years championships birth_place teams races stagewins nationality points birth_date wins article_title name podiums
1980 & ndash ; 2002 0 Äppelbo subaru , mitsubishi , hyundai , Škoda 138 214 sweden swedish 489 13 may 1956 6 kenneth eriksson
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kenneth eriksson

kenneth eriksson -lrb- born 13 may 1956 in Äppelbo , in the kommun of vansbro -rrb- is a now retired world rally championship rally driver .
he drove for several manufacturer teams , including the subaru world rally team , mitsubishi , hyundai and Škoda .
he was the 1986 group a champion in the competition 's only year , his best performance , overshadowed by the fatalities that occurred in that season .
his finest showing in the top-tier world rally championship was third place overall for mitsubishi in 1995 .
he controversially won the swedish rally that year under pressure on the road from second-placed young team-mate tommi mäkinen , as well as winning directly ahead of the champion-elect , subaru world rally team 's colin mcrae in australia .
he then switched to subaru for the 1996 season to drive the impreza wrc alongside mcrae .
he excelled for them as a second points-scorer on the championship 's loose-surface rounds .
conversely , italian piero liatti often took on the same responsibility for asphalt rounds .
by the end of the 1997 season eriksson and regular co-driver staffan parmander had collected six individual world rally victories .
these included a famous win aboard the impreza in new zealand in 1997 , on which occasion he took advantage of the altercation with a sheep that befell long-time leader , ford 's carlos sainz .
between 1995 and 1997 , he also notched up a hat-trick of asia-pacific rally titles .
after finishing fourth on the 1998 swedish rally , eriksson was released from his contract at subaru in order to pursue a kit-car and latterly a world rally car chance with hyundai .
he was joined as factory driver of both the hyundai coupe and eventual hyundai accent wrc by fellow eventual one-time subaru driver , alister mcrae .
6th on the 2001 rally great britain marked his solitary points finish for the team , on his very last outing with them .
he then enjoyed his final season with Škoda , in 2002 , alongside female navigator tina thörner in the light of parmander 's retirement and with his team-mate in the sister octavia wrc being the young finn toni gardemeister .
eriksson departed the ` works ' world rally scene at the end of 2002 .
he has since been competing in the race to the sky hillclimb event held in cardrona valley , new zealand .
he finished second in 2005 , 2006 and 2007 .
