2015 will see Australia launch its first National Rallycross Championship. As the world’s fastest-growing motorsport, Rallycross is an adrenaline-fuelled mix of Rally and Supercross, featuring colossal jumps, wheel-to-wheel racing and a difficult combination of surfaces. David Ridden, the Managing Director of Global Rallycross Australia, spoke excitedly about this new championship: “For drivers there is no […]
Chip Ganassi Racing Teams has announced today the formation of a two-car team in the Supercar class of Red Bull Global Rallycross series. 16-time X-Games medalist Brian Deegan will pilot the team’s No. 38 RockStar Energy Drink Ford Fiesta ST, alongside Steve Arpin in the No. 00 ENEOS Ford Fiesta ST. CGRT will join forces […]
Volkswagen Sweden are set to support two teams in the upcoming World Rallycross championship, maintaining its relationship with Marklund Motorsport while adding new team Kristofferson Motorsport to its artillery. Marklund Motorsport return for a second season with the backing of Volkswagen and will race in the specially-designed VW Polo RX cars, to be driven by […]
The eight-round Italian Rally Championship gets underway this weekend with the 38th Rally il Ciocco from 20-22 March, one of the most challenging events of the entire season. The Rally il Ciocco is held on asphalt mountain roads in Tuscany, where unpredictable weather often adds to the difficulty. Ciocco is the home event of seven-time […]
Albatec Racing has today announced that Jerôme Grosset-Janin will spearhead the team’s assault on the 2015 FIA European Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy. The 30 year-old Frenchman will drive one of the team’s two-litre 16v Peugeot 208 Supercars in all five rounds of the championship, together with his home event in Lohéac. The team […]
JRM Racing has signed leading Prodrive engineer Paul Eastman to lead its advanced engineering department as it works towards a Mini World Rallycross programme. In his previous role as head of rally engineering at Prodrive, Eastman was a key player in the design and engineering development of Prodrive’s Mini World Rally Car, which made its […]
Reigning World Rallycross champion Petter Solberg has laid down a challenge to the world’s most famous anonymous driver – BBC Top Gear’s The Stig. Top Gear presenter James May competed in a specially staged World RX round at Lydden Hill but ‘Captain Slow’ proved easy competition for Petter Solberg and company. After comfortably defeating May […]
World Rallycross (WRX) championship promoter IMG has reached an agreement with FIA and ITR to include an event in the 2015 calendar, to be held as a support race at the DTM season opener in Hockenheim.A purpose built circuit will be set in the iconic stadium area of the German track, featuring tarmac sectors, off […]
Swedish Rallycross driver Ramona Karlsson has begun a Crowdfunding campaign to allow her to compete in the FIA European Rallycross Championship with her own Supercar Team. Karlsson is looking to setup the first ever Female Supercar Team, run by herself, with the aim of competing in all five rounds of EuroRX as well as the […]
After a strong performance in its inaugural season, the Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross team is ready to challenge for this year’s driver and manufacturer titles in the Global Rallycross Championship. In 2015, the team will be on the attack with two Beetle GRC racecars, which debuted in the final races of 2014. The race cars were […]
Total television audience numbers for last year’s FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy show an increase of more than 550% in dedicated coverage (live, as-live or highlights) compared to 2013. Broadcast hours reveal a 444% increase with TV stations broadcasting 3,982 hours of World RX coverage throughout the season. A recent report […]
By Hal Ridge: Autosport Former factory World Rally Championship driver PG Andersson will race for works Volkswagen team Marklund Motorsport in the 2015 World Rallycross Championship. The announcement comes just a week after Marklund driver Anton Marklund moved to join Mattias Ekstrom at Audi squad EKS RX for this year. “Jan [Marklund, team principal] called […]
A two-car full-season entry will be fielded by ALL-INKL.com Münnich Motorsport in the 2015 FIA World Rallycross Championship. The German squad will be running two new Audi S3 RX Supercar machines. René Münnich and his team are aiming to be competitive, whilst further developing their Audi S3 package during 2015 in order to fight for […]
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Marcus Gronholm has been confirmed as one of the drivers taking part in the second round of RallyX on Ice Championship, due to take place on 13 February in Karlstad, which takes place on the same weekend as the Rally Sweden. Gronholm, who won the FIA World Rally Championship in both 2000 and 2002 as […]
By Hal Ridge Autosport.com Anton Marklund will switch from a VW Polo to an Audi S1 in the World Rallycross Championship this season, partnering double DTM champion Mattias Ekstrom in the EKS RX team.”This is an amazing opportunity that Mattias and EKS are giving to me, both to score top results in 2015 and to […]
VW Beetles are increasingly becoming active in global rallies with Eklund Motorsport becoming the latest campaigners. The Swedish team headed by Per Eklund has revealed a VW Beetle which they will field in the 2015 FIA World Rallycross Championship season. This comes shortly after a successful campaign by Tanner Foust in the 2014 Global Rallycross […]
Former WRC driver Manfred Stohl has announced he will race in the 2015 World Rallycross championship for the all-new team World RX Team Austria. Stohl will compete in a Ford Fiesta RX Supercar prepared by his own Stohl Racing operation and will competed as team-mate to owner Max Pucher in the first Austrian team to […]
Having revealed the Ford Fiesta ST RX in 2013, M-Sport continues to expand its projects in the flourishing sport of rallycross. Piloted by global superstar Ken Block, the Fiesta ST RX enjoyed considerable success in both the Redbull Global and FIA World Rallycross Championships last year. Despite missing out on the Global Rallycross laurels by […]
Published as a feature in Maxrally By Petter Solberg When the dream become reality. When the goal was reached. When the trophy was finally in the right hands – my hands. There and then, on the stage in front of an entire motorsports world in Doha, it seriously hit me what I have managed, what […]
