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James Newbold

Friday Favourite: The all-round ace with an "obsession for perfection"

Mattias Ekstrom is one of the great motorsport all-rounders of the current era, a serial winner in different cars and on different surfaces.

A lynchpin of Audi's DTM success, earning titles in 2004 and 2007, after marking himself as a star by winning his domestic Super Touring championship in 1999, the Swede has three Race of Champions wins to his name and added the World Rallycross Championship to his bulging CV in 2016. And last year he won the inaugural Pure ETCR title for Cupra after a season of consistency, seeing off Hyundai rival Jean-Karl Vernay.

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