Magnus Okkenhaug

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Magnus Okkenhaug
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Age 25
Nationality Flag of Norway.svg Norwegian
Car # 26
Current Team LRL Racing Team
Championships 0
Races 8
Wins 2
Podiums 4
Finals 7
First Race 2020A Round of Daytona
First Win 2020A Round of Daytona
Last Win 2020A Round of Lånkebanen
Last Race 2020A Round of Wild West
NASA RallyCross Driver

Magnus Okkenhuaug is a Norwegian causual rallycross sim-racing driver.

Okkenhaug debuted in the sim-racing world in 2015 on PlayStation 4 with Project CARS, where he did collect multible podiums in multible GT3 Leagues. His talent got noticed when he won a RX2 Test Drive by Olsberg MSE during the World RX of Sweden in 2017 trough a DiRT 4 Time Trail competition. Okkenhaug then moved to Project CARS 2 in late 2017 to join 2 seasons of Race Space's Rallycross League, where he finished P5 in the standings in Season 1 and runner up in Saeson 2, just missing out on the title by 2 points. Quite some time passed after Season 2 until Febryary 2020, Okkenhaug decided to get out of his comfort zone to join iRacing.

In the season of 2020A Magnus Okkenhaug joined NASA rallycross with the #26 for LRL Racing Team with a Subaru Impreza WRX, and suprised everyone when he won at his debut in Daytona Beach. And followed it up 2 weeks later with another win, this time on home soil at Lånkebanen.