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Born March 19, 1987 (age 37) ( 1987-03-19 ) Teams Wallberg Motorsport, Mac Minarelli Swe 2006 Swedish Champion, Formula Yamaha | ||
Dick Olsson (born March 19, 1987) is a Swedish karting driver who won the Swedish Karting Championship and finished 4th in the North European Zone (NEZ) in 2006, racing Formula Yamaha.
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Career
Dick started his racing career as a Motocross racer for Tibro MK coached by his father Anders Olsson who was a successful motocross racer in the 70s and 80s.
In the late summer of 2002 Dick switched over to karting after seeing his first karting race earlier that summer. Only 4 years later, in 2006, he won the Swedish Karting Championship in the Formula Yamaha class after a very tough season with many different drivers on the podium. The same year he also finished 4th in the North European Zone (NEZ) Championship in Rudskogen, Norway, racing in the same class.
Between the 2006 and 2007 season Dick tested Formula Renault for a Danish team, but decided to continue to compete in karting for financial reasons.
In 2007 Dick raced KF2 in the Danish Karting Championship and in 2008 he switched to racing Rotax Max for Wallberg Motorsport in Sweden. That year he finished 5th in the Swedish Championship, racing in the same class.
Retirement
After his retirement in 2008, Dick became a software developer. Dick has contributed to the open source project Drupal.
Since 2015, Dick is cycling competitively in London.
In June 2014, Dick came out of retirement to compete in the Acquia DrupalCon Austin Karting Championship. He won first place in the competition.
In October 2015, Dick set the new lap record of 30.558 seconds at Arnold's Family Fun Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania, USA.
In November 2016, Dick took top place in a quad racing event in Pontypridd, Wales; besting all his co-workers.
In March 2017, Dick won the 2017 Together Towards Tomorrow track race in England.