Felix Rosenqvist

Felix Rosenqvist

Rosenqvist in 2010.
Nationality Sweden Swedish
Born (1991-11-07) 7 November 1991
Värnamo, Sweden
European Formula 3 Championship career
Debut season 2012
Current team Prema Powerteam
Car no. 1
Former teams Mücke Motorsport
Starts 116
Wins 28
Poles 25
Fastest laps 27
Best finish 1st in 2015
Previous series
2011-12
2010
2009
2009
2008
200708
Formula 3 Euro Series
German Formula Three
Formula Renault 2.0 NEZ
Formula Renault 2.0 Sweden
Formula Asia 2.0
Asian Formula Renault
Championship titles
2015

2009
2009
2008
European Formula 3 Championship
Formula Renault 2.0 NEZ
Formula Renault 2.0 Sweden
Formula Asia 2.0

Felix Rosenqvist (born 7 November 1991 in Värnamo) is a Swedish racing driver who is the reigning European Formula Three Champion, having won the title in 2015 with the Italian team Prema Powerteam. He holds the record of being the only one ever winning the Macau Grand Prix (twice), Masters of Formula 3 (twice), Grand Prix de Pau and the European Formula Three Championship.

Racing career

Rosenqvist won the 2008 Formula Renault 2.0 Asia and 2009 Formula Renault 2.0 Sweden.

In 2010 he was fifth German Formula Three Championship with 2 victories, 8 podiums and 1 pole position. He also attended the 2010 Macau Grand Prix Formula Three where he finished on ninth after have qualified seventh in his debut with the same Swedish/British racing team Performance Racing.

He has also competed in such series as Formula Palmer Audi and few different Formula Renault series where he was very successful and won 3 championship titles.

For 2011, he graduated to the Formula 3 Euro Series with the Mucke Motorsport team, where he finished 5th. In 2012 he finished fourth in the Formula 3 Euro Series and third at the FIA European Formula 3 Championship. In 2013 he was runner-up at the FIA European Formula 3 Championship.

In his fourth year with Mücke, the Swede finished eighth at the FIA F3 Championship. In 2015 he switched to Prema, claiming the FIA F3 Championship.

Also, Rosenqvist won the 2011 and 2013 Masters of Formula 3, as well as the Macau Grand Prix in 2014 and 2015.

In February 2016 he announced that he would compete in the 2016 Indy Lights series for Belardi Auto Racing,[1] and would also combine a campaign in the 2016 Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup, sharing a Mercedes with Tristan Vautier, with a role as reserve driver for Mercedes in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.[2]

Racing record

Career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2007 Asian Formula Renault Challenge March3 Racing 14 1 1 1 6 193 4th
Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Trakstar Racing 2 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2008 Formula Renault 2.0 Asia March3 Racing 13 10 8 5 12 215 1st
Asian Formula Renault Challenge 2 2 0 1 2 60 8th
Formula Renault 2.0 Italy Prema Powerteam 2 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2009 Formula Renault 2.0 Sweden BS Motorsport 14 6 6 3 13 115 1st
Formula Renault 2.0 NEZ 10 3 2 1 9 193 1st
Formula Palmer Audi PalmerSport 3 2 0 2 2 48 21st
2010 German Formula Three Performance Racing 18 2 1 0 8 83 5th
2011 Formula 3 Euro Series Mücke Motorsport 27 1 0 5 10 219 5th
Masters of Formula 3 1 1 0 1 1 N/A 1st
Macau Grand Prix 1 0 0 0 0 N/A DNF
2012 Formula 3 Euro Series Mücke Motorsport 24 4 3 3 9 212.5 4th
FIA European Formula 3 Championship 20 4 3 3 7 192 3rd
Masters of Formula 3 1 0 0 0 0 N/A 9th
Macau Grand Prix 1 0 0 0 1 N/A 2nd
2013 FIA European Formula 3 Championship Mücke Motorsport 30 10 4 10 18 457 2nd
Masters of Formula 3 1 1 1 1 1 N/A 1st
Macau Grand Prix 1 0 0 0 0 N/A DNF
2014 FIA European Formula 3 Championship Mücke Motorsport 33 1 1 3 2 198 8th
Macau Grand Prix 1 1 1 0 1 N/A 1st
2015 FIA European Formula 3 Championship Prema Powerteam 33 13 16 13 24 518 1st
Macau Grand Prix 1 1 1 1 1 N/A 1st
2016 Indy Lights Belardi Auto Racing 5 1 1 1 1 74 7th*
Blancpain GT Sprint Cup AKKA ASP 2 0 0 1 0 0 NC*
ADAC GT Masters AMG - Team Zakspeed 2 0 0 0 0 13 15th*

* Season still in progress.

