Double champion Chrissy Palmer leads the RX150 Rallycross Championship into round two at Lydden Hill this weekend (April 17), but the grid of accomplished racers looking to topple Palmer from the top spot grows even strong for the Easter Bank Holiday event. Palmer continued to be the dominant force of the RX150 category at Croft Circuit, the first event of
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reland’s most successful rallycross driver ever, Derek Tohill, achieved a career best international Supercar result at the opening round of the FIA European Rallycross Championship at Barcelona in Spain (April 2). Tohill’s PFCRX team entered the new Euro RX season on the back of significant work in the winter months, which paid dividends through the Catalan weekend. In the 32-car
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Two-time Euro RX Champion Derek Tohill will embark on his seventh FIA European Rallycross Championship campaign this weekend at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Spain (April 1 – 2). The PFCRX driver joins a 32-strong field for his second full season at the top level in European Rallycross, Supercar, racing the squad’s OlsbergsMSE-built 600 horsepower, four-wheel drive Ford Fiesta. Having contested
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Double FIA European Rallycross Champion Derek Tohill continued preparations for the international rallycross season by winning the second round of the Irish Rallycross Championship at Mondello Park on Sunday (March 5), his second win of the year. Having claimed victory at the opening round of the season last month, on the revised anti-clockwise Mondello Park layout that was used again
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As you will probably have read (HERE) the opening round of the Irish Rallycross Championship was a resounding success. An impressive social media campaign, combined with Mondello Park’s exciting decision to run the meeting anti clockwise, meant Rallycross was suddenly arrived again, with the cancelled meetings and low entries a thing of the past. This Sunday at Mondello, it is
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Two-time FIA European Rallycross TouringCar Champion Derek Tohill will be reunited with the Ford Fiesta that he raced to a brace of European crowns this weekend, as car and driver perform to a packed audience at the Autosport International Show in Birmingham (January 12 – 15). The 2016 Irish Rallycross Champion will drive the rear-wheel drive Fiesta in the Live Action
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The latest rounds of the PartsforCars.ie Irish Rallycross Championship took place at Pembrey racing circuit in Wales at the weekend. Glorious sunshine made the circuit very quick and very dusty. The “IRL1” driver, Willie Coyne, was lucky to make the Sunday Superfinal after he lost his way in the dust and narrowly avoided the barrier on the exit in the
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