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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - March 2, 2012 - Andreas Eriksson and Olsbergs Motor Sport Evolution boasted an all star driver line up for the inaugural 2011Global RallyCross championship. Any line-up that starts with two-time world champion Marcus Gronholm, 2011 GRC champ Tanner Foust and X Games 17 champ Brian Deegan is formidable. So with an eye [...]

KEN BLOCK AND THE MONSTER WORLD RALLY TEAM ANNOUNCE THEIR 2012 SCHEDULE AS WELL AS REVEAL AN ALL-NEW TEAM LIVERY WITH SOME HELP FROM HOLLYWOOD ACTOR NICK SWARDSON. Part 1 - Nick Swardson as Ken Block Video: VIEW Part 2 - “Car Porn” video directed by Steve Berra: VIEW February 20th, 2012, Los Angeles, California [...]

Minneapolis, MN, February 21, 2012 - Three-time GRC winner and two-time World Rally Champion Marcus Grönholm will return to the Series in 2012 to lead a two-car assault on the GRC title and X Games 18 gold from Best Buy Racing. The second Best Buy car will be driven by leading British RallyCross Championship contender [...]

BRASELTON, Ga., 6 January – JRD Motorsports is pleased to announce new technology partnership agreements with two of Europe’s most accomplished rallycross preparation outfits. Engine builder Trollspeed AB of Trollhättan, Sweden and chassis builder Ingvar Gunnarsson Motorsports AB of Öxnevalla, Sweden, will provide JRD Motorsports exclusive rights to their proprietary technical designs. Both Trollspeed and [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y., 21 November – Ken Block and the Monster World Rally Team are pleased to announce Block’s latest collaborative partnership: teaming up with industry-leading toy car manufacturer Hot Wheels for his own line of toy cars, just in time for the 2011 holiday season. “This is a dream come true, I never actually thought [...]

LAS VEGAS, 4 November – The SEMA Show in Las Vegas is the premier gathering of auto makers and specialty products manufacturers. Each year, thousands of show attendees demonstrate the trends and products that will make their way to retail and showroom floors around the world, making the SEMA the place to be to spot what [...]

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Ca., 21 October | The second season of Global RallyCross Championship competition expands to five dates in addition to the two days of competition at X Games Los Angeles 2012 for a total of seven rounds of competition. Each round will be televised live on ESPN or ESPN2 as well as ESPN 3D. [...]

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Ca., 11 October | The Global RallyCross Championship today tapped Wasserman Media Group, LLC to head their business development efforts,including growing business relationships, as well as manufacturer and commercial partnerships for the quickly growing auto racing series. “In just one season, the series founders have worked tirelessly to put rallycross on the map [...]

Last April, at the Global RallyCross Championship round “Twin Peaks,” Tanner Foust, Dave Mirra and the rest of the GRC stars raced through a 500 foot long, turn of the century industrial building, went power sliding around a muddy “boneyard” and over a 70-foot gap jump.  It was an inspiring site, but no more so [...]

GRC points leader Tanner Foust appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday (26 July) in his Rockstar Energy Drink Ford Fiesta Global RallyCross Championship car. In the appearance, Tanner successfully “parallel parked” the Fiesta between two New York taxis (Ford Crown Victorias, by the way) at speed on West 53rd Street which [...]