Fredric Aasbø, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Fredric Aasbø

Norwegian racing driver

Date of Birth: 18-Aug-1985

Place of Birth: Ski, Akershus, Norway

Profession: racing automobile driver

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Fredric Aasbø

  • Fredric Aasbø (born 18 August 1985) is a professional drifter and stunt driver originally from Ski, Norway.
  • He now competes in the Formula Drift Championship.
  • In 2015, he became the Formula Drift World Champion.
  • He also holds claim to the most wins of any driver in series history (as of April, 2019).
  • He finished runner-up in the 2016, 2017 and 2018 championship chases. Aasbø won the 2007 and 2008 Nordic Drifting Championship titles as a privateer competing in his native Scandinavia before making his U.S.
  • debut at a global drifting invitational in 2008.
  • In 2010, he ran his first full season of U.S.
  • competition and won the Formula Drift 'Rookie of the Year' award.
  • In 2014, he won the Formula Drift Asia title, and finished runner-up in the U.S.
  • Formula Drift Pro Championship.
  • He scored the Formula Drift Pro Championship title in 2015 with a record of four wins in seven rounds, as well as the Formula Drift World Championship.
  • The same year, he was also awarded the FIA's Driver of the Year for Norway – an honor he accepted from Norwegian World Rally Champion Petter Solberg.After starting his career as a privateer racer in a Toyota Supra, he joined the Papadakis Racing squad in 2010 as a replacement for driver Tanner Foust (who had announced his departure from drifting).
  • In 2012, he won the "Pro" category of the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race.
  • In the past two years, he has debuted two different Toyota hatchbacks in the Formula Drift series.
  • In 2018, Papadakis Racing introduced the Rockstar Energy Drink / Nexen Tire Toyota Corolla Hatchback.
  • A year earlier, they finished second in the championship in a similar liveried Toyota IM.
  • From 2010 to 2016, he drove a Scion tC in the United States and, currently races a Toyota GT86 in Europe.He is also a stunt driver whose work has most notably been featured in the Norwegian action film Børning.His girlfriend Hunter Taylor is now a rookie drifter as well.

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