The World Rallycross Championship will start its 2025 season with an inaugural ice race in Canada on the Trois-Rivieres circuit, topic to World Motor Sport Council approval.
RX occasions usually happen on combined floor tracks, consisting of gravel and grime sections.
The ice occasion is provisionally scheduled to happen on 24-25 January and marks the championship’s first go to to Canada since earlier than the pandemic, having been a fixture on the calendar for the primary six seasons of World RX from 2014.
“We’re extremely excited to be returning to Canada for the primary time since 2019 for an occasion that can seem like nothing we’ve got ever seen on the calendar earlier than,” stated Rallycross Promoter Managing Director Arne Dirks.
“We’re after all conversant in Trois-Rivieres, however seeing it on snow goes so as to add an all-new extremely spectacular ingredient to our calendar.
“We can not consider a greater strategy to kick off the 2025 season.”
An announcement stated that attending followers “will probably be saved heat in heated glass-enclosed grandstands with temperatures exterior anticipated to be properly beneath freezing”.
“World RX drivers have all the time liked coming to Trois-Rivieres,” stated circuit normal supervisor Dominic Fugere.
Johan Kristoffersson
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“The change to ice, in the course of a Quebec winter, is not going to cool their ardent eagerness to race right here.”
World RX has already introduced that its Portuguese spherical will transfer to Lousada, after agreeing a three-year take care of the venue which hosted the FIA European Rallycross Championship from 1991 till 2008, on 2-4 Could.
The Finnish Kymiring circuit has additionally agreed what the promoter has described as a long-term settlement because the nation returns to the calendar for the primary time since 2020.
A full calendar is predicted within the coming weeks and will embody a UK round as plans to realise an inner-city event in Coventry continue to take shape World RX included Lydden Hill on its calendar final yr, its first UK occasion since a go to to Silverstone in 2019, however the premier class was referred to as off following a devastating battery hearth that engulfed Particular One Racing’s Lancia Deltas and meant the RX1e vehicles weren’t seen once more for the rest of the season.
Combustion engine vehicles had been as soon as once more admitted for this season to race in opposition to the electrical RX1e machines in a improvement the promoters have labelled the Battle of Applied sciences.
Six-time champion Johan Kristoffersson is firmly on the right track so as to add one other title to his tally, with a 46-point benefit heading into the season-concluding double-header in China, which replaces the initially deliberate season finale in Australia.
Kristoffersson has pushed a combustion-powered VW Polo for his household Kristoffersson Motorsport staff, entered below the KMS – HORSE Powertrain banner.