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Rickard Rydell
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Rickard Rydell (born 22 September 1967 in Stockholm) is a Swedish racing driver.
In the early 1990s, Rydell raced in various Formula Three series. He also won pole position in the 1991 Macau Grand Prix, and won the 1992 race. He competed in Japanese F3 in 1992 and 1993, British F3 in 1989 and 1991, and the Swedish F3 series in 1987 and 1988. In 1990, he raced in F3000. In 1984-1985, he won the Swedish 100cc go kart championship.
His first year in the BTCC was 1994, when his car was quite distinctive, driving a Volvo 850 Estate, when it was normal to race saloons. The team switched to a saloon in 1995 and Rydell took pole for 13 of the 24 races, but several slow starts contributed to him winning only 4 times and finishing 3rd in the championship, a result repeated in 1996, 1999 and 2000.
In 1998, he won the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) in a Volvo, and also won the 1998 Super Touring Bathurst 1000, sharing a Volvo S40 with Jim Richards.
He spent 2001 largely waiting for his European Touring Car Championship Volvo to be built, but he raced a Ferrari 550 Maranello in the FIA GT Championship. In 2002 and 2003, he raced in the ETCC with works support for 2002 but as a privateer a year later. Since 2004 he has raced for SEAT in the World Touring Car Championship.
In 2004 he took part in two races in the Swedish Touring Car Championship, claiming one victory. Even though Rickard had finished 7th in the 2006 World Touring Car Championship it is looking ever more likely that he will not be racing in Toruing Cars for 2007 as he has not been chosen for the SEAT driver line up and is so more likely to drive an Aston Martin DBR9 with the Prodrive team in the GT Championship following last working with the team then using Ferrari's in 2004 in the Le Mans with Colin Mcrae and Darren Turner.
| Preceded by Alain Menu |
BTCC Drivers' Champion 1998 |
Succeeded by Laurent Aiello |
| Preceded by David Coulthard |
Macau GP winner 1992 |
Succeeded by Jörg Müller |
Categories: Articles to be expanded since January 2007 | All articles to be expanded | Swedish racecar drivers | 1967 births | Swedish Formula Three Championship drivers | British Formula Three Championship drivers | Japanese Formula Three Championship drivers | British Touring Car Championship drivers | Swedish Touring Car Championship drivers | World Touring Car Championship drivers | Living people