Most of the FIA
world championships in activity concentrate their events outside
Europe in the Americas or Asia, with a visit to Africa or Australasia
being a rare occasion, currently with the Cross-Country Rally World
Cup, the World Touring Car Championship and the Formula E in the
early future. But from 2017 onwards, South Africa will be back in the
world championship route, with the FIA
World Rallycross Championship holding
an annual event as part of a multi-year deal.
The future
destination of rallycross in Africa will be the Killarney
International Raceway in Cape Town, a
race track that started its activities in the late 40s and even
received non-championship Formula 1 events in the 60s, and then the
venue has grown and became able to hold almost any kind of circuit
racing and off-road event. In between Killarney’s history and the
future World RX
plans, a rallycross is being built there to be a permanent one.
Along with being the
first rallycross event in African soil, the Killarney RX will be the
one to end the season in place of San Luis, Argentina, but without a
confirmation of the full 2017 calendar, it is unclear that the South
American round or any other of the current ones will leave the
schedule or will be moved to an earlier date.
The African
rallycross scenario is taking slow steps but results are also coming
with this as Kenya’s representative Tejas
Hirani from Olsbergs
MSE being 7th
in the RX Lites standings and scoring a 5th
place finish as his best result along with some participations on
RallyX Nordic and the RallyX On Ice winter championship in
Scandinavia.
PHOTO: Killarney International Raceway
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