Blockbuster ice race confirmed to open 2025 calendar

The 2025 ‘Battle of Technologies’, which pits electric against renewable fuel-powered combustion vehicles, goes back to Trois-Rivières for the first time since 2019 to take on a Volvo CE-prepared ice track within at the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières (GP3R) circuit.

"We are incredibly excited to be returning to Canada for the first time since 2019 for an event that will look like nothing we have ever seen on the calendar before,” enthused Rallycross Promoter Managing Director Arne Dirks. “We are of course familiar with Trois-Rivières, but seeing it on snow is going to add an all-new incredibly spectacular element to our calendar.

“We cannot think of a better way to kick off the 2025 season.”

Located between Montreal andQuebec City, fans attending will be kept warm in heated glass-enclosed grandstands with temperatures outside expected to be well below freezing. The provisional date for the event is set for 24 – 25 January.

Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières previously featured on FIA World Rallycross Championship calendar from 2014 to 2019 with previous winners including Johan Kristoffersson and Timmy Hansen.

“World RX drivers have always loved coming to Trois-Rivières,” stressed GP3R General Manager Dominic Fugère. “The switch to ice, in the middle of a Quebec winter, will not cool their ardent eagerness to race here.”

The full 2025 FIA World Rallycross Championship calendar will be announced in the coming weeks.

*Subject to FIA World Motor Sport council approval