Johan Kristoffersson

Not to be confused with the skier Johan Kristoffersen.

Johan David Kristoffersson (born 6 December 1988) is a Swedish racecar driver. He is a six time World Rallycross Champion having won the FIA World Rallycross Championship in 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. In 2018 he won a record breaking 11 out of 12 events in the championship. He is the son of former racing driver and Kristoffersson Motorsport (KMS) team owner Tommy Kristoffersson. He also won the Superstars Series championship in 2012, the same year in which he claimed the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship and Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia titles.

Johan Kristoffersson
Johan Kristoffersson in July, 2021
Nationality	Swedish
Born	(1988-12-06) 6 December 1988 (age 35) Arvika, Sweden
Related to	Tommy Kristoffersson (father)
FIA World Rallycross Championship career
Debut season	2014
Current team	Kristoffersson Motorsport
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Car number	1
Spotter	Tommy Kristoffersson
Former teams	Volkswagen RX Sweden, PSRX Volkswagen Sweden, KYB EKS JC
Starts	93
Championships	6 (2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Wins	44
Podiums	59
Current team	Kristoffersson Motorsport
FIA ERX Supercar Championship
Years active	2013–2014, 2022
Car number	3
Former teams	Volkswagen Dealer Team KMS
Starts	5
Wins	1
Podiums	2
Best finish	8th in 2014 (Supercar)
Previous series
2011 2011–12 2011–12 2009–2010 2008	Porsche Carrera Cup Germany STCC Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia STCC (Sweden) JTCC (Sweden)
Championship titles
2021, 2023 2017-18, 2020-21-22 2012, 2018 2012 2012-13, 2015	Extreme E FIA World Rallycross STCC Superstars Series Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia

Racing career

Early career

Kristoffersson competed for his father's team in Junior Touring Car Championship in 2008. He finished fourth in the championship, after winning two races during the season, in a Volkswagen. KMS also competed in the Swedish Touring Car Championship, which he had to move up to the year 2009. He did not take any points in the main series, but finished second behind Viktor Hallrup in the Semcon Cup, a private preparatory cup. During the 2010 season Kristoffersson drove for Team Biogas.se for three race weekends.

Touring Cars

Kristoffersson's breakthrough came in the 2011 season. It was to the races on the Falkenbergs Motorbana that he got to drive a third car for Team Biogas.se in Scandinavian Touring Car Championship. He was high up there, but had to retire both races. He then picked three fourth places in the four subsequent races, before he took a third place in the second race on the Ring Knutstorp. He then took another third place at Mantorp Park and finished the season in tenth place overall, despite the fact that he only drove just over half the season.

In 2011 Kristoffersson also drove in the Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, where he fought for the title with Robin Rudholm. During the last race weekend, he had a good chance at the title, but lost it after receiving a penalty for a false start in the first race. Kristofferson won the second race, but still could not win the championship, then Rudholm finished second and had too big a lead in the overall driver's championship.

During the 2012 season, Kristoffersson competed in the Italian-based Touring Car Championship, Superstars Series, for Kristoffersson Motorsport under the name Audi Sport KMS.^[1] He took five titles in a single year – winning Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, STCC and Superstars Series in all three categories (Italian, International and Rookie).

Kristoffersson joined the Petri Corse team for the 2013 Superstars Series season where he drove a Porsche Panamera.^[2]

Also in 2013, the Swede drove a family-run Volkswagen Scirocco at a European Rallycross Championship round.

On 20 December 2018, it was announced that Kristofferson will join Volkswagen for the 2019 World Touring Car Cup season, partnering team's regulars Mehdi Bennani and Rob Huff.^[3]

Rally and Rallycross

In 2014 he raced part-time at the FIA World Rallycross Championship with a Kristofferson Volkswagen Polo, finishing third at Belgium. In 2015, he won at Portugal and claimed podiums at UK, Spain, Turkey and Italy, finishing third in the standings.

In 2016, KMS and Marklund merged their Volkswagen factory teams, with Kristoffersson driving a Polo. He claimed a win, three podiums and nine top six finishes, and was runner-up in the Supercars overall standings behind Mattias Ekström.