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

(key)

Year Entrant Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 DC Points
2011 Mücke Motorsport Mercedes LEC
1

2
LEC
2

4
LEC
3

Ret
HOC
1

5
HOC
2

5
HOC
3

3
ZAN
1

2
ZAN
2

3
ZAN
3

2
RBR
1

Ret
RBR
2

10
RBR
3

Ret
NOR
1

DSQ
NOR
2

5
NOR
3

5
NÜR
1

3
NÜR
2

2
NÜR
3

4
SIL
1

4
SIL
2

7
SIL
3

Ret
VAL
1

2
VAL
2

6
VAL
3

4
HOC
1

2
HOC
2

1
HOC
3

Ret
5th 219
2012 Mücke Motorsport Mercedes HOC
1

3
HOC
2

3
HOC
3

3
BRH
1

7
BRH
2

5
BRH
3

Ret
RBR
1

9
RBR
2

Ret
RBR
3

11
NOR
1

6
NOR
2

4
NOR
3

14
NÜR
1

4
NÜR
2

3
NÜR
2

Ret
ZAN
1

1
ZAN
2

6
ZAN
3

4
VAL
1

13
VAL
2

8
VAL
3

1
HOC
1

1
HOC
2

9
HOC
3

1
4th 212.5

Complete FIA European Formula 3 Championship results

(key)

Year Entrant Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 DC Points
2012 Mücke Motorsport Mercedes HOC
1

3
HOC
2

3
PAU
1

4
PAU
2

6
BRH
1

7
BRH
2

Ret
RBR
1

9
RBR
2

11
NOR
1

6
NOR
2

14
SPA
1

9
SPA
2

Ret
NÜR
1

4
NÜR
2

Ret
ZAN
1

1
ZAN
2

4
VAL
1

13
VAL
2

1
HOC
1

1
HOC
2

1
3rd 192
2013 Mücke Motorsport Mercedes MNZ
1

Ret
MNZ
2

4
MNZ
3

11
SIL
1

3
SIL
2

1
SIL
3

2
HOC
1

8
HOC
2

10
HOC
3

1
BRH
1

4
BRH
2

5
BRH
3

3
RBR
1

1
RBR
2

1
RBR
3

1
NOR
1

2
NOR
2

2
NOR
3

1
NÜR
1

3
NÜR
2

9
NÜR
3

5
ZAN
1

2
ZAN
2

1
ZAN
3

1
VAL
1

10
VAL
2

9
VAL
3

6
HOC
1

1
HOC
2

1
HOC
3

2
2nd 457
2014 Mücke Motorsport Mercedes SIL
1

9
SIL
2

14
SIL
3

7
HOC
1

5
HOC
2

7
HOC
3

Ret
PAU
1

14
PAU
2

Ret
PAU
3

1
HUN
1

3
HUN
2

4
HUN
3

17
SPA
1

7
SPA
2

4
SPA
3

9
NOR
1

6
NOR
2

6
NOR
3

11
MSC
1

8
MSC
2

7
MSC
3

5
RBR
1

4
RBR
2

Ret
RBR
3

Ret
NÜR
1

8
NÜR
2

7
NÜR
3

Ret
IMO
1

4
IMO
2

9
IMO
3

Ret
HOC
1

5
HOC
2

6
HOC
3

4
8th 198
2015 Prema Powerteam Mercedes SIL
1

1
SIL
2

7
SIL
3

12
HOC
1

2
HOC
2

1
HOC
3

2
PAU
1

14
PAU
2

5
PAU
3

6
MNZ
1

1
MNZ
2

1
MNZ
3

1
SPA
1

2
SPA
2

Ret
SPA
3

5
NOR
1

3
NOR
2

17
NOR
3

13
ZAN
1

2
ZAN
2

1
ZAN
3

3
RBR
1

2
RBR
2

1
RBR
3

2
ALG
1

3
ALG
2

1
ALG
3

1
NÜR
1

1
NÜR
2

1
NÜR
3

1
HOC
1

3
HOC
2

3
HOC
3

1
1st 518

American open-wheel racing results

Indy Lights

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Rank Points
2016 Belardi Auto Racing STP
7
STP
1*
PHX
15
ALA
14
ALA
8
IMS
IMS
INDY
RDA
RDA
IOW
TOR
TOR
MDO
MDO
LAG
LAG
7th* 74*

* Season still in progress.

Complete Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup results

Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pos. Points
2016 AKKA ASP Mercedes-AMG GT3 Pro MIS
QR

7
MIS
CR

32
BRH
QR

BRH
CR

NÜR
QR

NÜR
CR

HUN
QR

HUN
CR

CAT
QR

CAT
CR

NC* 0*

* Season still in progress.

References

  1. Simmons, Marcus (23 February 2016). "Macau GP winner and F3 champ Rosenqvist secures Indy Lights move". autosport.com. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  2. "Felix Rosenqvist gets Mercedes DTM role and GT race programme". autosport.com. 26 February 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2016.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Valtteri Bottas
Masters of Formula 3
Winner

2011
Succeeded by
Daniel Juncadella
Preceded by
Daniel Juncadella
Masters of Formula 3
Winner

2013
Succeeded by
Max Verstappen
Preceded by
Alex Lynn
Macau Grand Prix
Winner

2014-2015
Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Esteban Ocon
European Formula 3
Champion

2015
Succeeded by
Incumbent
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