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27 Feb 2013

US Rallycross ace Tanner Foust has lost his World Record for reaching an in-door speed of 139.98kms/h (with a 560bhp OMSE Ford Fiesta Mk7 Rallycross SuperCar) to Finnish WRC star Mikko Hirvonen. The Finn used a Kart (750cc, 312kgs) to reach 140kms/h and, thereby, to replace the American in the ‘Guinnes Book of Records’.

Posted Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 by
27 Feb 2013

Reigning European Rallycross Champion Timur Timerzyanov was one of the three top nominees for the “Russia’s Driver of the Year 2012” title. But the man from Tatarstan as well as Formula One pilot Vitaly Petrov had eventually to give in to WRC star Evgeny Novikov who won the prestigious award.

Posted Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 by
26 Feb 2013

Travis Pastrana: “I am still very passionate about racing Rallycross. The Dart is a kick ass car that goes zero to sixty in under 2 seconds. Not much on earth is more fun than sliding and jumping your way through an event. That’s why I’ll be racing as many GRC events as I can this year. I am scheduled to race 6 of the rounds and our team is expecting to be in the hunt to win at every event we enter.”

Posted Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 by
25 Feb 2013

ERC24 just learned from Anton Marklund that the Swedish youngster is going to participate the coming Sunday with his VW Polo Mk5 SuperCar in the BRC opener at Maasmechelen in Belgium.

Posted Monday, February 25th, 2013 by
24 Feb 2013

As the FIA has granted the use of the tag ERC to the FIA European Rally Championship the organisers of ‘The Rallycross Challenge’ have, on request from Paris, changed their name and logo (from ERC to RC). The organisers of the FIA European Rallycross Championship are using the tags RX and RallycrossRX.

Posted Sunday, February 24th, 2013 by
23 Feb 2013

Petter Solberg: “When I focus on something it must always be the very best. That’s the reason why I hired an experienced Formula One engineer, Briton Simon Levett, who leads the project to build my new Rallycross car. But Simon comes not only from the world of F1, he also has extensive experience with Rallycross. For some time he worked together with Martin Schanche.”

Posted Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 by
22 Feb 2013

Baby Blue in DS3 SuperCar

Posted Friday, February 22nd, 2013 by

Andreas Bakkerud has made his dream come true, the Norwegian is going to drive an almost 600bhp strong Citroën DS3 SuperCar in the 2013 RallycrossRX series.

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