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CV Date of birth 1998-06-28 Nationality Swedish

CV – Year by year overview

2020 ABB FIA Championship | test and reserve driver, GEOX DRAGON 2020 ADAC GT Masters, BMW works driver | season in progress 2019 DTM, BMW works driver | 2 podiums 2018 FIA F3 – GP | runner-up 2018 DTM, BMW works driver | 1 win, (second-youngest winner in history) 2017 FIA F3 World Cup – Macau GP | pole position 2017 FIA F3 European Championship | runner-up (7 wins, 14 podiums) 2016 FIA F3 European Championship | fifth overall, Rookie of the Year 2016 | winner from pole 2015 ADAC F4 Championship | runner-up (7 wins, 10 podiums) 2014 ADAC Formel Masters | fifth overall (1 win, 6 podiums) 2013 Karting | KZ2 (Swedish champion) 2012 Karting | Formula Yamaha (winner of Gothenburg Grand Prix) 2011 Karting | Formula Yamaha (Swedish champion) 2010 Karting | Junior 60 (regional champion)

Awards

2018 International accomplishment 2017 Swedish junior racing driver of the year 2016 Swedish junior racing driver of the year 2015 Swedish young driver of the year 2015 International accomplishment 2015 Swedish junior racing driver of the year 2014 Swedish young driver of the year 2014 Special Award DTM race winner, Misano 2018 Leading the Leading the Macau Grand Prix Formula E testing in Marrakesh The story

Joel Eriksson started out karting in his native Sweden in late 2007, progressing from the Formula Micro category into Junior 60 in 2008. By 2010, he became regional champion, and a year later, he claimed the outright Swedish championship Formula Yamaha crown.

Victory in the competitive Gothenburg Grand Prix – Scandinavia’s main karting race – followed in 2012, with Joel then bidding farewell to karting with a sole season of KZ2 racing at the age of 14 in 2013. As the youngest driver in the field, he went on to beat significantly older and more experienced rivals to lift the Swedish championship title.

For 2014, Joel advanced into single-seater racing with Team Motopark in the ADAC Formel Masters championship. He scored his maiden victory four rounds into the season, and was a regular frontrunner over the remainder of the campaign. Racking up a total of six podium finishes, he wound up fifth in the overall standings, as top Team Motopark runner.

2015 marked another successful year in Joel’s fledgling single-seater career, as he fought for the ADAC title until the final round of the season, eventually finishing the campaign as championship runner-up. He bagged a total of seven wins and ten podiums.

Progressing to the ultra-competitive FIA Formula 3 European Championship in 2016, Joel notched up his maiden F3 podium on his very first weekend in the category, and went on to claim his first win at Spa-Francorchamps later in the season. With ten podiums from 30 races, he comfortably claimed Rookie of the Year honours and wound up a strong fifth overall in the final standings. He also managed to win the prestigious Masters of F3 standalone event at his first attempt, and debuted at the Macau Grand Prix in China.

In 2017, Joel returned to the FIA Formula 3 European Championship as one of the main title contenders. With seven wins and 14 podiums to his tally, he eventually finished the season as runner-up behind Lando Norris, handing Team Motopark its best-ever FIA F3 result. Joel later qualified on pole position for the end-of-season FIA F3 World Cup in Macau, ahead of season-long rival Norris, but was taken out from the main race by a fellow driver while holding the lead.

For 2018, Joel was drafted into BMW’s works squad in the DTM, becoming the marque’s youngest works driver. He delivered a breakthrough maiden victory at Misano in Italy, just a few rounds into the season, and became the second-youngest driver of all time to win a DTM race. At the end of the season, he made a one- off return to Formula 3 in Macau, battling for the victory despite having been out of the category for a full year. He eventually finished runner-up.

2019 saw Joel continue with BMW in the DTM, scoring two podiums, and leading the manufacturer’s qualifying charge in the FIA GT World Cup in Macau at the end of the season.

In 2020, Joel combines a racing effort with Schubert as a BMW works driver in ADAC GT Masters with a test and reserve driver role for GEOX DRAGON in Formula E. FURTHER INFORMATION

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