Manfred Stohl
and Max Pucher decided to have their own ways for 2017 as MJP Racing
becomes MJP Racing Team Austria and Stohl
Racing brings a new outfit to the FIA
World Rallycross Championship with
Stohl's R&D company STARD
lending the name to the new team and taking care of the development
of the rallycross cars.
STARD is becoming known by
having cool projects in different areas, like the partnership with
Kia that allowed them to build the K-FORCE Kia Cee'd TCR machine,
still to debut in the customer racing oriented touring class, and
also the HIPER MK1, their first approach in an electric car suited to
rallying and rallycross, which will also serve as the base to their
most recent agreement, as STARD will develop the machines for the new
E/RACING championship for electric rallycross cars.
About the World RX
campaign, STARD will have a pair of Ford
Fiesta ST RXS cars on track for the
2017 season, and the team announced Latvian young gun Janis
Baumanis and Euro RX champion Timur
Timerzyanov as the drivers, retaining
the lineup from what was the World RX Team Austria. While Timerzyanov
is rather consistent on track, he needs to find it with his teams as
STARD is the fourth team in four World RX seasons for him, but
sometimes he showed his fast pace that gave him two European titles,
so he is always a guy to watch. Baumanis came with titles in his
curriculum to the World RX scene, and with his convincing performance
in 2015 in Argentina he got a seat into World RX Team Austria, having
similar pace of his Russian team mate and ending the 2016 season not
that far behind him, and he can be a strong contender if everything
goes right.
2017 will also mark the
second season of Manfred Stohl being only on the managerial side,
acting as team principal, after participating of the championship in
2014 and 2015.
PHOTO: STARD
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