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december 21, 2017 - BMW Motorsport

BMW - Profile of Joel Eriksson: “I like challenges – the bigger, the better”

Munich. #joeleriksson (SWE) joins Philipp Eng (AUT) as one of two newcomers in the #bmw driver line-up for the 2018 #dtm season. He is making the step up from #bmw Motorsport Junior to works driver. At 19 years of age, he is the second youngest #bmw driver ever to have raced in the #dtm. A profile of the Swede:

When the #dtm season gets underway with the opening race at Hockenheim (GER) on 6th May 2018, #bmw Team RBM driver Eriksson will be exactly 19 years and 10 months old, making him the youngest #bmw driver since the Munich-based manufacturer returned to the #dtm in 2012. In the complete history of the #dtm, only one #bmw driver made his debut at a younger age than Eriksson: Czech driver Vaclav Bervid was four months younger than the Swede when he made his debut in the #bmw M3, before going on to contest both the 1992 and 1993 seasons. 

Eriksson’s potential became apparent early in his career. After many successes on the karting circuit in his native Sweden, he entered the ADAC Formula Masters for the first time in 2014, aged 15, and took just four races to record his first win. The following year, he finished runner-up in the ADAC Formula 4 series, with seven race wins to his name. In 2016, Eriksson won the prestigious “Masters of Formula 3” at Zandvoort (NED) whilst contesting his first season in Formula 3 – a year that he ended as the top rookie.

In the same season, he was accepted onto the #bmw Motorsport Junior programme, which included Eriksson taking part in the #dtm Young Driver Tests and driving the #bmw M4 #dtm Race Taxi at several race weekends. That gave him valuable insights into the daily work of the drivers and teams in the #dtm

At the same time, Eriksson was in title contention for long periods of his second season in Formula 3. He won seven races and ultimately finished runner-up in the championship.

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