Timmy Hansen set to contest RallyX Americas

Timmy Hansen has become the first driver to formally commit to the new RallyX Americas series.

The 2019 FIA World Rallycross champion will race in the premier hypercar category, driving the all-electric FC1-X previously used in Nitrocross.

“I am incredibly excited to be joining the Rally X America Championship and happy to continue racing in Team Hansen in top-level rallycross,” he said. “We will be competing in the FC1 Hypercar – a car I have experienced firsthand in Las Vegas two years ago – and it is very fast!

“The series is visiting some truly iconic venues, starting with the legendary Crandon International Raceway in Wisconsin, and with such a strong, competitive field of drivers, I absolutely cannot wait to get this new adventure underway.”

Hansen won the inaugural Nitro Rallycross contest at the 2018 Nitro World Games and subsequently returned for the 2019 edition, finishing third behind brother Kevin Hansen and Patrik Sandell. He then competed in the 2021 Nitro Rallycross season, a five-event campaign spawned from the 2018 and ‘19 World Games events. He finished third again, this time behind Travis Pastrana and Scott Speed, claiming wins in Utah and Florida along the way.

Since then the Hansen name has been largely absent from rallycross in the U.S. The family team had explored options of getting into the series which would go on the be known as Nitrocross but aside from a one-off entry for Timmy Hansen at the 2023-24 season finale in Las Vegas (driving a car entered by the partnership of JC Raceteknik and Dreyer & Reinbold Racing), it stayed away until it committed to RallyX Americas earlier this year.

“We are more than happy to join RallyX Americas for 2026 and beyond,” said Hansen Motorsport team principal Kenneth Hansen. “It is a big milestone for the sport of rallycross. The teams, Set Promotion, JC Raceteknik, OMSE and Hansen together with the RallyX Management have worked together with the goal to make the sport as great as it deserves to be with a healthy and sustainable structure that we all believe in.

“The style of tracks Rally X Americas offers are a bit different from what we normally see in Europe with more gravel and demanding corners, jumps and velodromes that will guarantee the best possible rallycross show. Cars sliding side by side, overtakings and a lot of airtime – I can’t wait to see it!”

Hansen Motorsport isn't currently competing in the FIA European Rallycross Championship, derived from the world championship which stopped at the end of last year. It marks the first season since the team was founded in 1990 that it hasn't competed in the top rung of the FIA's rallycross ladder.

Timmy Hansen has been competing in the E1 electric boat racing series for Marc Anthony's Team Miami, made an appearance in RallyX's Nordic series at Tierp Arena in Sweden on May 16-17 and took two seventh-place finishes in the Porsche Carrera Cup races at Karlskoga last weekend in a pair of guest outings.