ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport celebrates anniversary year with two-car Euro RX1 effort

Founded by successful internet entrepreneur Münnich back in 2006, the German outfit first entered the fray 12 months later, with its eponymous owner-driver proceeding to establish himself as a firm front-runner at the pinnacle of European competition over the subsequent two decades. 

A career-high fifth in the points table in 2019 preceded the Neusalza-Spremberg native’s maiden victory at Lohéac in 2021. Additionally a multiple finalist in the FIA World Rallycross Championship, Münnich placed sixth in the Euro RX1 standings in both 2023 and 2025 – adding another podium finish to his tally in Portugal along the way – and he has more silverware in his sights this season behind the wheel of a newly-built SEAT Ibiza Supercar.

He will be partnered by Mandie August, one of the most active female racers in the dual-surface discipline. After lifting the laurels in the Rallycross Challenge Europe in 2016, the German stepped up to Euro RX’s highest level the following year and secured a top ten championship finish for the first time in 2022, courtesy of four points-scoring performances from six rounds.

Only the second woman ever to contest a World RX event – joining the fray for the series’ 2020 double-header finale in Catalunya, where she narrowly missed out on advancing to the semi-final stage on day two – August came within a whisker of reaching the rostrum in Euro RX1 in Norway three years later.

Following 2026’s curtain-raising contest at the historic Biķernieku trase in the Latvian capital of Rīga on 9-10 May, Euro RX competitors will go on to lock horns at Nyirád in Hungary (30-31 May), Höljes in Sweden (4-5 July), Mondello Park in Ireland (18-19 July), Lohéac in France (29-30 August) and finally Lousada in Portugal, where champions will be crowned on 12-13 September.