Olsbergs MSE

Olsbergs MSE

Founded	2005
Team principal(s)	Andréas Eriksson
Current series	FIA World Rallycross Championship Global Rallycross
Former series	FIA European Championships for Rallycross Drivers
Noted drivers	WorldRX 68. Niclas Grönholm 96. Kevin Eriksson GRC 31. Joni Wiman 93. Sebastian Eriksson
Teams' Championships	2014 FIA WRX
Drivers' Championships	2012 GRC Foust 2013 GRC Heikkinen 2014 GRC Wiman

Andréas Eriksson in action during the 2008 Euro RX of Sweden

Andréas Eriksson in action during the 2009 European Rallycross Championship

Pontus Tidemand in action during the Irwindale round of the 2011 GRC

Marcus Grönholms 2012 Ford Fiesta Global RallyCross car

Tanner Foust in action during the 2013 Euro RX of Great Britain

Reinis Nitišs in action during the 2014 World RX of Great Britain

Andreas Bakkerud in action during the 2015 World RX of Barcelona

Joni Wiman in action during the Florida round of the 2015 GRC

Niclas Grönholm in action during the 2016 World RX of Great Britain

Olsbergs MSE, which also competes under the title OMSE, is an auto racing team founded by Swedish former rally champion Andréas Eriksson as Motorsport Evolution (MSE) in 2005. In 2008 it ran under the name Ford Team RS Europe, while in 2009 Swedish electro-hydraulic control systems manufacturer Olsbergs bought 50% of the team and it was renamed Olsbergs MSE.^[1]

The team has been competing in rallycross since its creation, and has been backed by Ford Performance until 2016.

The team is racing in the 2016 Global Rallycross series with Honda Civic Coupé's, backed by Honda Performance Development. However they will remain run Ford Fiesta ST's in the 2016 FIA World Rallycross Championship.

Racing record

Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results

Division 1

Year	Entrant	Car	No.	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	ERX	Points
2005	MSE	Ford Fiesta ST	20	Andréas Eriksson	FRA	POR	AUT	CZE	NOR	SWE 15	BEL	NED	POL	GER		45th	2
2006	Ford Team RS Sweden	Ford Fiesta ST	18	Andréas Eriksson	POR NC	FRA NC	CZE 4	AUT NC	SWE 16	HUN	BEL 11	NED 3	NOR 11	POL (15)	GER 2	10th	58
2007	Ford Team RS Sweden	Ford Fiesta ST	10	Andréas Eriksson	POR 5	FRA 6	HUN 4	AUT 1	SWE (15)	NOR 1	BEL 6	NED (11)	POL 3	CZE 3		3rd	117
2008	Ford Team RS Europe	Ford Fiesta ST	3	Andréas Eriksson	POR (10)	FRA 7	HUN 3	AUT 3	NOR 5	SWE 6	BEL (11)	NED 9	CZE 11	POL 3	GER 1	5th	112
			35	Marcus Grönholm	POR	FRA	HUN	AUT	NOR	SWE 1	BEL	NED 10	CZE	POL 12	GER	16th	32
2009	Ford Team RS Sweden	Ford Fiesta T16 4x4	5	Andréas Eriksson	GBR (11)	POR 1	FRA 10	HUN 6	AUT 5	SWE (28)	BEL 16	GER 2	POL 1	CZE 7		4th	98
			64	Henning Solberg	GBR	POR	FRA	HUN	AUT	SWE 4	BEL	GER	POL	CZE 5		15th	30
2010	Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta T16 4x4	4	Andréas Eriksson	POR 6	FRA 7	GBR (NC)	HUN 9	SWE 4	FIN NC	BEL	GER 5	POL 6	CZE 10		6th	72

Supercar

Year	Entrant	Car	No.	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	ERX	Points
2011	Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta T16 4x4	6	Andréas Eriksson	GBR 9	POR 2	FRA 10	NOR (11)	SWE 5	BEL	NED	AUT	POL	CZE	12th	44
2013	Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta ST	18	Patrick Sandell	GBR	POR	HUN	FIN	NOR	SWE 9	FRA	AUT	GER		22nd	14
			34	Tanner Foust	GBR 1	POR	HUN	FIN 1	NOR	SWE	FRA 6	AUT	GER		9th	68
			38	Brian Deegan	GBR	POR	HUN	FIN 13	NOR	SWE	FRA	AUT	GER		37th	4
			57	Toomas Heikkinen	GBR	POR	HUN	FIN 7	NOR	SWE	FRA	AUT	GER		18th	18
			63	Mikael Thiman	GBR	POR	HUN	FIN	NOR	SWE 13	FRA	AUT	GER		39th	4
2014	Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta ST	73	Daniel Holten	GBR	NOR 2	BEL	GER	ITA						17th	15
			77	Andrew Jordan	GBR 4	NOR	BEL	GER	ITA						19th	13
			111	Richard Göransson	GBR	NOR	BEL	GER	ITA 4						19th	13
			125	Gigi Galli	GBR	NOR	BEL	GER	ITA 5						22nd	12

