One in every of rallycross’s most profitable groups has revealed their hand forward of the 2024 FIA World Rallycross Championship.
Constructing on a aggressive season in 2023, Hansen World RX Group stays unchanged heading into the brand new 12 months. 2019 champion Timmy Hansen will drive one of many two Peugeot 208 RX1e vehicles alongside his brother, 2016 European rallycross champion Kevin Hansen.
In 2024, these electrical vehicles will face a brand new adversary, with the “Battle of Applied sciences” idea showing for the primary time. Electrical rallycross vehicles will line up on the grid alongside their sustainably fuelled inner combustion engine counterparts.
The choice to stick with all-electric equipment is certainly unsurprising, with each brothers having been enormous advocates for electrical rallycross vehicles since their introduction. Chatting with The Checkered Flag in July 2023, Timmy Hansen had some musings about the way to make electrical rallycross extra in style.
“Possibly the error has been not placing these vehicles aspect by aspect,” he steered. “If folks would have seen how briskly these vehicles are, you possibly can cheer for anyone out on monitor however the electrical vehicles would win 9 out of ten races, primarily as a result of we’d be miles out forward proper from the beginning. Folks haven’t seen how briskly the automotive is in a aspect by aspect comparability, and I feel, if that they had seen it, the perspective would have been very totally different.”
Now that this “Battle of Applied sciences” is changing into a actuality, he’s relishing the problem. In a Hansen World RX Group press launch, he stated “the electrical may have some strengths, however so will the combustion – which shall be rather a lot lighter within the laws – so will probably be very attention-grabbing and for positive make the championship extra unpredictable.”
CE Supplier Group, one other veteran workforce of electrical rallycross, have additionally introduced their unchanged driver line-up for an all-electric workforce. Because the grid begins to replenish, will probably be intriguing to see the stability between inner combustion and electrical vehicles, after which how they fare on the monitor.
