Per-Gunnar Andersson (rally driver)

Per-Gunnar Andersson

Andersson in Portugal 2015
Personal information
Nationality	Swedish
Born	10 March 1980
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2002–present
Teams	Suzuki, Stobart Ford
Rallies	74
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	6
Total points	34
First rally	2002 Swedish Rally

Per-Gunnar "P-G" Andersson (born 10 March 1980 in Årjäng) is a Swedish rally driver. He is a two-time winner of the Junior World Rally Championship.

Career

Andersson celebrating his first JWRC victory at 2004 Rally Finland

Andersson with Suzuki SX4 WRC at 2008 Rally Deutschland

Andersson at 2010 Rally Finland with Škoda Fabia S2000

Andersson was competing in Junior World Rally Championship since 2003. He became JWRC champion in his first complete season, season 2004, piloting a Suzuki Ignis S1600, with two wins, a second place, an eight place and two retirements. He scored 39 points during this year and runner-up Nicolas Bernardi piloting Renault Clio S1600 scored only 2 points less.

In 2005 season, Andersson continued competing in JWRC with Suzuki Ignis S1600 and later Suzuki Swift S1600. Although he won Rally Acropolis, rest of season wasn't that successful and in final standings Andersson finished sixth with 30 points.

In 2006, Andersson was still racing in JWRC with Suzuki Swift S1600. He won Rally Sweden but was also excluded from Rally Turkey and crashed at Rally GB. He finished season as third with 29 points, second was Urmo Aava also with Suzuki Swift S1600 and 31 points, Patrik Sandell became JWRC champion with Renault Clio S1600 and 32 points.

In 2007 Andersson became Junior World Rally Champion for a second time with a Suzuki Swift S1600. Andersson won three rallies, scored one second place and one fourth place. Runner-up was Urmo Aava with Suzuki Swift S1600 and third was Martin Prokop with Citroen C2 S1600.

With two JWRC titles he was finally chosen by factory WRC team. Suzuki World Rally Team in the 2008 season.^[1] He started the season by finishing eighth at the 2008 Monte Carlo Rally in his first rally in a World Rally Car.^[2] He suffered from many mistakes and retirements during the season, finishing in the points only four times. His best result came in last two rallies of season, fifth places at Rally Japan and Rally GB.

After the withdrawal of the Suzuki team at the end of 2008, Andersson was left without a regular drive for 2009. A drive in an ageing Škoda Fabia at Rally Norway saw two stage wins and a place in the top six on the first day before clutch problems forced him to retire. After that Andersson participated only at few local rallies and prepared for next season.

2010 Andersson was racing in SWRC with Škoda Fabia S2000, and won SWRC Rally Sweden. Although he was later removed from SWRC 2010 standings and only his victory in Sweden counted. He also raced a Ford Focus WRC in Rally Bulgaria for Stobart WRT and finished seventh..

In 2011, Andersson competed in two WRC events with a Ford Fiesta RS WRC, finishing seventh in Sweden and in Italy. He drove Tommi Mäkinen Racing's Subaru Impreza STi R4 on Rally Finland, finishing fifteenth. He was also signed by Proton Motorsport to drive one of the Satria Neo S2000s in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. The team's season was full of mechanical failures, and the competitiveness of the car was also poor compared to rivals (i.e. Skoda Fabia S2000, Peugeot 207 S2000); he only scored points in the Barum Czech Rally Zlín, finishing ninth.

As for 2012, Proton decided to enter the S2000 World Rally Championship (SWRC), with Andersson as their number one driver. The season started off bittersweet, with Andersson leading almost till the end of the Monte Carlo Rallye, but was forced to retire due to fire. In Sweden, he bounced back, and won the SWRC category. He followed this up with a second place in New Zealand, and with a win in Finland. However, due to various problems and retirements in Wales and France, Craig Breen passed Andersson to claim the lead of the category, and with Andersson unable to win in Spain, he finished runner-up to the Irishman, although this was Proton's best result since winning the PWRC in 2002.