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

Supercar

Year	Entrant	Car	No.	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	WRX	Points	Teams	Points
2014	Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta ST	13	Andreas Bakkerud	POR 2 10 + 5 + 5	GBR 1 16 + 5 + 8	NOR 12 6 + 2	FIN 2 16 + 5 + 5	SWE 2 7 + 5 + 5	BEL 30	CAN 8 11 + 3	FRA 9 9 + 3	GER 11 6 + 3	ITA 6 5 + 5 + 1	TUR 1 14 + 5 + 8	ARG 6 14 + 5 + 1		5th	193	1st	409
			15	Reinis Nitišs	POR 3 14 + 6 + 4	GBR 7 13 + 6	NOR 1 16 + 6 + 8	FIN 3 14 + 6 + 4	SWE 4 8 + 5 + 3	BEL 12 9 + 3	CAN 4 4 + 4 + 3	FRA 2 13 + 5 + 5	GER 16 1	ITA 11 7 + 2	TUR 7 12 + 3	ARG 2 15 + 6 + 5		3rd	210
			73	Daniel Holten	POR	GBR	NOR 10 9 + 2	FIN	SWE 9 12 + 1	BEL	CAN	FRA	GER	ITA	TUR	ARG		20th	22	N/A	N/A
			77	Andrew Jordan	POR	GBR 39 + 4 + 4	NOR	FIN	SWE	BEL	CAN	FRA	GER	ITA	TUR	ARG		25th	17
			93	Sebastian Eriksson	POR	GBR	NOR	FIN	SWE 6 13 + 6 + 1	BEL	CAN	FRA	GER	ITA	TUR	ARG		22nd	20
			94	Joni Wiman	POR	GBR	NOR	FIN	SWE	BEL	CAN 9 13	FRA	GER	ITA	TUR	ARG		31st	13
			111	Richard Göransson	POR	GBR	NOR	FIN	SWE	BEL	CAN	FRA	GER	ITA 2 8 + 4 + 5	TUR 9 8 + 1	ARG		19th	26
			125	Gigi Galli	POR	GBR	NOR	FIN	SWE	BEL	CAN	FRA	GER	ITA 12 6 + 3	TUR	ARG		35th	9
			196	Kevin Eriksson	POR	GBR	NOR	FIN	SWE	BEL	CAN	FRA	GER	ITA	TUR	ARG 3 12 + 4 + 4		22nd	20
2015	Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta ST	13	Andreas Bakkerud	POR 4	HOC 6	BEL 5	GBR 4	GER 6	SWE 3	CAN 5	NOR 11	FRA 8	BAR 10	TUR 2	ITA 1	ARG 7	4th	232	2nd	399
			15	Reinis Nitišs	POR 11	HOC 2	BEL 3	GBR 5	GER 7	SWE 5	CAN 9	NOR 9	FRA 16	BAR 9	TUR 7	ITA 9	ARG 14	7th	167
			88	Henning Solberg	POR	HOC	BEL	GBR	GER	SWE	CAN	NOR 13	FRA	BAR	TUR	ITA	ARG	25th	12	N/A	N/A
			98	Kevin Hansen	POR	HOC	BEL	GBR	GER	SWE	CAN	NOR	FRA	BAR	TUR	ITA	ARG 5	22nd	16
	Namus OMSE		42	Timur Timerzyanov	POR 10	HOC 15	BEL 13	GBR 18	GER 11	SWE 7	CAN 13	NOR 6	FRA 10	BAR 11	TUR 9	ITA 6	ARG 17	10th	105
2016	Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta ST	15	Reinis Nitišs	POR 15†	HOC 13†	BEL 12†	GBR 21†	NOR 12†	SWE 18†	CAN 13†	FRA 5†	BAR 13	LAT 11	GER	ARG 10		16th	44	6th	132
			29	Yann Le Jossec	POR	HOC	BEL	GBR	NOR	SWE	CAN	FRA 22	BAR	LAT	GER	ARG		40th	0
			68	Niclas Grönholm	POR 17	HOC 14	BEL 15	GBR 16	NOR 16	SWE 11	CAN 12	FRA 14	BAR 15	LAT 18	GER	ARG		17th	28
			96	Kevin Eriksson	POR 7	HOC 11	BEL 10	GBR 8	NOR 13	SWE 15	CAN 11	FRA	BAR 11	LAT 13	GER 1	ARG 18		11th	92
			23	Richard Göransson	POR	HOC	BEL	GBR	NOR	SWE 17	CAN	FRA	BAR	LAT	GER	ARG		26th	0	N/A	N/A
			113	Cyril Raymond	POR	HOC	BEL	GBR	NOR	SWE	CAN	FRA	BAR	LAT	GER 17	ARG		28th	0