Kristoffersson at the 2020 Rally Sweden

In 2019 Kristofferson would also make the switch over to rallying, running a full-time campaign with Volkswagen in the Swedish Rally Championship with his WRX team Kristoffersson Motorsport, using the Volkswagen Polo GTI R5.

He won the 2018 WRX title with a record-breaking 11 out of 12 event wins during the season.^[4]

FIA World RX of Portugal 2017 in Montalegre

He won the 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022 FIA World Rallycross Championship, making him a 5 Time World Champion.

He participated in the 2022 FIA World Rallycross Championship and 2023 FIA World Rallycross Championship in a Kristoffersson Motorsport run Electric Volkswagen.^[5]

Extreme E

Kristofferson joined Rosberg X Racing in Extreme E for its inaugural season and drove alongside Australian Molly Taylor.^[6] They Won the Championship even though Team X44's drivers 9X World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb and Spanish driver Cristina Gutiérrez finished level on points with them, as RXR had 3 Wins to X44's 1 Win.^[7]

He re signed with RXR for the 2022 Extreme E Championship and will drive for them alongside fellow Swede Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky.^[8] They won the first round of the season in Neom, Saudi Arabia.^[9]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2009	Swedish Touring Car Championship	Kristoffersson Motorsport	18	0	0	0	0	0	18th
2010	Swedish Touring Car Championship	Team Biogas.se	6	0	0	0	0	3	15th
2011	Scandinavian Touring Car Championship	Biogas.se	10	0	0	0	2	84	10th
2012	International Superstars Series	Audi Sport KMS	16	4	2	3	7	185	1st
	Scandinavian Touring Car Championship	Volkswagen Team Biogas	16	5	2	1	11	264	1st
2013	European Rallycross Championship	Volkswagen Dealer Team KMS	1	0	N/A	N/A	0	11	28th
	International Superstars Series	Petri Corse	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2014	European Rallycross Championship	Volkswagen Dealer Team KMS	3	1	N/A	N/A	2	30	8th
	FIA World Rallycross Championship		4	0	N/A	N/A	0	33	15th
2015	FIA World Rallycross Championship	Volkswagen Team Sweden	13	1	N/A	N/A	5	234	3rd
2016	FIA World Rallycross Championship	Volkswagen RX Sweden	12	1	N/A	N/A	3	240	2nd
	Scandinavian Touring Car Championship	PWR Racing - SEAT Dealer Team	12	2	2	2	5	243	3rd
	World Rally Championship	Johan Kristoffersson	1	0	N/A	N/A	0	0	NC
2017	FIA World Rallycross Championship	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	12	7	N/A	N/A	10	316	1st
	TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship	Volkswagen Dealer Team Sweden	12	6	7	6	8	217	4th
2018	FIA World Rallycross Championship	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	12	11	N/A	N/A	11	341	1st
	TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship	Kristoffersson Motorsport	12	3	1	3	7	195	1st
	World Rally Championship	Johan Kristoffersson	1	0	N/A	N/A	0	0	NC
2019	World Rally Championship-2	Volkswagen Dealer Team Bauhaus	2	0	N/A	N/A	2	30	14th
	World Touring Car Cup	SLR Volkswagen	30	3	1	2	5	243	5th
2020	FIA World Rallycross Championship	Volkswagen Dealerteam BAUHAUS	8	4	N/A	N/A	7	219	1st
	World Rally Championship-3	Kristoffersson Motorsport	1	0	N/A	N/A	1	15	13th
2021	Extreme E Championship	Rosberg X Racing	10	3	N/A	N/A	8	133	1st
	FIA World Rallycross Championship	KYB EKS JC	9	3	N/A	N/A	5	217	1st
	World Rally Championship-3	Kristoffersson Motorsport	1	0	N/A	N/A	0	5	50th
2022	Extreme E Championship	Rosberg X Racing	5	2	N/A	N/A	2	68	2nd
	FIA European Rallycross Championship	Kristoffersson Motorsport	1	0	N/A	N/A	0	12	16th
	FIA World Rallycross Championship		10	8	N/A	N/A	8	183	1st
	24H GT Series - 992	HRT Performance
2023	Extreme E Championship	Rosberg X Racing	10	3	N/A	N/A	7	159	1st
	FIA World Rallycross Championship	Volkswagen Dealerteam BAUHAUS	7	5	N/A	N/A	6	141	1st
2024	Extreme E Championship	Rosberg X Racing
	Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie - TCR	MSC Sinzig e.V. im ADAC
	24 Hours of Nürburgring - AT3	Max Kruse Racing

^† Non-championship event.
^* Season still in progress.

