Fast facts:
Nationality:Swedish
Date of birth:10/03/1980
Team:Suzuki World Rally Team
Co-driver:Jonas Andersson
World Titles:FIA Junior champion 2004 and 2007
WRC debut:Sweden 2002
WRC wins:0
WRC points at end of 2007:0
First WRC win:n/a
Website:www.pgandersson.se
Career highlights:
2007 FIA J-WRC Champion.
2004 FIA World Junior Champion
Career summary:
'PG' comes to the world rally championship after becoming the first driver to win the FIA's Junior championship twice, in 2007 after only competing on five of the six events. This has given him wide experience of front-wheel drive rallying, but of all the official drivers in the 2008 WRC series he has the least experience of turbocharged or four-wheel drive rallying. Nonetheless, he also comes with considerable experience of Suzuki motorsport, having driven its JWRC cars for the past four years.
Driving is in PG's blood, having started when he was 15 years old, and his father was a rally driver as well. His family home in Arjang was close to one of the classic special stages run on the Swedish Rally. And the whole business of driving is a personal experience, as the family business is building roads! He started his motorsport career in rally cross in 1995 with a Saab 99, turning to a VW Golf in 1999 in which he won 12 local rallies. He used a SEAT Ibiza Group N car in 2000 for the national Swedish championship rallies, in which on two events he won the Junior category. With Jonas Kruse as his mentor, he became Group N champion in Norway and runner-up in his native Swedish series with a Renault Clio in 2002 and on his first World rally he finished second best two-wheel driver and won the 1600cc Group N class.
He drove a Clio Super 1600 for 2003 and won his category for these cars in his national series and was invited to join the Suzuki team for 2004. Being in with a chance of the title that year, he needed to learn more about the art of rallying on asphalt roads, so he went to Italy to the Vittorio Caneva Rally School before the final round of the JWRC. He then finished second JWRC driver on that event and won the title. Two off-road retirements in 2005 did him no favours, coupled with a controversial exclusion in Turkey for an infringement when leading his category which was strongly denied. So the repeat victory in 2007 was compensation, on his last season in the Junior division.
Date of birth:10/03/1980
Team:Suzuki World Rally Team
Co-driver:Jonas Andersson
World Titles:FIA Junior champion 2004 and 2007
WRC debut:Sweden 2002
WRC wins:0
WRC points at end of 2007:0
First WRC win:n/a
Website:www.pgandersson.se
Career highlights:
2007 FIA J-WRC Champion.
2004 FIA World Junior Champion
Career summary:
'PG' comes to the world rally championship after becoming the first driver to win the FIA's Junior championship twice, in 2007 after only competing on five of the six events. This has given him wide experience of front-wheel drive rallying, but of all the official drivers in the 2008 WRC series he has the least experience of turbocharged or four-wheel drive rallying. Nonetheless, he also comes with considerable experience of Suzuki motorsport, having driven its JWRC cars for the past four years.
Driving is in PG's blood, having started when he was 15 years old, and his father was a rally driver as well. His family home in Arjang was close to one of the classic special stages run on the Swedish Rally. And the whole business of driving is a personal experience, as the family business is building roads! He started his motorsport career in rally cross in 1995 with a Saab 99, turning to a VW Golf in 1999 in which he won 12 local rallies. He used a SEAT Ibiza Group N car in 2000 for the national Swedish championship rallies, in which on two events he won the Junior category. With Jonas Kruse as his mentor, he became Group N champion in Norway and runner-up in his native Swedish series with a Renault Clio in 2002 and on his first World rally he finished second best two-wheel driver and won the 1600cc Group N class.
He drove a Clio Super 1600 for 2003 and won his category for these cars in his national series and was invited to join the Suzuki team for 2004. Being in with a chance of the title that year, he needed to learn more about the art of rallying on asphalt roads, so he went to Italy to the Vittorio Caneva Rally School before the final round of the JWRC. He then finished second JWRC driver on that event and won the title. Two off-road retirements in 2005 did him no favours, coupled with a controversial exclusion in Turkey for an infringement when leading his category which was strongly denied. So the repeat victory in 2007 was compensation, on his last season in the Junior division.
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