Global RallyCross Championship
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Following major changes to the series this year, Red Bull Global Rallycross is likely dead. The series, not to be confused with the FIA World Rallycross Championship (World RX), has reportedly been struggling for months with a series of lawsuits and unpaid bills, Jalopnik reported on Tuesday. Surfing over to the series' official website shows a completely blank events page. This year, GRC was readying changes to its vehicle classes. The top-level Supercars class was dropped in favor of a Gold class. The class encompasses the series' spec Lites cars, which left many teams without a segment to...
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Michael Andretti says Global Rallycross is perfect for EVs
The Red Bull Global Rallycross racing series kicked off in 2011. The series involves short sprint races of just a few laps in an all-out blitz for supremacy. The last few years have been dominated by Andretti Racing. Partnered with Volkswagen and run by Michael Andretti, this team features drivers...
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Let's go for a ride along in a 600-hp Subaru Rallycross car
Jason from Engineering Explained sits in the passenger seat for this ride along. He's accompanied by David Higgins (yes, brother of the also crazy-talented Mark) and the pair are set to explore a lap of the Global Rallycross Los Angeles course. The car here is a Subaru racing machine that's capable...
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How Global Rallycross cars hit 60 mph in 1.9 seconds
Our friend Jason Fenske from Engineering Explained recently attended a Red Bull Global Rallycross race, and, of course, he found a way to explain things using an equation. Jason specifically honed in on the incredible acceleration of these cars. All of the cars are powered by 2.0-liter turbocharged...
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Scott Speed Gears Up For New Season Of GRC With Shark Week-Themed Beetle
The 2015 Global Rallycross Championship gets underway May 31 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and one of the cars to watch out for will be the Shark Week-themed Beetle GRC of team Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross. Before you start thinking VW may have jumped the shark with its GRC efforts, recall that...
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Subaru Shows Off 580-HP WRX STI VT15x For 2015 Global Rallycross Season
The 2015 Red Bull Global Rallycross season kicks off at the end of May, and Subaru is ready to come out swinging. Once again turning to Vermont SportsCar to create its racing superstars, the team has created the STI-based VT15x. It's a 580-horsepower all-wheel-drive gravel-ready rocket. We're not...
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Ken Block is a man who understands many of the finer concepts of car control. His Gymkhana videos are certainly proof of that. He's not just out to capture YouTube views though, as he also strives to stand atop podiums in the Global Rallycross series. MUST SEE: The Average Bugatti Owner Has 84 Cars, 3 Jets, And A Yacht The GRC circuit was recently in Los Angeles, and prior to the full sessions you have to run the practice sessions. Here's what that looks like, as captured in the video above. It looks like a pretty fun course, thanks in part to that jump but also to the combination of high and...
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Volkswagen Shows Off A Bit More Of Its GRC Beetle: Video
Volkswagen is pretty excited to share its new Global Rallycross car. The vehicle in question is a highly modified VW Beetle, and its a bug that doesn't like to be called Herbie. There's good reason for that too, seeing as the GRC Beetle makes 540 horsepower from its 1.6-liter inline turbo four and...
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Tanner Foust Tests The New VW Beetle Global Rallycross Car: Video
If the thought of 0-60 mph in under two seconds—on dirt!—turbos spooling, rev limiters popping, and four-wheel powerslides don’t sound like fun, you’re not living right. Tanner Foust, however, surely is. This is his new Volkswagen Beetle Global Rallycross car. MUST SEE...
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Foust, Volkswagen Win Red Bull Global Rallycross New York: Video
Tanner Foust and Scott Speed put their Volkswagen Andretti Global Rallycross Polo race cars on the first and second steps of the podium at the Red Bull GRC New York event this weekend, though a penalty ultimately stripped Speed of his second place finish. The result marks a massive outcome for the...
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2014 Volkswagen Beetle Global RallyCross Championship Car Revealed
The 2014 Global RallyCross Championship got underway back in May and after the first two rounds it’s America’s Scott Speed, driving for the Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross team, who sits at the top of the points ladder. The Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross team, which also includes Tanner...
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Rhys Millen Thrashes Global Rallycross Car Around Streets Of Washington, D.C.: Video
The Global Rallycross Championship is one of the most exciting racing series in the United States, so where better to celebrate it than in the nation’s capital? That’s exactly what Rhys Millen has done, escorted by a police motorcade on his way to the track at RFK stadium. MUST SEE...
