A number of drivers that previously contested the U.S.-based Nitrocross rallycross-like series will line up for the start of the RallyX Euro League season in Montalegre, Portugal this weekend.The 2024-25 Nitrocross season was curtailed after four rounds as part of a financially influenced move by the series’ parent company, which...

Ellis Spiezia will compete in the World Rallycross-supporting RX2e category this season, joining a long list of American youngsters who have crossed the pond to race in rallycross’ development classes.The 18-year-old New Jersey native will be the the first American since Conner Martell in 2021 to compete in RX2e, and...

Reigning Champion Mattias Ekstrom has won round one of the FIA World Rallycross Championship in Barcelona after taking a lights-to-flag victory at the wheel of his Audi S1 EKS RX quattro. Germany's Timo Scheider finished runner-up in his MJP Racing-run Ford Fiesta RXS Supercar after a stunning debut which saw...

Sebastien Loeb began his World Rallycross Championship campaign with fifth as double champion Petter Solberg led home an epic season opener at Montalegre in Portugal.Loeb (ABOVE), who was knocked out in the semis on his last RX start in the series' European predecessor at Loheac in 2013, was the only...

Petter Solberg is relishing the chance to renew his rivalry with Sebastien Loeb in World Rallycross but admits he has more to worry about than just the nine-time WRC champion.Solberg starts his second successive World RX title defence at the Montalegre track in Portugal on Saturday, when his former World...

Sebastien Loeb has admitted he had the chance to remain in the World Touring Car Championship this year but saw World Rallycross as a more entertaining option.Loeb had always intended to drive for Citroen in WTCC this season until it became clear his services were not required as it cut...

Sport newsReigning World RX Champion Petter Solberg clinched the runners-up spot and Timmy Hansen finished third for Team Peugeot-Hansen.Kristoffersson – an accomplished racing driver having won the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (STCC) and Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia – lined up on the front row along Solberg for today’s six-car final....

The 2015 World Rallycross Championship calendar features a shake-up in the order of events and the introduction of Formula 1 venue Barcelona replacing Kouvola in Finland.The Spanish event will run as round nine of the series, just two weeks before returning to former F1 venue Istanbul Park in Turkey, which...

Petter Solberg scored an emphatic victory at the first round of the World Rallycross Championship at Montalegre in Portugal, ahead of OlsbergsMSE pair Andreas Bakkerud and Reinis Nitiss.Solberg qualified on pole position and led into the first corner, despite making a slightly slower getaway than fellow Norwegian Bakkerud, who drew...

Newly-formed World Rallycross Championship team EKS, founded by double DTM champion Mattias Ekstrom, will run a pair of Audi S1 Supercars at select rounds of the series this season.The Swedish squad will build the new machines from scratch at their base in Stockholm for Ekstrom and reigning JWRC champion Pontus...