Tommy Rustad

Tommy Rustad (born 3 September 1968) is a Norwegian racing driver. He currently drives in the FIA European Rallycross Championship and occasionally in the FIA World Rallycross Championship. He is the son of former well known Norwegian racer Ola Rustad.

Racing career

Early Rallycross Years Rustad started his motor sport career in karting before racing in the Norwegian Rallycross Championship, winning the so-called Supernasjonal title for six years in a row between 1987 and 1992. On 14 June 1992, he claimed overall victory in the Irish round of the European Rallycross Championship at Mondello Park, racing one of the two 650bhp strong Ford RS200 Group B cars of his compatriot and mentor Martin Schanche.

Single Seaters In 1993, Rustad switched to circuit racing, becoming the Swedish Formula Opel Champion in his first year. He drove in the Formula Opel Euroseries in 1994, finishing fifth in points, and finished sixth in the 1995 Eurocup Formula Renault. In 1996, he was in the Italian Formula Three Championship finishing ninth, and the Renault Spider Eurocup, finishing second in his first year, and was champion in 1997.

BTCC In 1998, Rustad got a drive in the British Touring Car Championship. He drove a Renault Laguna for the DC Cook Motorsport team in the Michelin Independents Cup, despite getting some backing from the Renault works team. With five class wins throughout the seasons, he was crowned independent champion. A sixteenth place overall finish saw him one place ahead of works Peugeot driver Tim Harvey.

STCC

Since his drive in the BTCC, Rustad has spent most of his career driving in the Swedish Touring Car Championship. He was champion in both the STCC and the Norwegian Touring Car Championship in 2000, driving a works Nissan Primera. After this, he spent a couple of seasons racing in the European Touring Car Championship, before returning to Sweden in 2003 in an Opel Astra. After another rallycross year, he returned to the STCC Opel Team in 2007. 2008 had him drive a works Volvo C30 powered by bio-ethanol for Polestar Racing. He went on to win the championship for the second time in 2009 for Polestar.

WTCC Rustad became the first Norwegian to drive in the World Touring Car Championship when his Polestar Racing team entered rounds 15 and 16 of the 2009 season at Brands Hatch. Rustad retired from both races.

Rallycross

In 2006, Rustad went back to rallycross for one year, forming a team with his compatriot Sverre Isachsen for to compete in the FIA European Championships for Rallycross Drivers where he eventually finished third overall with a Ford Focus T16 4x4.

After his retirement from tarmac racing, Rustad took the decision to return full-time to rallycross in 2013, driving a Volvo S40 Mk1 in all the rounds of the Norwegian Rallycross Championship for SuperNational cars with an engine capacity of over 2000cc. He was also seen in the two Scandinavian rounds (Norway and Sweden) of the 2013 European Rallycross Championship, driving a rented Volvo C30 SuperCar. In 2014, he participated in six of the twelve rounds of the inaugural FIA World Rallycross Championship, again racing a Volvo C30 SuperCar, but with little success. However, while finishing 27th of the final WorldRX standings only his sixth place overall in the EuroRX series was a much better result. For 2015, he was entrusted by his sponsor with a competitive VW Polo Mk5 SuperCar of the Volkswagen Team Marklund Motorsport, which he used successfully to claim his first European Rallycross title. Of the five rounds counting towards the EuroRX series Rustad won three, beating his strongest competitor Jérôme Grosset-Janin from France to second place.

Racing record

Complete British Touring Car Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded all races) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) ( signifies that driver lead feature race for at least one lap – 1 point awarded)

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 Pos Pts 1998 DC Cook Motorsport Renault Laguna THR1 THR2 SIL1 SIL2 DON1 DON2 BRH1 BRH214* OUL1 OUL2 DON1 DON2 CRO1 CRO2 SNE1 SNE2 THR1 THR2 KNO1 KNO2 BRH1 BRH2 OUL1 OUL2 16th 12 Blend 37Williams Renault SIL1 SIL2

Complete Swedish Touring Car Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete European 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 DC Pts 2002 RJN Motorsport Nissan Primera MAG1 MAG2 SIL1 SIL2 BRN1 BRN2 JAR1 JAR2 AND1 AND2 OSC1 OSC2 SPA1 SPA2 PER1 PER2 DON1 DON2 EST1 EST2 15th 2 † — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete World 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 22 23 24 DC Points 2009 Volvo Olsbergs Green Racing Volvo C30 BRA1 BRA2 MEX1 MEX2 MAR1 MAR2 FRA1 FRA2 ESP1 ESP2 CZE1 CZE2 POR1 POR2 GBR1 GBR2 GER1 GER2 ITA1 ITA2 JPN1 JPN2 MAC1 MAC2 NC† 0† † – Not eligible for points, as a guest driver.

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results (key)

Supercar Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 WRX Points 2014 HTB Racing Volvo C30 POR GBR NOR FINSWE BEL CAN FRA GER ITA TUR ARG27th14 2015 HTB Racing-Marklund Motorsport Volkswagen Polo POR HOC BEL GBR GER SWE 18th 24 All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport Audi S3 CAN NOR FRA BAR TUR ITA ARG 2016 Albatec Racing Peugeot 208 POR HOC BEL GBR NOR SWE CAN FRA BAR LAT 22nd 4 All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport SEAT Ibiza GER ARG 2018 HTB Racing-Marklund Motorsport Volkswagen Polo BAR POR BEL GBR11 NOR13 SWE CAN FRA16 LAT USA GER RSA 17th 14

Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results (key)

Division 2* Division 2 was rebranded as Division 1 in 1997.

Division 1

Supercar Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ERX Points 2013 Tommy Rustad Volvo C30 GBR POR HUN FIN NOR SWE FRA AUT GER 20th 16 2014 HTB Racing Volvo C30 GBR NOR BELGERITA 6th 39 2015 HTB Racing-Marklund Motorsport Volkswagen Polo BELGERNOR BAR ITA 1st 135 2016 Albatec-HTB Racing Peugeot 208 BEL NOR SWE BAR LAT4th94 2017 Albatec-HTB Racing Peugeot 208 BAR NOR SWE FRA LAT 5th 86