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  1. Volkswagen News Blog
    The  Porsche  911  Turbo  will serve as the official  safety  car for the Sports Car World Endurance Championship (WEC) from now until 2020. The German automaker has revealed the look for the safety and support cars, wearing a matte black finish with glossy red stripes. Sporting 540 horsepower...
  2. Misc. Professional Racing
    For the first time ever, American rallycross fans will be able to see the FIA World Rallycross Championship at home, as the series has announced that next year’s calendar will include a race at the Circuit of the Americas. For years, the closest American fan could get to seeing the European...
  3. Misc. Professional Racing
    Johann Kristoffersson and Petter Solberg, Volkswagen’s dynamic duo of Scandi rallycrossers, took control early and completely during the Canadian leg of the World Rallycross Championship. Despite being the only North American leg of the championship, the drivers were anything but exhausted by...
  4. Misc. Professional Racing
    With all the fuss that’s going on over at Formula E lately, it’s only natural that other racing series want to introduce an electric series of their own. Rallycross is next, with the FIA World Rallycross Championship announcing that it will add an electric sub-series as early as 2020. “We’re...
  5. Misc. Professional Racing
    Continuing its dominance of mixed-surface racing, VW defended its lead in the FIA World Rallycross Championship. A lead in the European series means that Volkswagen tops the standings in the two major rallycross series currently operating. This weekend, in Holjes, Sweden, Johann Kristoffersson...
  6. Misc. Professional Racing
    A wild race led to PSRX Volkswagen Team Sweden’s first victory in the 2017 season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. Johan Kristoffersson climbed to the top spot on the podium, dethroning series leader Mattias Ekström for the first time this season. His teammate, meanwhile, Petter...
  7. Volkswagen News Blog
    Johan Kristoffersson and Petter Solberg had a disappointing end to their weekend in Portugal, finishing third and sixth respectively. Although the two Volkswagen drivers scored enough points to get keep them in second and third in the drivers’ standings, they had doubtless hoped for more...
  8. Misc. Professional Racing
    Fire up the rumor mill, Audi’s reportedly attending an FIA meeting about F1 engines. According to German website, Spox , Audi will be in attendance at a meeting the FIA is holding in Paris to discuss the future (after 2021) of engine regulations in Formula 1. The meeting’s details are still...
  9. Misc. Professional Racing
    Fromer WRC and WRX champion Petter Solberg and his teammate Johan Kristoffersson were Stockholm, Sweden to launch their entry for the 2017 World Rallycross Championship. The two will be racing under the banner of a brand new team, going from 0-60 in less than two seconds thanks to the 570 hp...
  10. Misc. Professional Racing
    Frank Welsch, VW’s head of Technical development, has revealed that Volkswagen is on a steering group to develop an all-electric rallycross championship. The VW Group’s motorsport boss Wolfgang Durheimer, meanwhile, revealed that VW is building a prototype for such a series, to prove that the...
  11. Misc. Professional Racing
    Karl Schagerl’s hillclimb Golf is a site to behold, and here, climbing the hills of the Czech Republic, it’s a symphony for the ears, too. The race in question is the FIA’s Hill Climb Masters, in the Czech Republic. The one weekend event (held back in October) features all of the champions from...
  12. Misc. Professional Racing
    On October 27 Sebastien Ogier, fresh off his championship winning performance in Spain, will be in Wales fighting to get his team, Volkswagen Motorsport, the manufacturer’s title. With him, he’ll have his two teammates, and some moral support from Bertie the Beetle Bertie is a 1958 Volkswagen...
  13. Misc. Professional Racing
    Sebastien Ogier and his co-driver Julien Ingrassa could stay at home and watch the final two legs of the 2016 World Rally Championship on TV and they’d still have enough points to be crowned this season’s champions. That’s because the pair won this weekend’s Rally RACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada in...
  14. Misc. Professional Racing
    Although the Beetle could rightly be called dominant in the Red Bull Global Rallycross series, its sister car, the Polo RX, could not be called the same. Its luck might be changing, though, as Volkswagen RX Sweden driver Johan Kristoffersson won his first rallycross of the 2016 season this...
  15. Misc. Professional Racing
    Johan Kristoffersson, racing in his Volkswagen RX Sweden Polo RX earned his first podium of the season at this year’s Canada RX,  the first to take place off European soil. The Final race took place in the rain, which benefited Kristoffersson, as point leader and pole-sitter Petter Solberg...
  16. Misc. Professional Racing
    Team Volkswagen RX Sweden’s Johann Kristofferson had a tough weekend in Hell, Norway, racing in the fifth round of the World Rallycross Championship just missing Sunday’s final race. It was a tough weekend all along for the Swede, who never quite posted times among the top runners...
  17. Rally Racing
    It was a big weekend in WRC as the famous Vodafone Rally de Portugal drew hundreds of thousands of fans and Volkswagen Motorsports extended its championship lead substantially, claiming two steps on the podium. Andreas Mikkelsen and co-driver Anders Jaeger were the top VW performers in...
  18. Rally Racing
    The World Rallycross Championship was in Germany this weekend for the second round of the season. Unfortunately, things ended poorly for team-favorite Johan Kristoffersson when he was bumped out of the lead in what commentator Andrew Coley called the most spectacular semi final-race he'd ever...
  19. Rally Racing
    The team at Volkswagen Motorsport are the current experts at building rally cars. Having won last year’s World Rally Championship and leading this year’s handily, they team seem to have a handle on going fast with low grip. One of the keys to that success appears to be getting an early start...
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