† Points scored with other team(s).

RX Lites Cup

Year	Entrant	Car	No.	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Lites	Points
2014	Olsbergs MSE	Lites "Ford Fiesta"	11	Sebastian Eriksson	POR 1	GBR 5	FIN	SWE	ITA	TUR 1		5th	82
			13	Daniel Holten	POR 5	GBR 8	FIN 5	SWE	ITA 1	TUR 5		3rd	97
			53	Richard Göransson	POR 3	GBR 2	FIN	SWE 3	ITA	TUR		6th	73
2015	Olsbergs MSE	Lites "Ford Fiesta"	6	Tom Onslow-Cole	POR	GBR	SWE	NOR	BAR	TUR 3	ITA	14th	22
			39	Kevin Eriksson	POR 1	GBR 2	SWE 3	NOR 3	BAR 4	TUR 5	ITA 1	2nd	166
			51	Sandra Hultgren	POR 6	GBR 7	SWE 10	NOR 6	BAR	TUR	ITA	10th	55
			77	Cyril Raymond	POR	GBR	SWE	NOR	BAR 2	TUR	ITA	13th	26
			78	Austin Cindric	POR	GBR	SWE	NOR	BAR	TUR	ITA 10	19th	12
			89	Andreas Wernersson	POR	GBR	SWE 4	NOR	BAR	TUR	ITA	14th	22
			98	Oliver Eriksson	POR 7	GBR 4	SWE	NOR 8	BAR	TUR	ITA 4	7th	66
2016	Olsbergs MSE	Lites "Ford Fiesta"	13	Cyril Raymond	HOC 2	BEL 6	GBR 1	NOR 2	SWE 2	BAR 1	LAT 8	1st	175
			21	Marcus Höglund	HOC	BEL	GBR	NOR	SWE 6	BAR	LAT	12th	19
			33	Tejas Hirani	HOC 8	BEL 7	GBR 7	NOR 5	SWE 16	BAR 6	LAT 3	7th	96
			40	Dan Rooke	HOC	BEL	GBR 8	NOR	SWE	BAR	LAT	18th	13
			64	Saeed Bintouq	HOC	BEL	GBR 10	NOR 7	SWE	BAR 10	LAT	10th	33
			75	Patrick Simon	HOC 5	BEL	GBR	NOR	SWE	BAR	LAT	11th	21

Complete Global Rallycross results

AWD

Year	Entrant	Car	No	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	GRC	Points
2011	Best Buy Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta T16 4x4	3	Marcus Grönholm	IRW1 1	IRW2 1	SEA1	SEA2	PIK1 2	PIK2 1	LA1 2	LA2 3	2nd	112
			3	Andréas Eriksson	IRW1	IRW2	SEA1 1	SEA2 3	PIK1	PIK2	LA1	LA2	12th	37
	Rockstar Etnies Olsbergs MSE		34	Tanner Foust	IRW1 3	IRW2 2	SEA1 2	SEA2 1	PIK1 1	PIK2 6	LA1 4	LA2 2	1st	134
	Rockstar Metal Mulisha Olsbergs MSE		38	Brian Deegan	IRW1	IRW2	SEA1	SEA2	PIK1 3	PIK2 8	LA1 10	LA2 1	9th	54
	Westmatic Olsbergs MSE		99	Pontus Tidemand	IRW1 4	IRW2 5	SEA1	SEA2	PIK1	PIK2	LA1	LA2	15th	25

