless, he just lost the duel for the title against Mads Østberg and had to be satisfied with the runner-up. In the World Rally Championship, Mikkelsen drove a Ford Focus RS WRC 07 from Rally Germany onwards . In this rally, he set his first fastest time on a special stage . He then finished the Rally Catalonia in eighth place, which was the second time he achieved points. At the end of the season he finished 16th in the WRC with five points.

In 2012, Mikkelsen achieved 14th place in the World Championship with a Ford Focus with 13 points. For 2013, Mikkelsen got a contract with Volkswagen Motorsport in the junior team and drove ten rallies. With 50 world championship points he was 10th in the World Cup final. In 2014 Mikkelsen will also drive with co-driver Mikko Markkula at Volkswagen. He finished seventh at the Monte Carlo Rally . At the following World Championship round in Sweden , he finished second and thus on the podium. At the end of the season he was third.

The following year, Mikkelsen clinched his maiden victory at the Rally Spain . Again he was third

In 2016, now with the new co-driver Anders Jæger , the Norwegian achieved two more victories in Poland and Australia . Mikkelsen came third again.

Due to the suspension of Volkswagen's WRC project, the Norwegian did not receive a factory cockpit for 2017. That is why he drove the first rallies in a Skoda Fabia in the WRC2 class. From the Rally Italy he was given the Citroen cockpit from Stéphane Lefebvre , who had been dismissed due to poor performance.

Alternately in IRC and WRC

After the 2008 season, Mikkelsen separated from the Ramsport team due to some differences. The economic crisis caused additional difficulties, the budget for starts in the world championship was missing, so that he largely withdrew from the WRC. His father, the industrialist Steinar Mikkelsen, cut his financial support from 2009, so his son had to find sponsorship money for his rally activities himself. Erik Veiby, the chairman of Rally Norway , became its manager. With a Subaru Impreza WRX STI from Group N, Mikkelsen made a guest start at the 2009 Rally Norway. Otherwise he drove in the Norwegian rally championship, in which he won the Group N classification. He drove his only appearance with a World Rally Car in the WRC at the Rally Poland , where he started with a Škoda Fabia WRC , but retired with engine failure. He made his debut in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge with an Opel Corsa OPC S2000 at the Barum Czech Rally Zlín . In September 2009 Mikkelsen had a serious accident at the Larvik Rally in Norway, in which his vehicle hit a 10-year-old spectator who died at the scene of the accident.

Andreas Mikkelsen in the Ford Fiesta S2000 at Rally Scotland 2010

Mikkelsen started the 2010 season in the Subaru Impreza WRX STI in the Norwegian Rally Championship. Ford selected him for the WRC season opener, Rally Sweden, to drive the new Ford Fiesta S2000 on its WRC debut. He finished the rally in eleventh place in the overall standings and as the second-best driver with a Super 2000 car. Then he went back to the Intercontinental Rally Challenge and completed seven rallies there with a Ford Fiesta S2000. His best IRC result came in second at the Rally Scotland. He finished the season with 21 points in seventh place in the overall standings. At the end of the season, he returned to individual WRC races in the Škoda Fabia S2000 from the Škoda Rally Team Italia . At the Rally Great Britain he achieved a WRC point with tenth place overall and achieved class victory in the SWRC .

At the end of 2010, Mikkelsen signed a contract with Škoda UK for the 2011 season . He no longer had to pay for his rallies himself. He was also accepted into the FIA 's driver academy in 2011 . He drove the entire 2011 season with the Škoda Fabia S2000. At the Sata Rallye Açores 2011 , he fought for a long time for victory with Juho Hänninen and finally finished the rally in second place. At the Mecsek Rally he retired while in the lead on the penultimate special stage and at the following Rally San Remo he was only beaten by Thierry Neuville by 1.5 seconds . After all, he won his first IRC win at the Rally of Scotland by a clear margin. This also made him the youngest winner of an IRC rally to date. Before the last rally, Mikkelsen was in fourth place in the drivers' standings and still had a chance for the title. With a win in Cyprus he won the 2011 IRC overall ranking .

statistics

title

• Intercontinental Rally Challenge 2011
• Norwegian Rally Championship (Group N): 2009

WRC victories

No.	season	rally	Co-driver	vehicle
1	2015	Rally Catalonia	Ola Fløene	Volkswagen Polo R WRC
2	2016	Rally Poland	Jæger is different
3		Rally Australia

