Day: November 25, 2018

Ekström scales down in World RX

Jens Jensen

The 2018 finale in the FIA World Rallycross Championship had barely been run, before Mattias Ekström had an announcement. The 40 year-old Swede has chosen to limit his own outings in the World RX  Series, so he no longer  races on full time. Audi Sport announced a few months a back, that they would no longer run as a factory team, making the EKS team, which was started by Ekström in 2014, losing their major economical backer. The World RX series has turned into so serious business, that you absolutely…

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Whither Formula One?

Jim Casey

Many are less than thrilled with the current state of Formula One racing, myself included. Part of that is the fact that I’m old, and most old people will tell anyone who will listen that certain things were better in the old days, be it sports, politics, hamburgers, or pizza. My biggest complaint with the current state of Formula One is the ban on in-season testing. What this has wrought for the last several years is that the team/car that is the fastest in preseason testing dominates the entire year,…

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World RX with action right until the flag

Jens Jensen

The FIA World Rallycross Championship delivered a great season finale in South Africa near Cape Town, at the Killarney International Raceway. While Johan Kristoffersson had already been crowed World Champion, there was still a battle between Mattias Ekström, Andreas Bakkerud, Petter Solberg and Sebastien Loeb for second place. The PSRX Volkswagen Sweden team didn’t have the best of preparations, with their cars being delayed on their way to the track, so the team only had them on Friday, which wasn’t ideal. If it was the optimizing of the car setup…

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Fantastic opening to the season

Jens Jensen

Asian Le Mans Series 2018/19 got the season started in China at Shanghai International Circuit with the Agile 4 Hours of Shanghai. The race was started 9.30 local time, and even though the sun was on its way, there was heavy fog until shortly before the start of the race. That meant the asphalt was slightly damp, but all teams still opted for dry weather slicks, since it wasn’t really wet. Luckily the fog was diminishing, so the drivers and not at least the spectators and TV viewers would have…

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