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Personal info

Birthdate
March 21 1966 - Arvika Sweden

Residence
Columbus, Ohio, USA and Glava, Sweden

Marital Status
Married to Anita Gabrielsson

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I was born in Sweden in a town called Arvika in the province of Värmland. As often as possible, I come back here to enjoy the wilderness with its unspoiled forests, mountains and wild waters.


Welcome to my home village Glava. This is where I started to drive a car when I was six years old. First I sat on my father's lap, but when I turned eight, I was tall enough to reach the pedals myself. All winter we practiced on a frozen lake close to our home. We only had summer tires so I guess I had to learn car control the hard way. But after years of digging my car out of deep snow, even my father started to lose his patience. Luckily I had a neighbor who used to watch us and who believed that I had some talent. When I turned 13, he gave me my first car - a green Saab V4 - but believe it or not - even that one had summer tires! After one more year of practicing and saving, I proudly bought my first set of rally tires. Immediately after that, I started to compete with the older guys on the lake and on small roads during the night. I was fast from the start and that's when I decided to become a professional driver.

When I have time I still take my old Volvo out for a ride on the ice.
After a couple of years in go-karts, I wanted to move up to formula cars. However I soon realized that speed on the track is not enough. Without sponsors, you will never see the green flag. My neighbor came to my rescue again by closing a deal with a pop group called Vikingarna and a local bus company.

However, he also told me that from now on you have to fix it on your own. I remember sitting in his living room in the daytime when he was at work, going through the yellow pages calling hundreds of companies per week. Nine out of 10 said "NO, thank you" immediately. But after a while, I had scheduled some meetings and out of every 20 meetings or so, I got one positive answer. If I did not get them the first, second, third or whatever time, I tried again the next year. Soon I knew almost every marketing manager in Sweden. The problem was that very few of them knew anything about racing.

Even if it was very frustrating at times, it taught me that nothing is impossible if you try hard enough.

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