HEDSTROM AND IKONEN MAKE EUROPEAN RETURN

Having run cars in their respective teams for rising stars of rallycross in recent events, Swede Peter Hedstrom and Finn Mikko

Ikonen will return to the European Rallycross Championship grid next week at Riga in Latvia.

Hedstroms Motorsport ran rising World Rally star Oliver Solberg to victory in the Swedish round of the series at Holjes last month, until being excluded for an underbody weight infringement post-race. With Hedstroms teammate Anders Michalak choosing to sit out the Latvian round, team owner Peter Hedstrom will return to the European series.

“This was an excellent opportunity, everything was booked and ready, so it was just a matter of jumping in,” said Hedstrom, who has previously finished on the podium in Riga and will race a Volkswagen Polo next week.

“I have always been fast in Riga it’s a track suits me well.”

Ikonen meanwhile will drive the Hyundai i20 that his team has run so far this year in Nitro RX and Euro RX events for Jamaican driver Fraser McConnell. While McConnell won the Nitro RX European Supercar series, he made the final in the European series in Norway two weeks ago.