Carl Rosenblad

Carl Rosenblad, 2011

Carl "Calle" Rosenblad (born April 28, 1969 in Västervik ) is a Swedish racing driver .

Career

Carl Rosenblad began his racing career in 1990 in the Swedish Formula Opel Championship and stayed in this racing series for five seasons. In 1996 he switched to Formula 3000 , but left again at the end of the year due to continued unsuccessfulness. Without the sponsorship money necessary in modern motorsport, the Swede had a hard time gaining a foothold in international motorsport. As early as 1994 he had switched to the Interseries , which at that point had long since passed its prime and made it possible to do motorsport with less financial outlay with discarded and converted former Formula 1 racing cars . In 1994 he finished third with a Footwork FA11 at the competition in Most.

In 1995 and 1996 - when he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 24 Hours of Le Mans - Rosenblad had made a name for himself in touring and sports car racing and was awarded a works contract with Kremer Racing in 1997 . In 1998 he switched to Larbre Compétition and was third overall in the endurance race in Daytona and competed in the FIA GT Championship . At the same time, he drove a Nissan Primera in the Swedish touring car championship .

Up to 2007 he had been involved in Le Mans eight times and in 2005 he contested one season and in 2007 individual races in the World Touring Car Championship . His last success was second overall in the Vitaphone Racing Team's Maserati MC12 GT1 at the 2009 Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1996	Ennea SRL Igol	Ferrari F40 GTE	Luciano della Noce	Not so Olofsson	failure	Engine failure
1997	Kremer Racing	Kremer K8 Spyder	Jürgen Lässig	Tomás Saldaña	failure	Engine failure
1998	Société Larbre Compétition	Porsche 911 GT2	Robin Donovan	Jean-Pierre Jarier	failure	Power transmission
1999	Riley & Scott Europe	Riley & Scott Mk III	Marco Apicella	Shane Lewis	failure	Engine failure
2001	Paul Belmondo Racing	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Vincent Vosse	Vanina Ickx	failure	accident
2002	Larbre Compétition	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Jean-Luc Chéreau	Jean-Claude Lagniez	Rank 25
2003	Courage Compétition	Courage C65	David Hallyday	Philippe Alliot	failure	Valve damage
2007	GPC Sports	Ferrari F430 GT2	Matthew Marsh	Jesús Diez de Villarroel	failure	suspension

Web links

Commons : Carl Rosenblad  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Carl Rosenblad at Racing Sports Cars