Racing record

Complete WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2002	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Renault Clio RS	MON	SWE 43	FRA	ESP	CYP	ARG	GRE	KEN	FIN	GER	ITA	NZL	AUS	GBR			NC	0
2003	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Renault Clio S1600	MON	SWE	TUR	NZL	ARG	GRE	CYP	GER	FIN Ret	AUS	ITA 19	FRA	ESP Ret	GBR Ret			NC	0
2004	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON 19					GRE Ret	TUR 11	ARG	FIN 16	GER	JPN Ret	GBR Ret	ITA 9	FRA	ESP 16	AUS	NC	0
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII		SWE 25	MEX	NZL	CYP
2005	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON 18	SWE 18	MEX 14	NZL 17	ITA 22	CYP 33	TUR 19	GRE 15	ARG								NC	0
		Suzuki Swift S1600										FIN Ret	GER 16	GBR 22	JPN 22	FRA	ESP Ret	AUS
2006	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Suzuki Swift S1600	MON	SWE 19	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG 34	ITA 21	GRE	GER	FIN 18	JPN	CYP	TUR DSQ	AUS	NZL	GBR Ret	NC	0
2007	Suzuki Sports Europe	Suzuki Swift S1600	MON	SWE	NOR 18	MEX	POR 14	ARG	ITA 14	GRE	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP 15	FRA 20	JPN	IRE	GBR	NC	0
2008	Suzuki World Rally Team	Suzuki SX4 WRC	MON 8	SWE Ret	MEX Ret	ARG 24	JOR Ret	ITA 9	GRE 11	TUR Ret	FIN Ret	GER 15	NZL 6	ESP 32	FRA 17	JPN 5	GBR 5		12th	12
2009	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Škoda Fabia WRC	IRE	NOR Ret	CYP	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	POL	FIN	AUS	ESP	GBR					NC	0
2010	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Škoda Fabia S2000	SWE 10																13th	8
	Rufa Sport			MEX	JOR 16	TUR	NZL	POR 16		FIN 10	GER 13	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR
	Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 08							BUL 7
2011	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	SWE 7	MEX	POR	JOR													20th	6
	M-Sport Stobart Ford World Rally Team						ITA 15	ARG	GRE
	Tommi Mäkinen Racing	Subaru Impreza STi R4								FIN 15	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR
2012	Proton Motorsport	Proton Satria Neo S2000	MON Ret	SWE 14	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL 23	FIN 11	GER	GBR 24	FRA 24	ITA	ESP 8				24th	4
2013	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Ford Fiesta S2000	MON	SWE	MEX	POR Ret	ARG	GRE											23rd	4
	AT Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RS WRC							ITA 13	FIN 8	GER Ret	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR

JWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	JWRC	Points
2004	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON 8	GRE Ret	TUR 1	FIN 1	GBR Ret	ITA 1	ESP 2			1st	39
2005	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON 6	MEX 2	ITA 5	GRE 1						6th	30
		Suzuki Swift S1600					FIN Ret	GER 4	FRA	ESP Ret
2006	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Suzuki Swift S1600	SWE 1	ESP	FRA	ARG 3	ITA 4	GER	FIN 2	TUR DSQ	GBR Ret	3rd	29
2007	Suzuki Sports Europe	Suzuki Swift S1600	NOR 1	POR 1	ITA 2	FIN	GER	ESP 1	FRA 4			1st	43

SWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	SWRC	Points
2010	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Škoda Fabia S2000	SWE 1										9th†	25†
	Rufa Sport			MEX	JOR 3	NZL	POR 5	FIN 2	GER 3	JPN	FRA	GBR
2012	Proton Motorsport	Proton Satria Neo S2000	MON Ret	SWE 1	POR	NZL 2	FIN 1	GBR 6	FRA 3	ESP 2			2nd	109

† Andersson's entrant Rufa Sport failed to compete in the required number of events, meaning all of Andersson's points scored with the team have been annulled. His win in Sweden remains as he competed as a wildcard entrant and not with Rufa.

APRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	APRC	Points
2012	Proton Motorsport	Proton Satria Neo S2000	NZL 2	NCL Ret	AUS 4	MYS Ret	JPN	CHN	7th	55

Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results

Supercar

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Position	Points
2012	Hedströms Motorsport	Škoda Fabia T16 4x4	GBR	FRA	AUT	HUN	NOR	SWE 8	BEL	NED	FIN	GER	28th	9
2014	Hedströms Motorsport	Škoda Fabia	GBR	NOR	BEL	GER 8	ITA						24th	9

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

Supercar

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Position	Points
2014	Hedtsröms Motorsport	Škoda Fabia	POR	GBR	NOR	FIN	SWE	BEL	CAN	FRA	GER 13	ITA				38th	8
	EKS RX	Audi S1											TUR 13	ARG
2015	Marklund Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo R	POR 6	HOC 9	BEL 4	GBR 13	GER 14	SWE 16	CAN	NOR 5	FRA 13	BAR	TUR 20	ITA 14	ARG	13th	70

References

1. WRC: Official: Suzuki names drivers for '08., motorsport news, results, features, teams, drivers, updates
2. WRC: P-G gets Suzuki off mark on R1., motorsport news, results, features, teams, drivers, updates

External links

• Official website
• Andersson at ewrc-results.com