Peter Hans Sundberg (born 10 May 1976) is a Swedish car racing driver with titles in several categories. He was born and grew up in the south of

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, spending his teen years riding

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. Sundberg finished near the top of numerous

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championships, then going into

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where he won the

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in 1999. He competed in the World Cup Formula 3 races in Macau and Korea, and went on to test for the Minardi

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team at the end of that year. Afterwards he competed in Spanish F3 and Japanese F3. He competed in the

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in 2002. He was away from racing until 2005 when he entered the

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and won the title in 2007 and 2008 driving a

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GT2 for team RSV-Motorsport. In 2007 he was teamed up with

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, and in 2008 he did the first part of the season with Romero and the second part with Sergio Hernández.

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