Pontus Johan Tidemand (born 10 December 1990) is a Swedish

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and

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driver. He is the 2017 WRC-2 champion and a previous M-Sport and

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driver. Pontus is the son of Swedish rally driver Tomas Tidemand and ex-rally co-driver Maud Solberg, nowadays the wife of Norwegian rally driver

Henning Solberg Henning Solberg (born 8 January 1973) is a Norway, Norwegian Rallying, rally and rallycross driver. Together with his female co-driver Ilka Minor, he currently competes in the World Rally Championship (WRC) with cars of M-Sport. Solberg is the o ...

Career

He made his

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début in

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, competing in the

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. He finished third in the WRC Academy championship behind winner

Elfyn Evans Elfyn Rhys Evans (born 28 December 1988) is a Welsh professional rallying, rally driver. He has competed full-time in World Rally Championship since 2014, originally for M-Sport Ford World Rally Team, M-Sport Ford and currently for Toyota Gazoo ...

and José Antonio Suárez. He also competed that years

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in the Super 2000 World Rally Championship, finishing third in the SWRC class. He made his

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début at the 2013 Rally Sweden in a

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. For 2014 he switched to rallycross, joining

Mattias Ekström Bengt Mattias Ekström (born 14 July 1978) is a racing and rally driver from Sweden. He competed in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters for Audi from 2001 until his retirement in 2018, and has been competing in the FIA World Rallycross Championship ...

's new EKS RX team to drive an

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S1 in the 2014 FIA World Rallycross Championship.

Racing record

WRC results

SWRC results

WRC Academy/JWRC results

WRC-2 results

Season still in progress.

Complete FIA European Rally Championship results

Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results

Supercar

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

Supercar

References

External links

Official WebsiteResults at ewrc-results.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tidemand, Pontus 1990 births Living people Swedish rally drivers World Rally Championship drivers FIA European Rallycross Championship drivers World Rallycross Championship drivers Global RallyCross Championship drivers Racing drivers from Värmland County Toksport WRT drivers M-Sport drivers Škoda Motorsport drivers European Rally Championship drivers People from Eda Municipality