The FIA has announced that the World Rallycross Championship will revert to a European Championship from 2026, with a standalone "World Cup" event.

Robert Reid, the FIA’s deputy president for sport and one of the most senior members of Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s presidential team, has resigned from his position with immediate effect over what he calls a “governance crisis” within the governing body.The Scot (pictured at left, above) was a key part of...

Inaugural Nitrocross champion Timmy Hansen will be making his long-awaited return to the series at this week’s 2023-24 season finale in Las Vegas, driving for reigning champion team Dreyer & Reinbold JC.Hansen last raced in the series in 2021, the category’s first as a full multi-event championship, where he finished...

Renowned rallycross team Hansen Motorsport is exploring a return to Nitrocross next season.The team won the first two editions of the contest -- the standalone events at the 2018 and ’19 Nitro World Games -- before coming close to a three-peat in 2021, the series' first full season. But as...

Sustainably-fueled internal combustion-engined cars will return to the World Rallycross championship next season alongside the current electric cars, marking the first time both technologies have competed side-by-side in an FIA world championship.The move, which the FIA is calling a “Battle of Technologies” concept, was approved at the final World Motorsport...

WAE has not made changes to its Extreme E battery, following the recent fire in its pit garage during Formula E testing in Valencia.The company formerly known as Williams Advanced Engineering supplies batteries for both series, opening up the potential for the off-road series to be impacted by the incident.“We...

Arriving at Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, California for the fourth round of the 2022-2023 Nitro Rallycross Championship last Saturday afternoon, this writer didn’t really know what to expect. That changed a few minutes later when the first group of electric Group E FC1-X race cars, boasting 1,070 horsepower...

Three-time World Rallycross champion Johan Kristoffersson will join the inaugural Extreme E grid as Rosberg Xtreme Racing’s male driver.Since joining World RX in 2014, the 32-year-old has amassed 24 event wins in just six seasons of competition. The Swede's experience in multi-car, off-road racing aligns with the short, sharp wheel-to-wheel...

Sport newsJohan Kristoffersson has been named the winner of the World RX of Catalunya-Barcelona, round one of the 2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy, after first-on-the-road Mattias Ekstrom was disqualified from the final following an incident with Petter Solberg. Sebastien Loeb secured second place finish after an...

Sport newsSpeedmachine festival, the centrepiece of the 2018 World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy season, will change the way motorsport engages with fans when it revs into action as part of the first World RX of Great Britain to be held at Silverstone, according to the series’ Managing Director...