Crowned European Autocross Champion in the TouringAutocross division in
2017, Fučík stepped up to rallycross the following year in Euro RX’s headlining
category, running under the KRTZ Motorsport ACCR Czech Team banner. Since then,
he has scored points 11 times from 18 outings, with a best result of sixth
place – just one spot shy of the final – in Hungary in 2022, and a highest
championship finish of eighth in 2020.
The upcoming campaign will mark the Czech driver’s fourth full season in
Euro RX, and in evidence of his intent, he has acquired an ex-Kristoffersson
Motorsport Volkswagen Polo, raced in the RallyX series by Kristoffersson in
2022 and Ole Christian Veiby in 2023.
Fučík has been putting the car through its paces in both testing and
race conditions, recently reaching the rostrum in the second round of the
Hungarian Rallycross Championship at Nyirád behind Tamás Kárai and Máté Benyó.
He similarly plans to contest the forthcoming Austrian and Czech Championship
event at Fuglau, before the 2024 Euro RX action gets underway at Essay in
France on 8-9 June – the first of five rounds on the series’ schedule.
Last year, the Znojmo native advanced to the semi-final stage in both of
his appearances in Euro RX1. Twelve months on, he makes it clear, he wants
more...
“After last season, I was thinking about how to create new motivation
for myself and the team,” reflected Fučík, who celebrated his 50th
birthday last summer. “The old car was no longer enough from an engine point-of-view
to take on the best, so we needed to look for something new.
“Audi and Hyundai are financially out of our reach, so the options were
the [Ford] Fiesta or staying with Volkswagen. After I contacted Tommy
Kristoffersson, who told me they would sell their ‘old’ cars, it was the
obvious choice. We went to Sweden for a test, and then we made a deal.
“We are still getting to know the car. It’s a completely different
concept compared to our previous Polo. There are still more testing kilometres
to go and I’m continuing to explore the limits, but I have to say, it’s a big
change for the better.
“Let’s see what kind of competition we will meet at the start, but I
would like to finish as high as possible in the European Championship. In the
past, my maximum was the semi-finals. Now, my aim is to get into the final in
every round.”
Italy
Sweden
France
