Felix Rosenqvist

Felix Rosenqvist
Rosenqvist in 2015.
Nationality	Swedish
Born	(1991-11-07) 7 November 1991 Värnamo, Sweden
DTM career
Debut season	2016
Current team	ART Grand Prix
Car no.	88
Starts	8
Wins	0
Poles	1
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	8th in 2016
Formula E career
Debut season	2016–17
Current team	Mahindra Racing
Car no.	19
Starts	2
Championships	0
Wins	0
Poles	1
Fastest laps	1
Previous series
2012-2015 2011-12 2010 2009 2009 2008 2007–08	European Formula 3 Formula 3 Euro Series German Formula Three Formula Renault 2.0 NEZ Formula Renault 2.0 Sweden Formula Asia 2.0 Asian Formula Renault
Championship titles
2015 2009 2009 2008	European Formula 3 Championship Formula Renault 2.0 NEZ Formula Renault 2.0 Sweden Formula Asia 2.0

Felix Rosenqvist (born 7 November 1991 in Värnamo) is a Swedish racing driver who is the reigning European Formula Three Champion, having won the title in 2015 with the Italian team Prema Powerteam. He holds the record of being the only one ever winning the Macau Grand Prix (twice), Masters of Formula 3 (twice), Grand Prix de Pau and the European Formula Three Championship. He currently races in Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters for Mercedes-Benz, and in Formula E for Mahindra Racing.

Racing career

Formula Renault

Rosenqvist started his single seater career in Asia, he won the 2008 Formula Renault 2.0 Asia and 2009 Formula Renault 2.0 Sweden/NEZ titles.

German Formula 3 Championship

In 2010 he was fifth in the German Formula Three Championship with 2 victories, 8 podiums and 1 pole position. He also attended the 2010 Macau Grand Prix Formula Three where he finished on ninth after having qualified seventh in his debut with the same Swedish/British racing team Performance Racing.

European Formula 3 Championship

For 2011, he graduated to the Formula 3 Euro Series with the Mücke Motorsport team, where he finished 5th with 1 win, 10 podiums and 5 fastest laps, and won the Masters of Formula 3 in his rookie year.

In 2012 he finished third in the 2012 European Formula 3 Championship and finished second in Macau Grand Prix.

The year after he narrowly missed out on the 2013 European Formula 3 Championship title to Raffaele Marciello, however winning the Masters of Formula 3 for a second time from pole position. In Macau Grand Prix he started the race from the front row but collided with Raffaele Marciello and Pipo Derani to retire in the first lap.

In his fourth year with Mücke Motorsport, the Swede finished eighth in the 2014 European Formula 3 Championship in a disappointing campaign. He ended the year with a very welcomed win in the 2014 Macau Grand Prix from pole position ahead of teammate Lucas Auer

In 2015 he switched to Prema Powerteam, claiming the 2015 European Formula 3 Championship title with 13 victories, 24 podiums and 17 pole positions. He would also take his second consecutive victory in the 2015 Macau Grand Prix, again from pole position. His extended Formula 3 career meant that he would become the most successful Formula 3 racer of all time.

Indy Lights

In February 2016 he announced that he would compete in the 2016 Indy Lights series for Belardi Auto Racing ^[1] as he failed to bring budget for a continued programme in GP2 Series with Prema Powerteam. Rosenqvist had a reduced programme in the series, competing in only 10 of the 18 races, as he later in the season would have clashing commitments with his sportscar programme with Mercedes-Benz in Europe. He scored 3 wins in his campaign. He had a successful test in IndyCar with Chip Ganassi Racing at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, saying he would be happy to return to the American racing scene later in his career.

GT Racing

Rosenqvist joined the 2016 Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup together with french Tristan Vautier, driving a Mercedes-AMG GT3 for AKKA-ASP Team where they together scored 1 victory, 3 podiums out of the 10 races and finished 7th in the overall standings. The same duo together with Renger van der Zande lined up for the classic 2016 24 Hours of Spa where they reached 2nd place after all Mercedes-Benz cars have been given a 5 minute stop and go penalty.

DTM

Rosenqvist started off 2016 with a role as official reserve driver, having continued his long partnership with Mercedes-Benz before being promoted to a race seat with one of the cars ran by ART Grand Prix following Esteban Ocon's departure to Manor Racing in Formula One. He made an impressive debut in Moscow where he finished 10th, and scoring points in his first ever race in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.

Formula E

On 22 August 2016, it was announced that Rosenqvist would partner ex F1 driver Nick Heidfeld at the Mahindra Formula E team for the 2016–17 Formula E season.^[2]

Street circuits

Rosenqvist is known to be a street circuit specialist having won in Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Honda Indy Toronto, Grand Prix de Pau, Norisring and Macau Grand Prix twice, where he has started 7 times from the front row.

Racing record

Career summary

^* Season still in progress.

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

(key)

Complete FIA European Formula 3 Championship results

(key)

American open-wheel racing results

Indy Lights

Complete Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup results

Complete DTM results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Formula E results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

^*Season still in progress.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Felix Rosenqvist.

• Official website
• Felix Rosenqvist career summary at DriverDB.com

Mahindra Racing Formula E Team
Personnel	Anand Mahindra (founder) Dilbagh Gill (team principal) Joan Orus (team manager) S. P. Shukla
Drivers	21.  Bruno Senna 23.  Nick Heidfeld 23.  Oliver Rowland  Adam Carroll (reserve)
Former drivers	Karun Chandhok
Formula E cars	SRT 01E
Related	Carlin Motorsport