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The 2014 Global RallyCross Championship got underway in sunny Barbados over the weekend, and on hand to help kick off the new season was none other than Formula One ace Lewis Hamilton. The Mercedes AMG driver was there to participate in the coinciding Top Gear Live event and took some time out to take part in a thrilling exhibition race with Ken Block. MUST SEE: 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat: Live Photos And Video Hamilton was driving his Mercedes AMG F1 car from the previous season while Block was behind the wheel of his Fiesta ST rallycross car. The two cars couldn’t be more...
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2015 Subaru WRX STI Global Rallycross Car Previewed At 2014 NY Auto Show
Subaru will give showgoers an early peek at its 2015 WRX STI Global RallyCross car at the 2014 New York Auto Show.
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Ford Fiesta ST Rallycross Car Plays In The Snow: Video
This year, America’s Global Rallycross Championship will face stiff competition from the new FIA-sanctioned World Rallycross Championship. A handful of drivers are common to both competitions, as are a number of the cars, such as the Ford Fiesta ST. MUST WATCH: Lamborghini Aventador Goes...
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Tanner Foust Commits To Both Global And World Rallycross Championships In 2014
The Global Rallycross Championship has enjoyed much success since its inaugural season back in 2011 and over the years has managed to snag a number of top drivers, major automakers and legions of fans all across the globe. However, there’s a new player in town, the World Rallycross...
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VW And Andretti Autosport To Field Beetle In Global RallyCross
The Global RallyCross Championship is back for another year and one of the teams to watch in 2014 is newcomer Volkswagen, which has partnered with Andretti Autosport and will be fielding a new GRC racer based on its Beetle compact. The team has also managed to snag 2011 and 2012 GRC champion Tanner...
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The Newest Global RallyCross Car Is A ... Chevy Sonic?
Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic boom. Sonic screwdriver. Many things go with Sonic, but Global RallyCross? Apparently that one works, too. At least, that's the plan for Pat Moro, 2012's most successful privateer in the GRC series. This weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Moro will debut the new PMR...
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The Global Rallycross series is currently on its way to Loudon, New Hampshire after spending a few weeks overseas. The series has several races to take care of stateside before jetting back to Europe for a battle in Germany, but apparently there's a U.S. city feeling a bit left out, and it would like a date on that schedule. Detroit wants to host a GRC event, and it took to the streets of the city to make its case. The Ford Fiesta ST has become a potent weapon in the series, helping Ford to a massive lead in the manufacturers' points standing. So it should be no surprise that the Ford ST was...
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X Games Global RallyCross Barcelona Canceled Due To Rain
Global RallyCross was set to make its X Games appearance in Barcelona, Spain. Things didn't go as planned, however, and the race wound up being cancelled. What does it take to cancel a RallyCross race? Rain, apparently. Fans who were set to watch the race were a bit unhappy, and took to Facebook...
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Subaru Joins Global RallyCross Championship At Barcelona
Subaru is going racing, and the automaker has a brand new team to show off. Partnering up with PUMA, Subaru is sending a handful of rally-prepped WRX STI race machines to the X Games in Barcelona. The event at hand is Global RallyCross Championship, and the team drivers are Bucky Lasek, Dave Mirra...
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Global RallyCross Championship Adds New Lites Class
The latest season of the Global RallyCross Championship has just kicked off and the action so far has been thick and fast. But going into the future we can look forward to even more GCR goodness, with organizers confirming today that a new Lites class is being introduced. We first heard of the new...
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Subaru "Launch Control" Rally Web Series: Episode 1
If you're like us, you love rally. You might even have spent last weekend driving a Neon through a bunch of dirt and cones until its brakes failed. And you might be interested in Subaru's new web series "Launch Control," set to cover the company's rally efforts with Subaru Rally Team USA and Subaru...
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Scott Speed Takes Gold At Global Rallycross X Games Brazil: Video
Scott Speed was once a Formula 1 driver. Before that, he was known as one of the fastest men alive in a kart. Now he's doing all kinds of stuff, including driving the occasional Global Rallycross car. Turns out he's pretty good at that, too. While big names in rallycross like Ken Block, Travis...
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