World Rallycross Championship 2018 - Page 7

The Eye · 13 Jan 2018, 05:42 (Ref:3792411)

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Originally Posted by tbtstt

Just seen that my favourite World car of the last couple of years has gone up for sale:

GRX Facebook - M-Sport Ford Fiesta for sale

Interesting, in a The Checkered Flag interview Marcus Grönholm says that if the Hyundai plans do not go through, they will drive with the M-Sport Fiesta. If the Ford is for sale, does it mean that the Hyundai deal is ready?

The Eye · 19 Jan 2018, 18:32 (Ref:3793851)

Several sources claim that at least 2 of the EKS S1 cars have been purchased by the Belgian team Comtoyou Racing. French Benoît Tréluyer and Belgian Enzo Ide will apparently drive for the team in WRX 2018.

NaBUru38 · 20 Jan 2018, 16:22 (Ref:3794021)

Tréluyer would be awesome!

**FIRE** · 20 Jan 2018, 16:41 (Ref:3794026)

Money seems no problem for the guy behind Comtoyou...

mivec · 20 Jan 2018, 18:05 (Ref:3794035)

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Originally Posted by The Eye

Several sources claim that at least 2 of the EKS S1 cars have been purchased by the Belgian team Comtoyou Racing. French Benoît Tréluyer and Belgian Enzo Ide will apparently drive for the team in WRX 2018.

Several Sources?

crossfades · 20 Jan 2018, 19:10 (Ref:3794036)

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Originally Posted by mivec

Several Sources?

There is a group on Facebook called Enthusiasts of Höljes RX where people share articles and posts related to rallycross and especially WRX and ERX. Two different sources were posted and shared in the group.

One is from rallycross.no that wrote on Facebook that a team, with a pic referring to Comtoyou, had bought EKS cars and were to run them.

The other source was a pic of a text where someone had wrote that he or she had read on the internet, although not confirmed, that the cars were bought by Comtoyou and that they would field two cars for the drivers mentioned above. It was not visible in the pic who had written the text.

chunder · 20 Jan 2018, 20:29 (Ref:3794043)

Sounds like another Munnich

J.U. · 22 Jan 2018, 12:45 (Ref:3794277)

Hopefully some good news to come next week: https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/...-ekstroem-9784

CS1 · 22 Jan 2018, 20:29 (Ref:3794381)

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Originally Posted by crossfades

There is a group on Facebook called Enthusiasts of Höljes RX where people share articles and posts related to rallycross and especially WRX and ERX. Two different sources were posted and shared in the group.

One is from rallycross.no that wrote on Facebook that a team, with a pic referring to Comtoyou, had bought EKS cars and were to run them.

The other source was a pic of a text where someone had wrote that he or she had read on the internet, although not confirmed, that the cars were bought by Comtoyou and that they would field two cars for the drivers mentioned above. It was not visible in the pic who had written the text.

Seems like it’s gathering momentum now
Hopefully EKS are back in the same way as last year and it should keep the progress of the championship

chunder · 22 Jan 2018, 23:48 (Ref:3794421)

Progress? I see little progress, losing Ford, Audi, and perhaps one or two others is not progress. The series stagnated massively last year.

That is part of the reason why they are pushing electric, in a desperate effort to get manufacturers, that is all IMG cares about, literally ALl.

mivec · 23 Jan 2018, 17:03 (Ref:3794574)

Hope they have at least the same number of cars as last year. This was the minimum to have a nice event!
In this case, we need some new teams/drivers...

At the moment there are more "-" then "+" with just 2.5 months to go.

Let's hope for some good news next week from EKS.
If it was bad news, they would cover in silence...

crossfades · 23 Jan 2018, 18:41 (Ref:3794590)

EKS have been posting videos and pics since the season ended and was supposed to announce something in December. There have also been lots of rumours of them staying and building new cars.

mivec · 24 Jan 2018, 21:04 (Ref:3794823)

Only problem would be the DTM race in Hockenheim and WRX in Buxtehude is on the same date; 13 & 14 october 2018.

