{"id":3937,"date":"2015-12-18T09:19:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T08:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2015-12-18T09:30:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T08:30:23","slug":"felix-receives-royal-medallion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/felix-receives-royal-medallion\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix receives Royal Medallion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Felix68.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3932\" alt=\"Felix68\" src=\"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Felix68-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"785\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Felix68-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Felix68-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Felix68.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Swedish Automobile Club have today announced that Felix has been awarded the Royal Medallion of Motorprinsens medalj, one of the most prestigious accolades on offer within the Swedish motorsport society.<\/p>\n<p>Felix receives the medallion on the back of his recent Formula 3 accomplishments, which include repeat Macau Grand Prix victories in 2014-2015 as well as the FIA Formula 3 European Championship title in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Motorprinsens medalj was inaugurated in 1975 to honour the importance of Prince Bertil of Sweden to Swedish motorsport. The award jury consists of representatives from organisations such as the Royal Swedish Automobile Club and Swedish ASN the SBF. The medal is made from gold.<\/p>\n<p>Previous recipients include the likes of Bj\u00f6rn Waldeg\u00e5rd (1976-1977), Ronnie Peterson (1979), Stig Blomqvist (1983), Kenny Br\u00e4ck (2000) and Mattias Ekstr\u00f6m (2008).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The jury\u2019s motivation:<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u201dFelix Rosenqvist has got the sporting merits and, in an exceptionally successful career, has made the rise to become the world\u2019s undisputed number one Formula 3 driver. It has been our great privilege to follow Felix Rosenqvist and his phenomenal achievements. He is the unchallenged star among the contingent of drivers currently forging a new golden era in Swedish motorsport. No one combines the will to win with humility and patience better than Felix Rosenqvist, who is consequently awarded Motorprinsens medalj.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Felix:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201dIt is a great honour to receive Motorprinsens medalj. The individuals who make up the list of previous recipients are true legends of Swedish motorsport. I would like to thank the jury for their kind words, and look forward to try and bring further wins and titles to Swedish motor racing in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Motorprinsens medalj &#8211; all recipients <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1976 Bj\u00f6rn Waldeg\u00e5rd<br \/>\n1977 Bj\u00f6rn Waldeg\u00e5rd<br \/>\n1979 Ronnie Peterson (posthumous)<br \/>\n1981 Per-Inge Walfridsson<br \/>\n1982 Bertil Lundberg<br \/>\n1983 Stig Blomqvist<br \/>\n1986 Lennart Bohlin<br \/>\n1988 Lars V. Ad\u00e9n<br \/>\n1991 CG Hammarlund<br \/>\n1992 Lars \u00d6sterlind<br \/>\n1993 Bertil Klarin<br \/>\n1996 Gunnar Palm<br \/>\n1999 Rickard Rydell<br \/>\n2000 Kenny Br\u00e4ck<br \/>\n2002 Ove \u201dP\u00e5ven\u201d Andersson<br \/>\n2008 Mattias Ekstr\u00f6m<br \/>\n2009 Kenneth Hansen<br \/>\n2010 Mats Eriksson<br \/>\n2012 Tina Th\u00f6rner<br \/>\n2014 Felix Rosenqvist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Swedish Automobile Club have today announced that Felix has been awarded the Royal Medallion of Motorprinsens medalj, one of the most prestigious accolades on offer within the Swedish motorsport society. Felix receives the medallion on the back of his recent Formula 3 accomplishments, which include repeat Macau Grand Prix victories in 2014-2015 as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news3","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3944,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions\/3944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}