Supercar

Year	Entrant	Car	No	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	GRC	Points
2012	Best Buy Mobile Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta T16 4x4	3	Marcus Grönholm	CHA 1	TEX 1	LA	LOU	LV	LVC							7th	43
			3	Andréas Eriksson	CHA	TEX	LA	LOU	LV 9	LVC							21st	8
			3	Timur Timerzyanov	CHA	TEX	LA	LOU	LV	LVC 9							20th	8
	Best Buy Serve Olsbergs MSE		17	David Binks	CHA 7	TEX 5	LA 8	LOU 8	LV 13	LVC DNS							8th	42
	Rockstar Etnies Olsbergs MSE		34	Tanner Foust	CHA 2	TEX 2	LA 6	LOU 4	LV 1	LVC 1							1st	94
	Rockstar Metal Mulisha Olsbergs MSE		38	Brian Deegan	CHA 16	TEX 3	LA 3	LOU 3	LV 2	LVC 2							2nd	84
	Bluebeam Olsbergs MSE		57	Toomas Heikkinen	CHA 10	TEX 18	LA	LOU	LV 4	LVC 5							14th	33
2013	Kobalt Tools Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta ST	18	Patrik Sandell	BRA 3	MUN1 8	MUN2 13	LOU 2	BRI 5	IRW 8	ATL 11	CHA 13	LV 7				6th	89
	Rockstar Energy Olsbergs MSE		34	Tanner Foust	BRA 8	MUN1 6	MUN2 3	LOU 4	BRI 7	IRW 2	ATL 2	CHA 10	LV 2				2nd	123
	Rockstar Energy Metal Mulisha Olsbergs MSE		38	Brian Deegan	BRA 5	MUN1 7	MUN2 9	LOU 3	BRI 3	IRW 7	ATL 6	CHA 2	LV 13				4th	106
	Bluebeam Olsbergs MSE		57	Toomas Heikkinen	BRA 2	MUN1 3	MUN2 1	LOU 1	BRI 5	IRW 8	ATL 11	CHA 3	LV 4				1st	169
	Royal Purple OMSE2		7	Townsend Bell	BRA	MUN1 12	MUN2 6	LOU	BRI	IRW	ATL	CHA	LV				20th	16
			32	Steve Arpin	BRA 4	MUN1 11	MUN2 5	LOU 12	BRI 6	IRW 14	ATL 9	CHA 5	LV 8				8th	79
	Rdio OMSE2		77	Scott Speed	BRA 1	MUN1 9	MUN2 15	LOU 9	BRI 13	IRW 9	ATL 7	CHA 1	LV 9				5th	94
2014	Red Bull Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta ST	31	Joni Wiman	BAR 5	AUS 17	DC 3	NY 4	CHA 4	DAY 7	LA1 2	LA2 3	SEA 2	LV 2			1st	381
			48	Ricky Johnson	BAR	AUS 9	DC	NY	CHA	DAY	LA1	LA2	SEA	LV			-	0
	Kobalt Tools Olsbergs MSE		18	Patrik Sandell	BAR 8	AUS 6	DC 1	NY 10	CHA 13	DAY 4	LA1 5	LA2 7	SEA 7	LV 10,			6th	246
	OMSE2		00	Steve Arpin	BAR 2	AUS 10	DC 4	NY 5	CHA 7	DAY 12	LA1 7	LA2 12	SEA 11	LV 8			7th	224
2015	Red Bull Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta ST	31	Joni Wiman	FTA 12	DAY1 4	DAY2 8	MCAS 8	DET1 5	DET2 4	DC 10	LA1 9	LA2 8	BAR1 3	BAR2 5	LV 1	5th	370
			93	Sebastian Eriksson	FTA 4	DAY1 3	DAY2 1	MCAS 9	DET1 3	DET2 3	DC 6	LA1 13	LA2 7	BAR1 4	BAR2 7	LV 2	2nd	400
2016	Honda Red Bull OMSE	Honda Civic Coupe	31	Joni Wiman	PHO1 6	PHO2 10	DAL 5	DAY1 4	DAY2 4	MCAS1 7	MCAS2	DC 5	AC 12	SEA 3	LA1 11	LA2 5	6th	342
			93	Sebastian Eriksson	PHO1 9	PHO2 3	DAL 10	DAY1 3	DAY2 3	MCAS1 6	MCAS2	DC 10	AC 6	SEA 2	LA1 9	LA2 12	7th	341
			96	Kevin Eriksson	PHO1	PHO2	DAL	DAY1	DAY2	MCAS1	MCAS2	DC	AC 13	SEA	LA1	LA2	18th	4

Race cancelled.

