Kevin Hansen

Running under the Hansen Junior Team banner, in 2012, Hansen won the JRX Junior Rallycross Cup – on the support bill to the FIA European Rallycross Championship – which he retained in 2013. Stepping up to RX Lites in 2014, he finished runner-up in his rookie campaign before going one better in 2015 to lift the trophy. Impressively, he reached the rostrum in each of his 11 outings in the single-make series.

Shortly after, the Swede made history as the youngest driver ever to compete in a World RX event when he debuted at the highest level in the season-closing World RX of Argentina aged 17 years and 6 months – progressing through to the final in the high-calibre, 19-strong field.

In 2016, he moved up to Supercar full-time to contest Euro RX, where four wins and a runner-up finish from five starts saw him crowned champion at the first time of asking. He dovetailed that successful title bid with a partial World RX challenge – and picked up the FIA ‘Rookie of the Year’ accolade at the end of the season.

The following year, Hansen took the next step in entering every round of the World Championship as a third entry for Team Peugeot-Hansen. Piloting a Peugeot 208, he grabbed eighth place in the standings in both 2017 and 2018, advancing to the final on eight occasions.

2019 marked his breakthrough campaign in World RX, winning the Abu Dhabi season-opener and tallying four further podiums en route to third in the points table, while playing a vital role in Team Hansen MJP’s successful acquisition of the Teams’ crown.

Two more rostrum appearances in 2020 propelled the younger Hansen to fifth in the Drivers’ classification, while a second career triumph in the Catalunya curtain-raiser in 2021 – allied to six subsequent podiums – secured him fourth overall and the family-run outfit a second Teams’ title in three years. He followed that up with a trio of runner-up results in 2022 – the maiden campaign of World RX’s electric era – but disqualification over a technical infringement in the Nürburgring finale cost him a top three championship finish. 

In 2023, the Götene native produced his finest performance to-date, reaching the rostrum four times out of seven – writing his name in the record books along the way as the series’ first winner on a city-centre circuit on World RX’s Asia-Pacific debut in Hong Kong – to snare the runner-up spoils in the Drivers’ standings. 

Hansen continued to pilot a Hansen World RX Team Peugeot 208 RX1e in 2024, as the championship ushered in its new ‘Battle of Technologies’. Five late-season podiums – including a fourth career success following an epic final in Portugal – earned him second in the title chase again.