News

15 Apr 2013

GRC: It takes two to Samba

Posted Monday, April 15th, 2013 by

With 2004 ‘Indy 500’ winner Buddy Rice and 2006/2007 Formula One driver Scott Speed the Brazilian Global X Games will see two American tarmac dancers to do their first steps on a RallyCross floor.

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11 Apr 2013

1967: No Brands, no FMD, no BBC

Posted Thursday, April 11th, 2013 by

For more than 30 years some people keep on claiming that the motorsport of Rallycross owes its existence to either a 1963 Rallysprint-type event held at the car parks of Brands Hatch Circuit, or to the outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease in the UK – or even to both. All utter nonsense! Rallycross was born at Lydden Hill, already nine months before the 1967 RAC Rally was cancelled due to FMD. And it was not born for the BBC ‘Grandstand’ cameras, as often claimed, but for an ITV programme called ‘World of Sport’.

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04 Apr 2013

RX: The Champions’ factory

Posted Thursday, April 4th, 2013 by

With a total of 16 European Rallycross Championship titles Hansen Motorsport is the most successful team in Rallycross history. However, the kick-off of a new Rallycross era looked very promising for HM, but at the end of the Easter weekend they had to leave Lydden Circuit with less they had hoped for.

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01 Apr 2013

RX: Foust claims opener

Posted Monday, April 1st, 2013 by

American OlsbergsMSE driver Tanner Foust wins the 2013 RallycrossRX opener at Lydden Hill in Great Britain and gains a second consecutive European round win at the Kent circuit near Dover.

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31 Mar 2013

Hansen junior rules Day 1

Posted Sunday, March 31st, 2013 by

Timmy Hansen, the son of 14-times ERC winner Kenneth Hansen, made the first day of the new FIA European Rallycross Championship his by claiming both, the first and the second qualifying heats.

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29 Mar 2013

Way of the Dragon

Posted Friday, March 29th, 2013 by

Petter Solberg’s back, and is reigniting the spirit of Bruce Lee in order to “bring back his own fighting spirit.” Petter claims that he “hasn’t been this motivated for years”, and as ERX Round 1 approaches, ERC24 caught up with the Norwegian.

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29 Mar 2013

A Sandell goes RallyCross

Posted Friday, March 29th, 2013 by

2006 FIA Junior World Rally Champion Patrik Sandell from Sweden leaps to the world of Global RallyCross Championship and Global X Games with Ford.

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