Scheider celebrated his finest season to-date
in the FIA World Rallycross Championship in 2023, racing to his breakthrough
victory with ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport following a stellar performance in
South Africa and similarly reaching the rostrum on three further occasions to
cement a career-high fourth in the overall standings.
Already voted ‘Driver of the Year’ in World RX,
the 45-year-old has now joined the likes of reigning Formula 1 World Champion
Max Verstappen, 2023 FIA World Endurance Champion Sébastien Buemi, former FIA
Formula E World Champion Pascal Wehrlein and current WRC2 championship leader
Oliver Solberg as a winner in the most recent Motorsport Aktuell awards.
In so doing, he pushed 2023 FIA World Rally
Champion Kalle Rovanperä into second place, with fellow WRC front-runner
Thierry Neuville third, multiple Dakar Rally winner and double World Rally-Raid
Champion Nasser Al-Attiyah fourth and six-time FIA World Rallycross Champion
Johan Kristoffersson rounding out a star-studded top five.
“After winning the fan vote for World Rallycross
‘Driver of the Year’, to be voted as ‘Rally Driver of the Year’ against the
world’s elite in rally sport, I’m speechless and very grateful, because the
fans are the most important people in our sport,” Scheider enthused.
“This is amazing and makes me really proud. In
my opinion, the guys from the WRC and rally world are the most talented artists
behind the wheel. Congratulations of course to all the other category winners,
too.”
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