Mikaela thulin
Mikaela Thulin. Part of this story. Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky has a long and impressive career in motorsport. Long gone is the kid who stayed in the car instead of watching car racing. Behind the wheel for a project up in Luleå in Mikaela was helping Kjeld Nuis to break the speed record on ice skates. Mikaela worked as a driving instructor in Åre and is used to icy conditions. Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky has made history with her driving multiple times.
Focus mode activated in the PWR racing car. Mikaela and fellow Extreme E competitors tackling Greenland's terrain. Extreme E was something brand new but Mikaela settled in right away. From touring cars to rallycross, Mikaela likes to say yes to new challenges. It's very much a team sport with important jobs behind the scenes. Team E had a very successful season finishing 1st and 3rd overall.
Mikaela tackling the RX course in Belgian Mettet where she finished 2nd. Mikaela has had a long and impressive rally career and she's far from done! Skip to Content. Watch Video 8 min.
The Extreme E overall champion has been making history for a decade in both circuit and off-road racing. But her career was never a given Written by Hanna Jonsson. Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky Swedish driver Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky keeps pushing boundaries and making history both on and off the road Sweden. View Profile. Summary 1. A telling sign of what's to come.
From touring cars to rallycross and off-road racing, for the next nine years the Swedish driver will take multiple world-first wins, at some of the most prestigious events in motorsport. Instead, it has been hard-fought with grit, determination, and a huge amount of stubbornness. As she wraps up a very successful season, becoming Extreme E Overall Champions together with teammate Johan Kristoffersson, we take a look back at her impressive and sometimes windy road to success.
Her granddad Freddy raced pretty much everything on four wheels except Formula One, winning the Paris Dakar in Her brother Fredrik? Yep, you guessed it — a rally driver.
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But then there was Mikaela. Not interested at all. She never felt like motorsport was her calling, instead she tried her hand at multiple different sports and ended up falling for dance and gymnastics. It would take until she was years old to put herself behind the wheel. Or, well, she had a go when she was 6 but it wasn't a success story. Her dad took her to the racetrack for the first time, and as Mikaela was too short to reach the pedals, he put a block on the gas and off she went.
However, also too short to reach the brake, Mikaela's first go-kart outing finished in tears, as she crashed in to a pole. Her brother also crying because it was his go-kart she'd just demolished. At 11, however, out of seemingly nowhere, she decided she was going to give it a go once more, and she never looked back.
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Throughout her teens, the young go-kart driver from Karlstad stacked up some good results. Yet becoming a race driver was never her number one goal. She wanted to become a dancer, or an engineer. And that was the plan.