Rallycross News Ekström to make World RX return at Riga Mattias Ekström will return to the World Rallycross Championship for this weekend’s double-header event in Latvia, marking his first starts in the series since 2020’s… Read more by Dominik Wilde September 13, 2021 2 min
World RX News Nürburgring round postponed until end of World RX season World Rallycross’ upcoming trip to the Nürburgring has been postponed as a result of the flooding that has blighted much of western Europe. The Rhineland-Palatinate… Read more by Dominik Wilde July 22, 2021
World RX News DirtFish driver McConnell to sample RX2e at Barcelona Fraser McConnell will add another program to his already busy 2021 season by joining the RX2e field at its inaugural event in Barcelona next month…. Read more by Dominik Wilde June 30, 2021 2 min
World RX News Norway dropped and Portugal returns in World RX shuffle A revised 2021 World Rallycross Championship calendar has been issued which includes a return to the Montalegre circuit in Portugal for the first time since… Read more by Dominik Wilde May 12, 2021 2 min
World RX News Eight-round Europe-only calendar for World RX in 2021 The final dates for the 2021 World Rallycross Championship season – the first under WRC Promoter’s tenure as promoter – have been announced with no… Read more by Luke Barry March 26, 2021 2 min
Rally News ‘Quattro’ Rally2 car built by Ekström’s team The legendary Audi Quattro Group B rally car has been reimagined and modeled for the present day by 2016 World Rallycross Champion Mattias Ekström and… Read more by Luke Barry March 4, 2021 3 min
World RX News WRC Promoter appointed new World RX rights holder WRC Promoter has been announced as the new commercial rights holder for the World Rallycross Championship ahead of the 2021 season. A tender for a… Read more by Dominik Wilde February 11, 2021 2 min
WRC Features The one design that spawned two of VW’s greatest cars Though this feature may be about Volkswagen Motorsport and the numbers #20 and #21, it’s sadly not about the car giant making a U-turn on… Read more by Dominik Wilde December 30, 2020 5 min
World RX Features The major talking points from World RX 2020 Despite weathering all manner of coronavirus-related storms, the 2020 World Rallycross season will go down as a classic. Notwithstanding a late start and early finish,… Read more by Dominik Wilde December 22, 2020 5 min
World RX News Finland returns for World RX 2021 but no new promoter yet The latest World Motor Sport Council meeting has produced a provisional World Rallycross Championship calendar for next season, though a replacement promoter for the outgoing… Read more by Ida Wood December 16, 2020 2 min
World RX News Hansen: Delayed electric switch cost World RX manufacturers Timmy Hansen believes the World Rallycross Championship would still have some manufacturers involved had the series switched to electric powertrains in 2020 as originally planned…. Read more by Dominik Wilde December 16, 2020 2 min
Rallycross Features Opinion Is the 2020 World RX season a legitimate one? Should the 2020 World Rallycross season’s entry into the history books have an asterisk next to it? It’s a real toughie. On the one hand,… Read more by Dominik Wilde November 23, 2020 3 min
Rallycross News Clear roadmap “crucial” for World RX electric switch: Kristoffersson World Rallycross Championship points leader Johan Kristoffersson believes a clear roadmap from the category’s new promoter is needed before it makes the full-time switch to… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon November 4, 2020 5 min
World RX Features How bad timing sidelined rallycross’ disabled trailblazer There is no rallycross hall of fame. Not yet at least. The names that would conceivably be there are fairly obvious; Kenneth Hansen, the most… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay November 3, 2020 10 min +
World RX Opinion Did World RX’s Barcelona final shunt deserve a penalty? Johan Kristoffersson and Andreas Bakkerud’s coming together in the World Rallycross Championship’s Barcelona final last Sunday (link) reignited an age-old ideological debate; to penalize or… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 20, 2020 5 min
Rallycross News Hansen relieved to “beat the unbeatable” for first 2020 win Team Hansen’s World Rallycross struggle is over, declared reigning champion Timmy Hansen after he “beat the unbeatable” Johan Kristoffersson/Volkswagen combination for the squad’s first 2020… Read more by Dominik Wilde October 19, 2020 2 min
World RX News Hansen taking “risk” with test mileage to catch leaders Reigning World Rallycross champions Team Hansen has been “pushing the limits” in testing as it seeks its first round victory of the season. The Peugeot… Read more by Dominik Wilde October 16, 2020 3 min
World RX News World RX promoter to step down early at end of season IMG will step down as the promoter of the World Rallycross Championship at the end of the 2020 season. The decision was confirmed in an… Read more by Dominik Wilde October 14, 2020 3 min
