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Last month’s World RX of Germany was quite the weekend for Pablo Suárez. At the end of the qualifying stages, he admitted that his morale was low and he was in ‘the worst possible situation’. Just 12 hours later, he was standing up on the FIA RX2e Championship podium for the first time – and making history in the process.
For the first time in history, a rallycross driver has topped a list of the 50 best Hungarian racers in prestigious publication Autósport évkönyv – as Krisztián Szabó was praised for his ‘dedication and commitment’ over the course of his second full season in the FIA World Rallycross Championship in 2021.
The FIA World Rallycross Championship will be comprehensively broadcast across Sweden and Finland from next season in an innovative six-year agreement with C More that additionally incorporates coverage of sister series the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) and FIA European Rally Championship (ERC).
Jesse Kallio might have been the underdog heading into the inaugural FIA RX2e Championship title-decider at World RX of Germany just over a week ago (27-28 November), but the Finn vowed to put up a resolute fight – and he was every bit as good as his word.
In the opening three rounds of the 2021 FIA World Rallycross Championship, Johan Kristoffersson only reached the final once, leaving him 28 points adrift of the summit of the standings. Heading into last weekend’s Nürburgring title-decider, that gap was still 17 points due to Timmy Hansen’s metronomic consistency. But in his own words, and even against almost inconceivable odds, he and his KYB EKS JC team ‘didn’t give up’. His reward was a fourth Drivers’ crown.
Hansen World RX Team clinched its third FIA World Rallycross Championship Teams’ crown at the Nürburgring last weekend (27-28 November), with Team Principal Kenneth Hansen revealing his pride at the family-run outfit’s achievements this year, despite the disappointment of so narrowly missing out on Drivers’ glory.
GCK Motorsport will revive one of the sport’s most iconic cars when it returns to FIA World Rallycross Championship competition for the new electric era in 2022 with a model based upon the legendary Lancia Delta Integrale.
