World Rallycross Championship a.k.a RALLYX

[saco0o]

ufff now every WorldRX social media accounts disapeared.
not sure for rebranding or if its just dead...?

and now it seems the czech autocross championship got nyirad's date for them. rallyx also got kymiring in their european series calendar (monte, valkenswaard, latvia, sweden, kymiring, denmark, estering)

[BobJones]

Can't help but feel that WorldRX is dead, probably communicated as a 'pause'. Alongside Nitro going away, seems like the Eriksson's RallyX programme could be all that's left - but I worry they may stretch too far too quick with the 'global' concept. Hoping not!

[AndyRAC]

Needs a rethink - RX is not, and has never been a 'global' sport, despite people trying to convince us all it is. I liken it to Cyclocross in cycling.

Make it a strong privateer European championship; if there's interest outside Europe, have a FiA World Cup.

[saco0o]

true! tbf i got really happy seeing rallyx announcing (on christmas) their "european championship". i thought they were going to run the north series and the south series as their main focus but i guess its going to be a full "european championship" now - with secondary titles for the north & south participants, like indycar does giving titles to oval champion and street/road champions. thats to incentive more drivers to compete on their regions probably

the "global series" will be a fiasco. only the monster energy team has the actual cash to do 3 rounds in europe and 2 in america. the other teams dont have that $. I hope they scrap that. just have all rounds in europe, for f sake, we are seeing this sport doesnt work outside europe. cant they see that too? jeezzzz

[saco0o]

apparently Kenneth Hansen said they may have to wait until february to know if there will be a new promoter for world rx. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5xfRWfgZxY )

while they all wait, rosberg racing ended their extreme-e team. they are not joining the extreme-h championship. ( https://racer.com/2024/12/27/rosberg...am-shuts-down/ )

and travis pastrana basically mentioned in a recent post that nitrocross is gone for good.
( https://www.facebook.com/TravisPastr...fPFsgFSaiRQKvl )

[rallyfiend]

Sounds like all 3 series are essentially dead

[Kenneth]

Maybe WorldRX will merge with RallyX?

It's really wierd, all things looked set up for 2025 season and it's gone out of nowhere

[saco0o]

social medias are back. they posted an update about waiting for a new promoter to take over.
i found on reddit that someone talked to holjes regarding tickets for 2025, they said they are planning for the race but still need to 'get things cleat with the new promoter'. not sure what i think atm. i just want the rallyx european series to be a success. the series is even offering help to pay northern teams to go race in the rounds at montealegre and valkenswaard

[deephouse]

I saw somewhere that Gronholm will drive in Finnish Rally Championship, so that's a bad sign also. Less competition, less chance of surving that series. Maybe also many guys did lost motivation, since no one can beat Kristoffersson, even when he have bad race, he won.

[saco0o]

on a random note, i just found out that there is EIGHTEEN of those ugly nitrocross' eSUVs sold and 'ready to race" in america.
EIGHTEEN! i dont believe starting from the TOP (with half million buck electric suvs) is the right way to start a championship (especially in america, where theres no rx roots), but maaan, eighteeeen cars!! thats a pretty decent number for a RX championship