Mattias Ekstrom and Emil Bergkvist of the Ford M-Sport Team during the Stage 11 of the Dakar 2025 on January 16, 2025.
Mattias Ekström poses for portrait during at tests of the new Ford Raptor T1+ for Dakar 2025, Merzougha, Morocco on September 14, 2024

Mattias
Ekström

Sweden

Sweden

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Touring Car

One of the most versatile drivers in motorsports, Mattias Ekström is a former DTM and Rallycross champion who's now a Dakar Rally podium finisher.

Date of birth

July 14, 1978

Birthplace

Falun

Age

47

Nationality

Sweden

Sweden

Career start

1999

Disciplines

Rally Raid Car

Mattias Ekström is best known as a champion of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM), having won the championship for Audi in 2004 and 2007.

During his career he has also won the Swedish Touring Car Championship and has become a regular competitor at the Race of Champions, winning it three times in Paris in 2006, London in 2007 and Beijing in 2009.