Global RallyCross Championship

  • 2013 Dodge Dart Global RallyCross car

    A new season of the Global RallyCross Championship starts this month, and returning for another year of competition is Dodge, together with star driver Travis Pastrana. Pastrana will once again be piloting a specially prepared Dodge Dart rally car built by SRT Motorsports, of which two examples will be fielded this season. The second car will be piloted by Bryce Menzies. The first race of the 2013 season kicks off on April 21 in Brazil and will be followed by eight other races, including events held in Germany, Spain and the U.S. Pastrana only finished 10th overall last season, having won...

  • Tanner Foust's 2013 Rockstar Energy Ford Fiesta ST Global Rallycross car
    Tanner Foust Shows Off His 2013 Ford Fiesta ST Rally Car

    Last month, the 2013 Ford Fiesta ST Global RallyCross race car broke cover at the Chicago Auto Show. Dressed in a generic Ford livery, it was announced that drivers Tanner Foust and Brian Deegan would campaign the 2013 Global RallyCross Championship season behind the wheel of OlsbergsMSE-prepared...

  • 2013 Ford Fiesta ST Global RallyCross race car live shots
    Ford Fiesta ST Heads To Global RallyCross Championship

    Ford will be using Thursday’s 2013 Chicago Auto Show to announce an expanded lineup for this year’s Global RallyCross Championship, where the automaker will also debut the new Fiesta ST Global RallyCross race car that it hopes will continue to see it victorious in the new season. The...

  • The 2012 Subaru PUMA Rallycross team
    Global RallyCross Championship Eyes Expansion With New Class

    The problem with racing at a professional level is this: if you want to go fast, it’s expensive; if you want to win, it can be exponentially more expensive. In fact, there are very few professional series we can name that give drivers of modest means the ability to climb the ranks without...

  • Hyundai Turbo Veloster Global Rallycross car, available from RMR - image: RMR
    Rhys Millen Racing Hosting Hyundai-Themed Garage Sale

    Sometimes, you never see the divorce coming until the kindly-looking lady serves you with papers. Though we don’t know all the behind-the-scenes details, we surmise that’s likely how the four-year marriage between Hyundai and Rhys Millen Racing (RMR)ended. Just one month after Rhys...

  • Rhys Millen and his Hyundai Genesis Coupe at the 2012 Pikes Peak Hill Climb
    Hyundai Pulls Out Of Motorsport Sponsorship In The United States

    Just days after Hyundai Europe confirmed it would return to the World Rally Championship with a highly-modified version of its i20 hatchback, Hyundai Motor America has announced an end to its motorsport programs in North America. Rhys Millen Racing, which has partnered with Hyundai in Formula...

  • Travis Pastrana jumps his Dodge Dart rallycross car at Texas Motor Speedway. Image via Facebook.

    You've already seen Travis Pastrana at the wheel of his new Dodge Dart rally/rallycross car. Now you can see the car in wheel-to-wheel action against the best in the business as they take to the track--and the jumps--at Texas Motor Speedway. The Global RallyCross Championship, if you're not familiar, is a bit like supermoto for cars, with elements of track driving and motocross-style jumps thrown in. For Pastrana, a whiz on a two wheels or four, the event looks like fun, but the result wasn't great. A bad start, a spin, and the chance of a good result was gone. Regardless of the outcome...

  • 2012 Hyundai Veloster rally car
    Rhys Millen Sticks With Hyundai For 2012 Global RallyCross Championship

    If a Kiwi and a Korean car maker seem like an odd couple, you haven't been paying attention the past few years. Few brand-driver partnerships have seemed to fit so well, in fact, and the duo will continue for the 2012 Global RallyCross Championship in 2012. Millen's brand of hoonage seems to fit...

  • The 2012 Subaru PUMA Rallycross team
    Subaru Launches PUMA Rallycross Team With New Video

    The Global Rallycross Championship is one of our favorite new forms of motorsport (new to the U.S., anyway), with motocross-like racing for some incredibly fierce rally-bred cars. For 2012, Subaru and PUMA will be joining forces to take on the energy drink makers and other OEMs of the world...

  • 2013 Dodge Dart Global RallyCross car
    2013 Dodge Dart And Travis Pastrana Ready For RallyCross

    For anyone unfamiliar with RallyCross, it’s essentially a form of sprint style rally racing held on a closed track usually covered in gravel or dirt and featuring Motocross-style jumps. The cars that compete in RallyCross are typically based on regular production models, though they’re...

  • Global RallyCross Championship
    Global RallyCross Pikes Peak 'Last Chance' Preview: Video

    The first season of the Global RallyCross Championship is drawing to a close, but there's still some action to see with the Last Chance Pikes Peak event on TV this weekend.

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    WRC Champ Gronholm Takes Victory At First Global RallyCross Event: Video

    The first event in the new Global RallyCross Championship (GRC) was held this weekend at Irwindale Speedway in California. After all was said and done, former World Rally Championship (WRC) winning driver Marcus Gronholm took the victory in the top AWD class. It was no easy victory for Gronholm, as...

  • Global RallyCross Championship

    Less than two weeks remain to the debut of the Global RallyCross Championship (GRC) at Irwindale Speedway, and now the series has a promo video, courtesy of ESPN. Packed full of recognizable names like Block, Foust, and Millen, the series mixes motocross with rally cars and results in a whole lot of awesome. Check out our previous coverage of the series for more, and head over to the official page to see the full schedule. For even more detail, head over to ESPN.

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