Complete Swedish Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	Points
2009	Kristoffersson Motorsport	Audi A4	MAN 1 10	MAN 2 12	KAR 1 12	KAR 2 13	GÖT 1 Ret	GÖT 2 DNS	KNU 1 14	KNU 2 15	FAL 1 10	FAL 2 10	KAR 1 11	KAR 2 11	VAL 1 Ret	VAL 2 16	KNU 1 Ret	KNU 2 10	MAN 1 12	MAN 2 10	18th	0
2010	Team Biogas.se	Volkswagen Scirocco	JYL 1	JYL 2	KNU 1	KNU 2	KAR 1	KAR 2	GÖT 1	GÖT 2	FAL 1	FAL 2	KAR 1	KAR 2	JYL 1 15	JYL 2 15	KNU 1 10	KNU 2 13	MAN 1 15	MAN 2 11	15th	3

Complete Scandinavian Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	DC	Points
2011	Biogas.se	Volkswagen Scirocco	JYL 1	JYL 2	KNU 1	KNU 2	MAN 1	MAN 2	GÖT 1	GÖT 2	FAL 1 Ret	FAL 2 Ret	KAR 1 4	KAR 2 7	JYL 1 4	JYL 2 4	KNU 1 5	KNU 2 3	MAN 1 3	MAN 2 9				10th	84
2012	Volkswagen Team Biogas	Volkswagen Scirocco	MAN 1 1	MAN 2 1	KNU 1 2	KNU 2 3	STU 1 6	STU 2 2	MAN 1 1	MAN 2 4	ÖST 1 2	ÖST 2 6	JYL 1 3	JYL 2 3	KNU 1 4	KNU 2 Ret	SOL 1 1	SOL 2 1						1st	264
2016	PWR Racing - SEAT Dealer Team	SEAT León STCC	SKÖ 1 4	SKÖ 2 5	MAN 1 3	MAN 2 Ret	AND 1 1	AND 2 3	FAL 1 2	FAL 2 5	KAR 1 EX	KAR 2 EX	SOL 1	SOL 2	KNU 1 1	KNU 2 6								3rd	243
2017	Volkswagen Dealer Team Sweden	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	KNU 1	KNU 2	KNU 3	ALA 1 1	ALA 2 1	ALA 3 1	SOL 1 1	SOL 2 1	SOL 3 2	FAL 1 2	FAL 2 4	FAL 3 1	KAR 1 Ret	KAR 2 DNS	KAR 3 DNS	AND 1	AND 2	AND 3	MAN 1	MAN 2	MAN 3	4th	217
2018	Kristoffersson Motorsport	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	KNU 1 4	KNU 2 3	AND 1 5	AND 2 5	FAL 1 2	FAL 2 16	KAR 1 3	KAR 2 3	RUD 1 1	RUD 2 1	MAN 1 1	MAN 2 5										1st	195

Complete International Superstars Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	DC	Points
2012	Audi Sport KMS	Audi RS5	MNZ 1 5	MNZ 2 Ret	IMO 1 1	IMO 2 1	DON 1 2	DON 2 2	MUG 1 4	MUG 2 7	HUN 1 5	HUN 2 Ret	SPA 1 2	SPA 2 Ret	VAL 1 1	VAL 2 1	PER 1 5	PER 2 Ret	1st	185
2013	Petri Corse	Porsche Panamera S	MNZ 1 DNS	MNZ 2 DNS	BRN 1	BRN 2	SVK 1	SVK 2	ZOL 1	ZOL 2	ALG 1	ALG 2	DON 1	DON 2	IMO 1	IMO 2	VAL 1	VAL 2	NC	0

Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results

(key)

