SCOTT SET TO TACKLE FIRST AMERICA SR X EVENT IN PEUGEOT
New category will begin with maiden round at silver stone
Albatec Racing team owner and driver Andy Scott will race in the opening round of the new-for-2018 Americas Rallycross Championship this weekend at Silverstone.
Scott, who made his first appearance of the season in the third round of the British Rallycross Championship at Croft recently and qualified on pole position for the final, will drive one of his Albatec team’s Peugeot 208s in the event, while team-mate Mark Higgins competes in the World RX category.
The new ARX series will run over four rounds in 2018, joining World RX events at Silverstone, in Canada (August) and at COTA in the USA (September) with an additional event to be held in the USA.
Scott, who previously raced a Scott-Eklund Racing Saab 93 in GRC events in 2012, currently only has plans to race in the opening round of ARX.
“I’m very excited about racing at Silverstone in ARX. IMG [series promoter] has pulled together an incredible event with World RX, ARX, and RX2 plus the music festival, and various track demonstrations and displays,” he said. “Tanner Foust and Scott Speed will be in very competitive cars, and the Subaru drivers equally so. It will be good to race against them.”
The full entry list for the ARX seasonopener was yet to be revealed when MN went to print-on Monday, but up to 10 cars are expected, with two ARX qualifying races appearing in the event schedule.
Former champions of the now defunct American-based Global Rallycross Championship, Tanner Foust and Scott Speed, are expected to race a pair of Andretti Autosport-run Volkswagen Beetle Supercars, while former WRC drivers Chris Atkinson and Patrick Sandell are expected to drive for the Vermont Sports Car-operated Subaru Rally Team USA in the new series.