Day: March 8, 2018

24 cars entered for the season opener

Jens Jensen

The Verizon IndyCar Series will have 24 cars at the season opener this weekend. The season starts in St. Petersburg, Florida, where the streets around the Mahaffy Theater and the Dali Museum invite the IndyCar series. The defending Champion Josef Newgarden stays at Team Penske, and is the favourite to take the title again this year. However he can’t relax too much with his two teammates, Simon Pagenaud and Will Power, who without a doubt want to add another title to their CVs. Scott Dixon at Chip Ganassi Racing will…

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Olsbergs MSE returns to the World RX

Jens Jensen

The Olsbergs MSE team returns to the FIA World Rallycross Championship in 2018. The team, who won the Teams Championship back in 2014, took a break from the World RX in 2017, while they put focus on their other Rallycross programmes, including winning the RX2 Championship. But it’s not only the team that returns, but also one of its drivers, returns to the series after a break. Kevin Eriksson and Robin Larsson will be the two drivers, who both are previous winners in the best Rallycross category in the world.…

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GRX TANECO with two cars

Jens Jensen

The FIA World Rallycross Championship will have a new two-car team, when the season starts in one month time in Barcelona. The GRX TANECO team will enter two Hyundai i20 cars, with a history in the World Rally Championship The man behind the GRX team is Markus Grönholm, where his son Niclas was the only driver throughout the 2017 season. They ran a single Ford Fiesta, but now they expands with the double FIA European Rallycross Champion, Timur Timerzyanov. The team boss Markus underlines that the team is a privateer,…

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BMW releases 2018 DTM colours

Jens Jensen

BMW has released the colours of their 6 DTM cars for the upcoming 2018 season. Bruno Spengler, Timo Glock, Marco Wittmann and Augusto Farfus will continue to run in the same colours, while one of the new drivers in the Championship, Philipp Eng, will take over the Samsung colours from Maxime Martin. The other new man, Joel Eriksson, will have some brand new colours on the car, which will be running in grey and purple colours, with the new main sponsor being Puma. The cars will get their public debut…

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