Supercar/RX1

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	ERX	Points
2013	Volkswagen Dealer Team KMS	Volkswagen Scirocco	GBR	POR	HUN	FIN	NOR	SWE 10	FRA	AUT	GER	28th	11
2014	Volkswagen Dealer Team KMS	Volkswagen Polo	GBR	NOR	BEL DSQ	GER 3	ITA 1					8th	30
2022	Kristoffersson Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo	HUN	SWE 4	NOR	LAT	PRT	BEL	GER			16th	12

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

(key)

Supercar/RX1/RX1e

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	WRX	Points
2014	Volkswagen Dealer Team KMS	Volkswagen Polo	POR	GBR	NOR	FIN	SWE 20	BEL DSQ	CAN	FRA	GER 8	ITA 5	TUR	ARG		15th	33
2015	Volkswagen Team Sweden	Volkswagen Polo	POR 1	HOC 8	BEL 7	GBR 3	GER 4	SWE 7	CAN 11	NOR 10	FRA 4	BAR 2	TUR 3	ITA 2	ARG 13	3rd	234
2016	Volkswagen RX Sweden	Volkswagen Polo	POR 6	HOC 7	BEL 6	GBR 12	NOR 7	SWE 5	CAN 3	FRA 1	BAR 6	LAT 5	GER 6	ARG 2		2nd	240
2017	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	Volkswagen Polo GTI	BAR 6	POR 3	HOC 2	BEL 1	GBR 2	NOR 1	SWE 1	CAN 1	FRA 1	LAT 1	GER 7	RSA 1		1st	316
2018	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	Volkswagen Polo R	BAR 1	POR 1	BEL 5	GBR 1	NOR 1	SWE 1	CAN 1	FRA 1	LAT 1	USA 1	GER 1	RSA 1		1st	341
2020	Volkswagen Dealerteam BAUHAUS	Volkswagen Polo GTI	SWE 1	SWE 3	FIN 1	FIN 4	LAT 1	LAT 2	ESP 2	ESP 1						1st	219
2021	KYB EKS JC	Audi S1	ESP 3	SWE 7	FRA 7	LAT 5	LAT 1	BNL 1	POR 6	GER 1	GER 3					1st	217
2022	Kristoffersson Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo RX1e	NOR 1	LAT 1	LAT 1	POR 1	POR 5	BNL 1	BNL 1	ESP 4	ESP 1	GER 1				1st	183
2023	Volkswagen Dealerteam BAUHAUS	Volkswagen Polo RX1e	POR 1	NOR 1	SWE 1	GBR C	BNL C	GER C								1st	141
		OMSE ZEROID X1							RSA 1	RSA 3	CHN 6	CHN 1
2024	KMS - HORSE Powertrain	Volkswagen Polo KMS 601 RX	SWE 1	SWE 1	HUN 5	HUN 1	BNL 4	BNL 1	PRT	PRT	CHN	CHN				1st*	153*

^* Season still in progress.

Complete WRC results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2016	Johan Kristoffersson	Škoda Fabia S2000	MON	SWE 21	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	CHN	FRA	ESP	GBR	AUS	NC	0
2018	Johan Kristoffersson	Škoda Fabia R5	MON	SWE 17	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR	ITA	FIN	GER	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS		NC	0
2019	Volkswagen Dealerteam Bauhaus	Volkswagen Polo GTI R5	MON	SWE 13	MEX	FRA	ARG	CHL	POR	ITA	FIN 12	GER	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS C	NC	0
2020	Kristoffersson Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo GTI R5	MON	SWE 14	MEX	EST	TUR	ITA	MNZ								NC	0
2021	Kristoffersson Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo GTI R5	MON	ARC 27	CRO	POR	ITA	KEN	EST	BEL	GRE	FIN	ESP	MNZ			NC	0

* Season still in progress.

WRC-2 Results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2019	Volkswagen Dealerteam Bauhaus	Volkswagen Polo GTI R5	MON	SWE 3	MEX	FRA	ARG	CHL	POR	ITA	FIN 3	GER	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS C	14th	30

WRC-3 Results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Points
2020	Kristoffersson Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo GTI R5	MON	SWE 3	MEX	EST	TUR	ITA	MNZ						13th	15
2021	Kristoffersson Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo GTI R5	MON	ARC 10	CRO	POR	ITA	KEN	EST	BEL	GRE	FIN	ESP	MNZ	50th	5

* Season still in progress.

