Rallycross

Rallycross is a form of sprint style automobile racing, held on a closed mixed-surface racing circuit, with modified production or specially built road cars, similar to the World Rally Cars, although usually with about 200 bhp (150 kW) stronger engines, due to e.g. their 45 mm turbo restrictor plates. It is mainly popular in the Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Great Britain. An inexpensive, entry level type of rallycross is the Swedish folkrace or its Norwegian counterpart, the so-called bilcross. The folkrace is most popular in Finland where it was founded back in late 60's. In Europe, rallycross can also refer to racing 1:8 scale off-road radio-controlled buggies.

The First Rallycross Race was held on 4 February 1967, and won by Porsche's Vic Elford.

Notable Drivers
This is a list of notable participants of this sport, whether at international or national level.


 * 🇳🇴 Martin Schanche (6 times European Rallycross Champion)
 * 🇸🇪 Kenneth Hansen (14 times European Rallycross Champion)
 * 🇷🇺 Timur Timerzyanov (twice European Rallycross Champion)
 * 🇬🇧 Liam Doran (son of Pat Doran)
 * 🇬🇧 Pat Doran (4 times British Rallycross Champion and father of Liam Doran)
 * 🇮🇪 Dermot Carnegie (5 times British Rallycross Champion)
 * 🇬🇧 Julian Godfrey (4 times British Rallycross Champion in the last 4 years)
 * 🇺🇸 Tanner Foust (twice Global RallyCross Champion)
 * 🇺🇸 Ken Block
 * 🇳🇴 Petter Solberg (2014-2015 World Rallycross Champion)
 * 🇸🇪 Mattias Ekström (2016 World Rallycross Champion)
 * 🇬🇧 Vic Elford (former Formula One driver and winner of the first rallycross event in history)
 * 🇳🇴 Sverre Isachsen
 * 🇺🇸 Scott Speed (former Formula One driver and Global RallyCross driver)
 * 🇧🇷 Nelson Piquet, Jr. (former Formula One driver and Global RallyCross driver)
 * 🇫🇮 Toomas Heikkinen
 * 🇫🇮 Joni Wiman
 * 🇬🇧 Will Gollop
 * 🇸🇪 Kevin Hansen
 * 🇸🇪 Timmy Hansen
 * 🇨🇦 Jacques Villeneuve (1997 Formula One Drivers' champion and World Rallycross driver)
 * 🇳🇴 Andreas Bakkerud
 * 🇮🇪 Derek Tohill (first Irishman to win the European Rallycross Championship)
 * 🇬🇧 Andrew Jordan (British Touring Car Champion and World Rallycross driver)
 * 🇮🇹 Gigi Galli
 * 🇬🇧 James May
 * 🇫🇷 Davy Jeanney

Female drivers

 * 🇳🇴 Camilla Antonsen
 * 🇸🇪 Susann Bergvall (first female winner of the European Rallycross Championship and wife of Kenneth Hansen)
 * 🇺🇸 Collete Davis
 * 🇸🇪 Ramona Karlsson
 * 🇫🇮 Karoliina Leppihalme (sister of Jussi-Petteri Leppihalme)
 * 🇫🇷 Adeline Sangnier

Championship

 * World Rallycross Championship (since 2014)
 * European Rallycross Championship (since 1976)
 * Global RallyCross Championship (since 2011)
 * British Rallycross Championship