🇸🇪 Joel Eriksson

Joel Eriksson is a Swedish professional driver competing in Formula E for Envision Racing as a Platinum-graded endurance racing specialist. His career spans 11 seasons across single-seater, touring car and sportscar racing, with 155 starts yielding 20 wins and 45 podiums. He finished runner-up in the 2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship to Lando Norris and has won four races in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie.[1]

Eriksson began racing in ADAC Formula 4 in 2015, taking seven wins in 22 starts for Motopark. He moved to FIA Formula 3 European in 2016 and spent two seasons there, recording eight wins and 24 podiums across 56 starts in a period when the grid included Norris, George Russell and other drivers who would reach Formula 1. In that 2017 championship, he came second to Norris. He then spent two seasons in DTM with BMW Team RBM from 2018 to 2019, taking one win in 35 starts. Since 2020 he has held a Formula E seat at Envision Racing, accumulating 17 starts in that championship. Alongside his single-seater career, Eriksson has raced GT and endurance machinery; he has won four times in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie between 2019 and 2024 for Falken Motorsports and has competed in the Nürburgring 24 Hours, Bathurst 12 Hour and British GT Championship in GT3 cars.[2]

His most frequent competitors in Formula E are Maximilian Günther, an established professional with extensive single-seater experience, and Harrison Newey, a Silver-graded professional; Eriksson has typically finished ahead of Newey and raced closely with Günther. In Formula 3 European he regularly finished ahead of Russell and beat both Russell and Norris in multiple races, though Norris held the stronger record over their meetings in that championship.