J.U. · 25 Jan 2018, 09:33 (Ref:3794895)

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Originally Posted by Reinis Nitiss / Twitter

Year 2017 with @EKSRX was a great experience and I will value the lessons learned and cherish the fun moments we had together! Thank you all at #EKSRX and @audisport - now it's time for me to see new challenges in 2018! #ThankYou #StayTuned #FunTimesAhead @FIAWorldRX

Reinis Nitiss will obviously not continue with EKS RX.

tbtstt · 25 Jan 2018, 09:50 (Ref:3794904)

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Originally Posted by J.U.

Reinis Nitiss will obviously not continue with EKS RX.

Was just coming here to post that! Shame for Nitiss, hopefully he will find a drive elsewhere.

I have read a few comments online about Timur Timerzyanov at EKS. Apparently Timur hasn't been at the recent STARD test sessions?

J.U. · 25 Jan 2018, 11:18 (Ref:3794929)

Some news about Andreas Bakkerud:
https://parcferme.no/nyheter/andreas...rallycross-vm/

If I understood it correctly he hasn't signed any sponsorship deals. So obviously he would be able to join a Red Bull backed team like Peugeot-Hansen or EKS. He also reveals that he talked to every team apart from PSRX.

crossfades · 25 Jan 2018, 16:48 (Ref:3795008)

PSRX thought of having three cars for a while and Solberg was positive to putting Bakkerud in one of them. The plans were shelved though due to the extra costs.

JorritVD · 25 Jan 2018, 20:37 (Ref:3795086)

I saw EKS posted yesterday a video on their FB. The Audi not had Red Bull logos on it anymore. So it seems EKS lost its Red Bull sponsorship.

What I think about the WRX, till 2017 it was growing, though i think the biggest problem was/is the dominance of the VW team in 2017 (and with that the rising budgets as well). This made Block/Ford leave, and possible EKS/Audi as well, and next to that Peugeot was considering stopping.

The same is happening in the GRX. The Beetles are to dominant there.

mivec · 25 Jan 2018, 20:40 (Ref:3795087)

Does Bakkerud have Monster sponsorship at all?
The team he was driving was Monster, as Block is a Monster man...

Same for Timerzyanov, he had RedBull sponsorship before he went to team Hansen, he left, an RedBull stayed at Hansen...

chunder · 25 Jan 2018, 23:11 (Ref:3795137)

I think Bakkerud had it when he raced for Doran, but it was far smaller than Gatebil boys logo.

Did not have it at Eriksson

mivec · 26 Jan 2018, 08:48 (Ref:3795212)

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Originally Posted by chunder

I think Bakkerud had it when he raced for Doran, but it was far smaller than Gatebil boys logo.

Did not have it at Eriksson

As Doran was a Monster guy...

tbtstt · 26 Jan 2018, 09:00 (Ref:3795213)

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Originally Posted by crossfades

PSRX thought of having three cars for a while and Solberg was positive to putting Bakkerud in one of them. The plans were shelved though due to the extra costs.

Real shame this didn't happen. Given that PSRXVW have three cars, it would have been really interesting to see how Bakkerud performed in the Polo.

I must admit I assumed that the sponsors were with the drivers rather than the teams. As you guys have rightly pointed out though, there are a few examples where the sponsor has stayed with the team, so perhaps there is more chance of Bakkerud at EKS than I thought.

Ekstrom, Bakkerud, Timerzyanov and Larsson in four new EKS S1's would be perfect news on Monday.

J.U. · 26 Jan 2018, 10:14 (Ref:3795222)

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Originally Posted by JorritVD

I saw EKS posted yesterday a video on their FB. The Audi not had Red Bull logos on it anymore. So it seems EKS lost its Red Bull sponsorship.

EKS posted this as an answer yesterday: "No worries, the bull will be back!" Sounds like they will be back this year.

**BertMk2** · 26 Jan 2018, 10:18 (Ref:3795224)

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Originally Posted by J.U.

EKS posted this as an answer yesterday: "No worries, the bull will be back!" Sounds like they will be back this year.

It would be a surprise for Ekstrom not to have Red Bull backing - the rallycross cars had it last year, he's been in a Red Bull backed DTM car for years and when he was rallying he had Red Bull backing on the car too.

crossfades · 26 Jan 2018, 10:41 (Ref:3795230)

Well Ekström will announce his plans at Red Bull Hangar-7.

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