Hansen World RX Team Confirm All-Electric Line-Up

Considered one 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 Workforce stays unchanged heading into the brand new 12 months. 2019 champion Timmy Hansen will drive one of many two Peugeot 208 RX1e automobiles alongside his brother, 2016 European rallycross champion Kevin Hansen.

In 2024, these electrical automobiles will face a brand new adversary, with the “Battle of Applied sciences” idea showing for the primary time. Electrical rallycross automobiles will line up on the grid alongside their sustainably fuelled inside combustion engine counterparts.

The choice to stick with all-electric equipment is unquestionably unsurprising, with each brothers having been big advocates for electrical rallycross automobiles since their introduction. Talking to The Checkered Flag in July 2023, Timmy Hansen had some musings about make electrical rallycross extra standard.

“Perhaps the error has been not placing these automobiles aspect by aspect,” he instructed. “If folks would have seen how briskly these automobiles are, you’ll be able to cheer for anyone out on monitor however the electrical automobiles would win 9 out of ten races, primarily as a result of we might be miles out forward proper from the beginning. Individuals haven’t seen how briskly the automobile is in a aspect by aspect comparability, and I believe, if they’d seen it, the perspective would have been very completely different.”

Now that this “Battle of Applied sciences” is changing into a actuality, he’s relishing the problem. In a Hansen World RX Workforce press launch, he stated “the electrical could have some strengths, however so will the combustion – which will probably be quite a bit lighter within the laws – so it is going to be very attention-grabbing and for positive make the championship extra unpredictable.”

CE Supplier Workforce, one other veteran staff of electrical rallycross, have additionally introduced their unchanged driver line-up for an all-electric staff. Because the grid begins to replenish, it is going to be intriguing to see the steadiness between inside combustion and electrical automobiles, after which how they fare on the monitor.