page_title: Pontus Tidemand
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Pontus Tidemand / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Pontus Tidemand at Rally Sweden 2020.
context_page_description: Pontus Johan Tidemand is a Swedish rally and rallycross driver. He is the 2017 WRC-2 champion and a previous M-Sport and Škoda Motorsport driver.
context_section_description: He made his World Rally Championship début in 2012, competing in the WRC Academy. He finished third in the WRC Academy championship behind winner Elfyn Evans and José Antonio Suárez. He also competed that years Rally Sweden in the Super 2000 World Rally Championship, finishing third in the SWRC class. He made his World Rally Car début at the 2013 Rally Sweden in a Ford Fiesta RS WRC.
  For 2014 he switched to rallycross, joining Mattias Ekström's new EKS RX team to drive an Audi S1 in the 2014 FIA World Rallycross Championship.
caption: Tidemand at the 2020 Rally Sweden.
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