The media launch for the 2015 FIA World Rallycross Championship was held at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya today, as a series of announcements about the FIA’s newest World Championship were revealed to more than 200 international press people, VIPs and sponsors.
Beating the drum: The biggest attraction was the presentation of the ‘Solberg Doran World RX Team’. © JKR/ERC24
Norwegian Petter Solberg and Briton Liam Doran joined forces to be able to fight for the FIA title for teams. © JKR/ERC24
Reigning World Rallycross Champion Petter Solberg is partly backed by Monster Energy this year. © JKR/ERC24
Reinis Nitišs and Andreas Bakkerud are keen to defend their FIA title for teams and chase after the drivers’ title. © JKR/ERC24
Marklund Motorsport showed its all-new VW Polo Mk5 SuperCar in action. © JKR/ERC24
New cars with new livery and new designed overalls for Marklund Motorsport’s ‘Topi’ Heikkinen and ‘P-G’ Andersson. © JKR/ERC24
Team Peugeot-Hansen offered a first impression of the new 2015 Peugeot 208 for Timmy Hansen and Davy Jeanney. © JKR/ERC24
German René Münnich was in Barcelona to present Swede Alx Danielsson as teammate for the first three WRX rounds. © JKR/ERC24
Robin Larsson (left) and Timur Timerzyanov are the two permanent individual drivers alongside the eight teams. © JKR/ERC24
JRM Racing – a new development team in WorldRX – was also in Barcelona with two of its brand-new MINI SuperCars. © JKR/ERC24
The American drivers Danny Way (left) and Dave Mirra were in Barcelona for the JRM Racing MINI SuperCars team. © JKR/ERC24
Top photo: The WorldRX ‘Class of 2015’ counts eight permanent teams and two permanent drivers. © JKR/ERC24
More images from Barcelona to be found here.