Complete World Touring Car Cup results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	DC	Pts
2019	SLR Volkswagen	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	MAR 1 Ret	MAR 2 17	MAR 3 17	HUN 1 8	HUN 2 Ret	HUN 3 22	SVK 1 20	SVK 2 15	SVK 3 18	NED 1 4	NED 2 3	NED 3 7	GER 1 10	GER 2 1	GER 3 Ret	POR 1 7	POR 2 14	POR 3 10	CHN 1 8	CHN 2 12	CHN 3 10	JPN 1 5	JPN 2 7	JPN 3 1	MAC 1 11	MAC 2 5	MAC 3 4	MAL 1 8	MAL 2 3	MAL 3 1	5th	243

Complete Extreme E results

(key)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pos.	Points
2021	Rosberg X Racing	Spark ODYSSEY 21	DES Q 3	DES R 1	OCE Q 2	OCE R 1	ARC Q 3	ARC R 5	ISL Q 2	ISL R 1	JUR Q 2	JUR R 4	1st	133
2022	Rosberg X Racing	Spark ODYSSEY 21	DES 1	ISL1 5	ISL2 1	COP 6	ENE 10						2nd	68
2023	Rosberg X Racing	Spark ODYSSEY 21	DES 1 3	DES 2 3	HYD 1 5	HYD 2 5	ISL1 1 1	ISL1 2 1	ISL2 1 4	ISL2 2 2	COP 1 1	COP 2 2	1st	159
2024	Rosberg X Racing	Spark ODYSSEY 21	DES 1 1	DES 2 4	HYD 1 4	HYD 2 4	ISL1 1	ISL1 2	ISL2 1	ISL2 2	VAL 1	VAL 2	3rd*	67*

^* Season still in progress.

References

1. "Three Audi RS5s for Morbidelli, Kristofferson and Schöffler". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. 21 February 2012. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012.
2. "Johan Kristoffersson joins Petri Corse to drive Porsche Panamera". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. 27 March 2013. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
3. "Johan Kristoffersson confirmed alongside Rob Huff and Mehdi Bennani at SLR". Touringcartimes.com. Touringcartimes.com. 20 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
4. "2018 World RX Champion Kristoffersson Wins Season Finale". Monster Energy. 2018-11-26.
5. Cobb, Haydn (2022-01-13). "Kristoffersson to defend his World Rallycross title with Volkswagen". Motorsport.com.
6. "Rosberg X Racing - Teams - Extreme E - The Electric Odyssey". Extreme E. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
7. Kew, Matt (2021-12-19). "Rosberg team seals Extreme E title on countback in Jurassic X-Prix". Motorsport.com.
8. Hansford, Rob (2022-02-04). "TAYLOR REPLACED BY AHLIN-KOTTULINSKY AT EXTREME E CHAMPION TEAM". DirtFish Rally.
9. "RXR win the opening X Prix of Extreme E Season 2". Extreme E - The Electric Odyssey. Retrieved 2022-02-22.

External links

Media related to Johan Kristoffersson at Wikimedia Commons

• Johan Kristoffersson career summary at DriverDB.com
• John Christopher's blog on kms-racing.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Rickard Rydell	Scandinavian Touring Car Championship Champion 2012	Succeeded by Thed Björk
Preceded by Alberto Cerqui	Campionato Italiano Superstars Champion 2012	Succeeded by Gianni Morbidelli
Preceded by Andrea Bertolini	International Superstars Series Champion 2012	Succeeded by Gianni Morbidelli
Preceded by Robin Rudholm	Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia Champion 2012-2013	Succeeded by Oscar Palm
Preceded by Oscar Palm	Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia Champion 2015	Succeeded by Fredrik Larsson
Preceded by Mattias Ekström	World Rallycross Champion 2017-2018	Succeeded by Timmy Hansen
Preceded by Robert Dahlgren	TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship Champion 2018	Succeeded by Robert Dahlgren
Preceded by René Rast Timo Bernhard	Race of Champions Nations' Cup 2019 With: Tom Kristensen	Succeeded by Petter Solberg Oliver Solberg
Preceded by Timmy Hansen	World Rallycross Champion 2020-2022	Succeeded by Incumbent