Timmy Hansen

Notwithstanding his roots, Hansen began his motorsport career in karting and single-seaters before focusing on rallycross, reaching the final on his international debut in the Finnish round of the FIA European Rallycross Championship at Kouvola in 2012.

After placing third overall in his maiden full campaign of Euro RX in 2013, he stepped up to the FIA World Rallycross Championship at the wheel of a Peugeot 208 WRX the following season and scored his and the car’s maiden success at World RX of Italy, with three further podium finishes propelling him to fourth in the title table.

A successful 2015 campaign yielded three more wins (Norway, France, Turkey) and the runner-up spot in the standings behind Petter Solberg, before Hansen was joined at Team Peugeot-Hansen by nine-time FIA World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb in 2016. The Swede won World RX of Canada that year and reached the podium in half of the events he contested, bolstering his tally with an additional four visits to the rostrum in 2017. 

Peugeot took its World RX effort in-house in 2018, utilising resources from the firm’s winning Dakar Rally programme. Hansen again partnered Loeb, now under the Team Peugeot Total banner, and picked up two podiums on his way to sixth in the championship.

His 2019 season was his most accomplished to-date, recording four victories from ten starts to secure both the Drivers’ laurels as well as the Teams’ trophy for Team Hansen MJP alongside younger brother and team-mate, Kevin. The 2020 campaign delivered another four rostrum appearances – including a win in Barcelona – en route to third in the classification, while in 2021, despite leading the way right up to the Nürburgring finale, Hansen was ultimately forced to give best to countryman Johan Kristoffersson in a dead-heat duel for the crown.

The pair reprised their battle the following season – the first of World RX’s electric era – and although unable to stop his compatriot’s march towards a fifth world championship title, the Götene native once more proved to be Kristoffersson’s closest challenger, triumphing in Catalunya and spraying podium champagne on five further occasions.

In 2023, Hansen added another rostrum result to his career CV – on home soil at Höljes – but it was an otherwise disappointing year as he could manage no better than sixth overall. He returned with the family-run Hansen World RX Team for an 11^th consecutive campaign at rallycross’ highest level in 2024, rediscovering winning ways in commanding fashion in Belgium and similarly ascending the podium in Portugal and Turkey to seal fourth in the standings as the series’ ‘Battle of Technologies’ raced into life.