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Ekstrom's EKS Audi World Rallycross team faces uncertain future
World Rallycross champion Mattias Ekstrom's EKS team faces an uncertain future, and may not continue with its Audi-backed project in 2018.

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He made no secret of the fact EKS would be unable to defend its RX crowns without additional support from Audi Sport, which was secured for this year.

Asked if he will continue in World RX in 2018, Ekstrom told Autosport: "I would love to continue but I don't know if we are continuing.

"As a driver I would love to continue in rallycross. If I answer as a driver, I can see my DTM career - with Mercedes pulling out - coming to an end in 2018.

"I would enjoy doing rallycross for a couple more years, but from a team perspective it's a different story.

"I don't know if we will have what it takes to be here next year."

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In the Loheac paddock on Thursday evening, EKS revealed that it will sell four of its five Audi S1 Supercar chassis, and invited other teams and drivers to view the cars in what it called its 'used car sales' awning.

The S1s will sold be via an eBay auction, which will conclude with a live event on the evening of the German round of the series at the Estering on September 29.

The cars are for sale individually, or as a 'family package' combining all four plus spares.

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Factory Peugeot RX team Hansen is also yet to confirm if it will continue in the series.

Team principal Kenneth Hansen said: "For the winter, I don't know yet how the future looks, but of course if we should be here next then we should do something during the winter to try to develop.

"It's difficult to say exactly what; we've tried our best during the season, we have a great car, it works very fine and it's not been enough still."

https://www.autosport.com/wrx/news/1...certain-future

Even for the big teams it gets already to expensive?