Muller and Doran return

DTM driver Nico Muller will reunite with the title winner EKS for his third World Rallycross appearance, as Liam Doran will also make his series return.

Muller (below) entered an EKS Audi S1 in both French and Latvian rounds in 2017, reaching the final of the latter. He has since run as part of an official in-season test at the Riga venue in

July ahead of his return.

“I have done some testing since my last race outing and the new car is for sure faster and I can feel the improvements have been done in all areas,” he said. “Despite the competitive field at the top of World RX nowadays, I would hope to repeat or even improve the result from last year’s Latvia RX, where I finished P6 in the final. This is a track I like and know well, so the chance is there.”

Meanwhile, GC Kompetition Prodrive Renault team has signed Liam Doran

(right) to race in the French round of the championship at Loheac this weekend.

The 31-year-old will drive one of the squad’s Prodrive-built Megane RS RX Supercars alongside team owner and driver Guerlain Chicherit, replacing Frenchman Jerome Grosset-janin after he parted company with the team.

Doran last competed in World RX with the JRM Racing team in 2016 – the same squad with which Chicherit also made his first series start in the same year – driving a Mini Countryman RX, but split with the squad mid-season.

He then had his race licence suspended for the 2017 season after an altercation at the Gatebil festival in Norway.