Tue 21 Feb 2023

VIDEO: Test-Driving the Peugeot 208 RX1e

What’s it like to drive one of the latest-generation, all-electric World RX beasts? Series commentator Hal Ridge – no slouch behind the wheel himself – took Hansen World RX Team’s Peugeot 208 RX1e for a spin to find out...

“This is an incredibly special opportunity. I’m actually really, really nervous.”

Ridge is no stranger to driving – and racing – fast rallycross cars, but this, he acknowledged, was something different. Only ten people had previously driven a current FIA World Rallycross Championship car – and all of them raced in the series in 2022. At Lavaré in France after the end of the season, Hal became the 11th member of that very exclusive club. Take a look below at how he got on...

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Test-Driving the Peugeot 208 RX1e
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