Timmy Hansen

Timmy Hansen
Timmy Hansen in October 2016
Nationality	Swedish
Born	(1992-05-21) 21 May 1992 Lidköping, Sweden
Related to	Kenneth Hansen (father) Kevin Hansen (brother)
FIA World Rallycross Championship career
Debut season	2014
Current team	Team Peugeot-Hansen
Car no.	21
Starts	37
Wins	5
Podiums	18
Best finish	2nd in 2015
Finished last season	2nd

FIA European Rallycross Championship
Years active	2012-2013
Former teams	Citroën Hansen Motorsport
Starts	10
Wins	1
Podiums	4
Best finish	3rd in 2013 (Supercar)

Kenneth Timmy Hansen (born 21 May 1992) is a rallycross driver from Sweden. He currently competes in the FIA World Rallycross Championship Supercar category, driving for Team Peugeot-Hansen.^[1] His father is the 14-times European Rallycross Champion Kenneth Hansen, his mother the 1994 ERA European Cup (Group N up to 1400cc) winner Susann Hansen (née Bergvall), and his brother rallycross driver Kevin Hansen.

Hansen in action during the 2014 World RX of Great Britain.

Career start

Hansen has won the Swedish Karting Championship in 2008 and has won races in Formula BMW, Formula Renault 2.0 Alps and the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0. In April 2011 he drove his first ever rallycross event at Dreux in France with a by MTechnologies lent Citroën Xsara Supercar of Marc Laboulle, that was previously used by Davy Jeanney to claim the French 2010 championship title. In 2012 his father offered him a one-off drive in the FIA European Rallycross Championship, the Finnish ERX round at Kouvola saw him driving the 2012 X Games winning car of Sébastien Loeb to an impressive 5th place overall. After he gave up single seater racing Hansen junior started his rallycross career by taking part in the entire 2013 Euro RX series, after nine rounds finishing in 3rd place overall.

World RX

For 2014 Hansen was partnered by former European Rallycross Championship title winner Timur Timerzyanov at his father's team to enter the inaugural season of World RX.

Hansen took one win and a further three podium finishes in the 2014 FIA World Rallycross Championship season and would finish the year with 199 points and fourth place in the championship standings while Timerzyanov finished in seventh with one podium.

For the 2015 season it was announced^[2] that he would be driving alongside Davy Jeanney for the Team Peugeot-Hansen team in their new Peugeot 208 WRX. Hansen took three wins on his way to second in the championship behind Petter Solberg.

For 2016 Hansen partners with 9-time WRC champion Sébastien Loeb at Hansen Motorsport. Jeanney moved to the team's second outfit Peugeot Hansen Academy, alongside Timmy's younger brother Kevin. He won a race and collected six podiums, which putt him sixth in the overall standings.

Racing record

Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results

Supercar

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	ERX	Points
2012	Citroën Hansen Motorsport	Citroën DS3	GBR	FRA	AUT	HUN	NOR	SWE	BEL	NED	FIN 5	GER	24th	12
2013	Citroën Hansen Motorsport	Citroën DS3	GBR 3	POR 11	HUN 1	FIN 3	NOR 9	SWE 3	FRA 8	AUT 10	GER 13		3rd	145

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

Supercar

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	WRX	Points
2014	Team Peugeot-Hansen	Peugeot 208 T16	POR 8	GBR 11	NOR 6	FIN 9	SWE 11	BEL 2	CAN 7	FRA 3	GER 6	ITA 1	TUR 2	ARG 4		4th	199
2015	Team Peugeot-Hansen	Peugeot 208 WRX	POR 3	HOC 3	BEL 8	GBR 8	GER 3	SWE 2	CAN 7	NOR 1	FRA 1	BAR 3	TUR 1	ITA 7	ARG 6	2nd	275
2016	Team Peugeot-Hansen	Peugeot 208 WRX	POR 9	HOC DSQ	BEL 7	GBR 3	NOR 2	SWE 3	CAN 1	FRA 8	BAR 2	LAT 3	GER 11	ARG 13		6th	178

References

↑ http://www.rallycrossrx.com/driver/1/hansen
↑ Pettit, Vince (9 April 2015). "Team Peugeot-Hansen Announce Hansen and Jeanney for 2015 Season". theCheckeredFlag.co.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2015.

External links

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Teams and drivers competing in the 2016 FIA World Rallycross Championship

EKS RX	Hoonigan Racing Division	Larsson Jernberg Motorsport	Münnich Motorsport	Olsbergs MSE

5. Mattias Ekström 57. Toomas Heikkinen	13. Andreas Bakkerud 43. Ken Block	4. Robin Larsson	44. Timo Scheider 55. René Münnich	96. Kevin Eriksson 68. Niclas Grönholm

Petter Solberg World RX Team	Peugeot Hansen Academy	Team Peugeot-Hansen	Volkswagen RX Sweden	World RX Team Austria

1. Petter Solberg	17. Davy Jeanney 71. Kevin Hansen	9. Sébastien Loeb 21. Timmy Hansen	92. Anton Marklund 3. Johan Kristoffersson	7. Timur Timerzyanov 6. Jānis Baumanis

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