GRC Lites

Year	Entrant	Car	No.	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Lites	Points
2013	Olsbergs MSE	Lites "Ford Fiesta"	4	Halid Avdagiç	LOU 7	BRI 8	IRW 7	ATL	CHA	LV							9th	29
			15	Reinis Nitišs	LOU	BRI	IRW 5	ATL 6	CHA	LV							10th	23
			15	Eric Färén	LOU	BRI	IRW	ATL	CHA	LV 2							12th	18
			24	Mitchell DeJong	LOU 4	BRI 9	IRW 2	ATL 2	CHA 4	LV 5							3rd	81
			35	Brent Lee	LOU	BRI	IRW	ATL	CHA	LV 9							13th	8
			37	Sebastian Eriksson	LOU 2	BRI 5	IRW 3	ATL 3	CHA 3	LV 3							2nd	93
			60	Tyler Benson	LOU	BRI	IRW	ATL 10	CHA 9	LV 10							11th	22
			65	Geoff Sykes	LOU 8	BRI 4	IRW 9	ATL 7	CHA 2	LV 8							7th	66
2014	Olsbergs MSE	Lites "Ford Fiesta"	13	Andreas Bakkerud	AUS	DC	NY	CHA	DAY	LA1	LA2	SEA	LV 2				11th	51
			16	Oliver Eriksson	AUS	DC	NY 4	CHA 3	DAY	LA1	LA2	SEA	LV 6				7th	110
			24	Mitchell DeJong	AUS 1	DC 1	NY 2	CHA 1	DAY 1	LA1 2	LA2 1	SEA 1	LV 1				1st	489
			51	Átila Abreu	AUS 5	DC 4	NY	CHA	DAY	LA1	LA2	SEA	LV				10th	72
			96	Kevin Eriksson	AUS 2	DC 2	NY 1	CHA 2	DAY	LA1 1	LA2 2	SEA	LV 8				2nd	331
			126	Alejandro Fernández	AUS 7	DC 6	NY 6	CHA 4	DAY 2	LA1 7	LA2 3	SEA 3	LV 5				3rd	206
2015	Olsbergs MSE	Lites "Ford Fiesta"	16	Oliver Eriksson	FTA 3	DAY1 1	DAY2 10	MCAS 2	DET1 5	DET2 7	DC 6	LA1 1	LA2 3	BAR1 1	BAR2 2	LV 3	1st	501
			28	Gustavo Menezes	FTA	DAY1	DAY2	MCAS	DET1	DET2	DC	LA1	LA2	BAR1	BAR2	LV 9	20th	11
			51	Sandra Hultgren	FTA	DAY1	DAY2	MCAS	DET1	DET2	DC	LA1	LA2	BAR1	BAR2	LV 11	22nd	2
			77	Austin Cindric	FTA 1	DAY1 9	DAY2 1	MCAS 5	DET1 3	DET2 3	DC 8	LA1 2	LA2 1	BAR1 2	BAR2 1	LV 10	2nd	473
			89	Andreas Wernersson	FTA	DAY1	DAY2	MCAS	DET1	DET2	DC	LA1	LA2	BAR1	BAR2	LV 2	14th	48
			99	Joachim Hvaal	FTA	DAY1	DAY2	MCAS	DET1	DET2	DC 5	LA1	LA2	BAR1	BAR2	LV	17th	32
2016	Olsbergs MSE X Forces	Lites "Ford Fiesta"	13	Oliver Eriksson	PHO1 10	PHO2 6	DAL 1	DAY1 1	DAY2 2	MCAS1 10	MCAS2	DC 2	AC 4	SEA 2	LA1 8	LA2 4	2nd	447
			45	Miki Weckström	PHO1 1	PHO2 3	DAL 10	DAY1 10	DAY2 3	MCAS1 1	MCAS2	DC 3	AC 7	SEA 3	LA1 2	LA2 9	3rd	419
			51	Sandra Hultgren	PHO1	PHO2	DAL	DAY1	DAY2	MCAS1	MCAS2	DC 8	AC 8	SEA	LA1	LA2	19th	36
			53	Cole Keatts	PHO1 13	PHO2 11	DAL 13	DAY1 12	DAY2 15	MCAS1 12	MCAS2	DC 11	AC 11	SEA 5	LA1 13	LA2 12	17th	51

Race cancelled.

References

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