Hyundai has elected to withdraw from the Red Bull Global RallyCross Series, partner Rhys Millen Racing has announced. The decision ends a six-year association between the manufacturer and Millen (LEFT), whose team based in Huntington Beach, Calif., has produced world records at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb along with victories in rallycross and Formula […]
World Rallycross champion Petter Solberg has been presented with a Gregor Grant Award at the 2014 AUTOSPORT Awards.Solberg’s success in the inaugural world series for rallycross made him the first man to win FIA world titles in two separate disciplines, as that victory came 11 years after he won the World Rally Championship as a […]
World Rallycross Champion Petter Solberg ended a history-making season in the perfect style as he scored his fifth win of the year in San Luis, Argentina yesterday.Solberg, the first man ever to lift both the World Rally Championship and World RX titles, dominated the 12th and final round of this year’s series. After winning two […]
Volkswagen, Ford and Peugeot teams will fight it out to become the first FIA World Rallycross champion at the final round in Argentina this weekend. The three-way battle for the Teams’ Trophy in the FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy will be concluded at Total Rallycross of Argentina this weekend. Volkswagen Marklund Motorsport, […]
Marklund Motorsport supported by Volkswagen will head the race for the inaugural FIA World Rallycross Championship teams’ title when the series concludes in Argentina next week (November 28/29).The Swedish squad tops the table by four points and will travel to the San Luis circuit determined to cap a memorable season by landing the prestigious accolade […]
Former WRC star Manfred Stohl will compete in the FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy, Round 12, Total Rallycross of Argentina later this month (27-28 November). Stohl – who contested more than 100 WRC events between 1991 and 2012 – will make his RX debut alongside Petter Solberg in a second PSRX-run Citroen […]
Top Gear co-host Tanner Foust finished his “day job” on a high note, taking home the Royal Purple Fan Favorite Driver Award for Red Bull Global Rallycross the day after he placed sixth in the series’ final race in Las Vegas.Tanner, wrapping up his first season with Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross, was named Fan Favorite for […]
Needing a second-place finish in tonight’s Red Bull Global Rallycross final at The LINQ in Las Vegas to capture the 2014 championship, rookie Joni Wiman got the job done with a runner-up performance behind race winner and title rival Ken Block.Wiman, driver of the No. 31 Olsbergs MSE Ford Fiesta ST, did not earn a […]
The Red Bull Global Rallycross Championship (GRC) finale next week promises to be full of all the glitz and drama its host city of Las Vegas is infamous for and Kiwi driver Emma Gilmour plans to put on a good show.Her Rhys Millen Racing Hyundai Veloster Turbo will be running an identical set-up to her team owner […]
Newly-crowned FIA World Rallycross champion Petter Solberg is the latest driver to sign up for the 2014 Race Of Champions at the Bushy Park Circuit in Barbados in December. Solberg has taken four wins already in this year’s inaugural championship – and third place at Italy’s Franciacorta track last week was enough for him to […]
With another strong appearance at the penultimate event of the season at the FIA Rallycross Championship 2014 in Turkey, Toomas “Topi” Heikkinen (FIN) successfully defended second place in the driver rankings. At the same time, the Marklung motorsport team, which includes both of the over 500 PS powerful Volkswagen Polo RX Supercars of Heikkinen and […]
There will be a star-studded showdown at the penultimate round of this year’s FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy as American drivers Tanner Foust and Ken Block compete against each other plus 18 other Supercars at World RX of Turkey this weekend (11-12 October). It will also mark a pivotal point in the […]
Newly crowned World Rallycross champion Petter Solberg is looking to land a deal with a manufacturer to enable him to commit his future to the series.The Norwegian has dominated this year’s inaugural World Rallycross Championship, winning four rounds and taking the title with two races to spare, with his own private team. His title defense […]
Norway’s Petter Solberg has entered the record books after becoming the first FIA World Champion in two different disciplines. He scored enough points in Italy this weekend to secure him the inaugural FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy. After a sensational performance for Team Peugeot-Hansen, Timmy Hansen was awarded the World RX of […]
The Marklund Motorsport team and drivers remain contenders for the FIA World Rallycross Championship title following the race hosted in Germany. The best Volkswagen driver on the Estering near Buxtehude was Toomas ‘Topi’ Heikkinen (FIN), who came fifth in his Polo RX Supercar. This moved Heikkinen up one place in the drivers’ standings, to second […]
The winner of the inaugural FIA World Rallycross Championship could be decided at this weekend’s World RX of Italy (27-28 September). Following three consecutive victories, Petter Solberg has established a 51-point lead . He could lift the Championship trophy in Italy if his advantage at the end of the weekend stretches to 60 points or […]
The Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross team will be racing at the Port of Los Angeles this weekend in an action-packed double header-and will debut the exciting Global Rallycross Beetle that will spearhead the team’s efforts in their 2015 Championship chase. The two-race event will be a new challenge for the team, the only double header weekend […]
DirtFish Rally School in Snoqualmie will holds its first major race in three years this month.The driving school will host Red Bull Global Rally Cross race, on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 26 and 27.On Monday, Aug. 24, the Snoqualmie City Council approved a special event permit for the race, contingent on staff recommendations. The rally […]
World RX is getting busy again – really busy. It’s Germany next week and then Italy the week after. I love it when it’s like this: always close to driving the car again. And I really like this track in Germany. And the guys driving our trucks are also really liking this track because it’s […]
CHAMPIONS FULL OF FIGHT AHEAD OF UPCOMING CAPE TOWN RALLY The Toyota Cape Rally on September 19/20 is going to be another fight-back session for reigning rally champions Mark Cronje and Robin Houghton, whose topsy-turvy season continues to frustrate the most successful rallyists of the current decade. With the 2012 and 2013 championships behind […]