Erik Johansson (racing driver)

Erik Martin Johansson (born 16 October 1996) is a Swedish racing driver who last competed in the China GT Championship for Fist Team AAI.

Johansson made his single-seater debut in 2012, racing in Formula Monza.^[1] In his maiden season in single-seaters, he won every race he contested to take the Formula Monza title in the series' first season.^[2] Stepping up to Formula Renault 1.6 Nordic for the following year and joining Team TIDÖ, Johansson took four wins to take the series title by three points over Martin Rump.^[3]

After sitting on the sidelines in 2014 whilst being part of the FIA Institute Young Driver Excellence Academy, Johansson joined Team Kia to race in the 2015 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship.^[4] In his only season in the series, Johansson scored a best result of fourth at Skövde and Falkenbergs Motorbana,^[5][6] to finish eighth in points despite missing the final two rounds due to economical reasons.^[7]

Johansson then spent the following three seasons mainly racing at the Nürburgring, including two appearances at the 24 Hours of Nürburgring,^[8] before winning the BMW Junior Driver Selection Program, earning him a drive in the 2019 Italian GT Championship for BMW Team Italia.^[9] Driving alongside Stefano Comandini in the Sprint championship, the pair won at Imola and Mugello as they ended the year runner-up in the GT3 standings.^[10][11] The pair were joined by Jesse Krohn in the Endurance championship, with whom they won at Monza and Vallelunga to secure runner-up honors in the overall standings.^[12][13]

The following year, Johansson switched to ADAC GT Masters, originally set to join Schubert Motorsport,^[14] but later joining MRS GT-Racing from the second round onwards alongside Jens Klingmann.^[15] Racing in the last six rounds of the season, Johansson scored a lone win at the Red Bull Ring in the series' 200th race en route to a 19th-place points finish.^[16]

Johansson remained with MRS GT-Racing for 2021, as it began fielding Porsche machinery, mainly competing in the inaugural season of Porsche Carrera Cup North America,^[17] in which he took a best result of fifth at Virginia International Raceway.^[18] During the year, Johansson also made a one-off return to ADAC GT Masters for the same team at the Sachsenring round.^[19]

Returning to the BMW stable for 2022,^[20] Johansson drove for Paul Miller Racing in the Endurance rounds of the IMSA SportsCar Championship in the GTD class,^[21] and also competed part-time in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie for BMW M Motorsport.^[22] The following year, Johansson joined the BMW factory driver roster,^[23] but only competed in the qualifying races for that year's 24 Hours of Nürburgring alongside Connor De Phillippi.^[24]

After not racing in 2024, Johansson joined Team AAI to race in the China GT Championship, winning half of the season's races en route to the series title at the end of the year.^[25] At the end of the year, Johansson competed in the Shanghai 8 Hours with ParkingPark Racing by Z.SPEED in the GT3 Pro-Am class.^[26]

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• Erik Johansson career summary at DriverDB.com