WRC results

year	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
2006	Ramsport	Ford Focus RS WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG	ITA	GRE	DEU	FIN	JPN	CYP	DOOR	OUT	NZL	GBR	-	-
																		DNF
2007	Ramsport	Ford Focus RS WRC	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN	DEU	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRL	GBR	-	-
					10		10				12	24		25th	DSQ		9	DNF
2008	Ford World Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	JOR	ITA	GRE	DOOR	FIN	DEU	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	GBR		5	16
				5				DNF		19th	12	11		8th	11
2009	Andreas Mikkelsen	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	IRL	NOR	CYP	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	POLE	FIN	OUT	ESP	GBR					-	-
				DNF
		Škoda Fabia WRC
										DNF
2010	Andreas Mikkelsen	Ford Fiesta S2000	SWE	MEX	JOR	DOOR	NZL	POR	BUL	FIN	DEU	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR				1	26th
			11
	Škoda Rally Team Italia	Škoda Fabia S2000
													18th		10
2011	Volkswagen Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA	ARG	GRE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR				-	-
										DNF
2012	Volkswagen Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	DEU	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP				13	14th
			13			DNF	DNF		27	7th		12	7th	21st
2013	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR				50	10
						6th	8th	4th	DNF	10		6th	7th	DNF	5
2014	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR				150	3
			7th	2	19th	4th	4th	4th	2	4th	3	3	2	7th	DNF
2015	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR				171	3
			3	3	3	DNF	3	36	2	DNF	3	4th	3	1	3
2016	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	CHN	FRA	ESP	GBR	OUT			154	3
			2	4th	DNF	3	2	13	1	7th	4th	removed	3	DNF	12	1
2017	Skoda Motorsport	Skoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	ESP	GBR	OUT				54	12
			7th			7th		DNF
	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT	Citroën C3 WRC
									8th	9		2
	Hyundai Motorsport	Hyundai i20 WRC
													18th	4th	13
2018	Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT	Hyundai i20 WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA	FIN	DEU	DOOR	GBR	ESP	OUT				84	6th
			13	3	4th	7th	5	16	18th	10	6th	5	6th	10	11
2019	Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT	Hyundai i20 WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	CHL	POR	ITA	FIN	DEU	DOOR	GBR	ESP	OUT			79	5
			DNF	4th	DNF		2	7th		3	4th	6th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Web links

Commons : Andreas Mikkelsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• official homepage
• Results and statistics on eWRC-results.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Higgins and Mikkelsen in Wales (Rallye-Magazin.de on October 25, 2006)
2. ↑ Can Mikkelsen start? (Rallye-Magazin.de on January 14, 2007)
3. ↑ Mikkelsen: "A fantastic experience!" (Motorsport-Total.com on February 19, 2007)
4. ↑ Mikkelsen: Now in 2006 Focus (Motorsport-Total.com on November 27, 2007)
5. ↑ Grönholm as a rally driving instructor (Motorsport-Total.com on January 12, 2008)
6. ↑ Mikkelsen also made history in Sweden (Motorsport-Total.com on February 10, 2008)
7. ↑ Mikkelsen: Another new record (Motorsport-Total.com on February 18, 2008)
8. ↑ Title decision in Norway (Rallye-Magazin.de on September 29, 2008)
9. ↑ Mikkelsen drives in the 07 Focus (Motorsport-Total.com on August 12, 2008)
10. ↑ Loeb wins for the seventh time in Germany (Motorsport-Total.com on August 17, 2008)
11. ↑ SS16-18: Loeb triumphs in Spain (Motorsport-Total.com on October 5, 2008)
12. ↑ Military service: Mikkelsen takes a year off (Motorsport-Total.com on January 4, 2009)
13. ↑ Third title for Mads Östberg (Rallye-Magazin.de on September 29, 2009)
14. ↑ Mikkelsen: WRC comeback in Poland (Motorsport-Total.com on June 6, 2009)
15. ↑ Mikkelsen: IRC debut in the Czech Republic (Motorsport-Total.com on July 30, 2009)
16. ↑ Fikk skrens i 130 km / t - varslet selv om ulykken (Dagbladet.no on September 12, 2009)
17. ↑ Mikkelsen in the new Fiesta at the Rally Sweden (Motorsport-Total.com on January 15, 2010)
18. ↑ Mikkelsen: Seven IRC runs in the Ford Fiesta S2000 (Motorsport-Total.com on February 9, 2010)
19. ↑ Scotland: Hänninen crowns his "perfect year" (Motorsport-Total.com on October 17, 2010)
20. ↑ Mikkelsen starts in France in a Škoda (Motorsport-Total.com on September 5, 2010)
21. ↑ Unbeatable: Loeb also triumphs in Wales! (Motorsport-Total.com on November 14, 2010)
22. ↑ Mikkelsen joins Škoda UK (Motorsport-Total.com on November 9, 2010)
23. ↑ Mikkelsen: Finally no more Paydriver (Motorsport-Total.com on February 19, 2011)
24. ↑ Mikkelsen and Abbring receive FIA ​​funding (Motorsport-Total.com on February 11, 2011)
25. ↑ Mikkelsen: "The best feeling in a rally car" (Motorsport-Total.com on October 10, 2011)