Austrian VW Polo racer Christian Petrakovits is ready for the Channel crossing and the opening round of the ERC at Lydden Hill near Dover. During the winter his Super1600 VW Polo was upgraded to the latest Volkswagen specs and first tests backed up most of the expected improvements. Like in 2011 the responsible men...
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The 2012 Global Rallycross Championship schedule that RallycrossWorld.com had already published on March 5 was yesterday officially confirmed in Las Vegas – but with another reservation: all dates are now declared as “tentative and subject to change”. While in the ‘General Information for 2012 – March 5 Update’ only Round 6 at Atlanta Motor Speedway was...
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In an interview with journalist and friend Simen Næss Hagen for ‘Glåmdalen’, his local website, Norwegian Mats Lysen has revealed that he is in desperate need of another €40,000 to secure his 2012 Rallycross programme – or will be forced to quit. The 20-year-old has set himself March 10 as deadline to get his...
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Anders Kulläng (DOB 23.09.1943 – DOD 27.02.2012) We at RallycrossWorld.com are sad to learn that Swedish Rally legend and Rallycross driver of the 1970s Anders Kulläng has died of drowning while being on holidays in Thailand, where he had a vacation home. In his early WRC years Kulläng drove for Opel, claiming his biggest ever...
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Norwegian Guttorm Lindefjell is set to drive all ten rounds of the 2012 European Rallycross Championship with the Škoda Fabia Mk1 he shared last year with compatriot Ole Kristian Nøttveit. Each of the two drove three out of the ten 2011 ERC rounds, Lindefjell scored the best result in Holland where he made it into...
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