Ireland’s most successful rallycross driver of all time, double FIA European Rallycross Champion Derek Tohill, will get his 2018 Euro RX season underway this weekend at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Spain (April 14 – 15).

Ten years on from making his European Rallycross debut in a Division Two Honda Civic, Derek and the PFCRX squad embark on a third year racing in the headline Supercar category this season with a 600 horsepower, four-wheel drive OlsbergsMSE-built Ford Fiesta that accelerates from 0-60 mph in less than two seconds.

The Irish team stepped up a level last season in the highly-competitive top tier of Euro RX and challenged for a place in the final at every event throughout Europe, only just missing out on a maiden Euro RX Supercar podium. Following a winter of developments to the Fiesta undertaken by preparation experts C-Sport, PFCRX is hoping to climb even further up the rankings this term.

The competition will be fierce in Euro RX Supercar in 2018, with a 30-car strong line-up compromising of national, European and World champions and event winners, some campaigning works-built cars. Following round one in Spain this weekend, the series heads to Belgium (Mettet), Sweden (Holjes), France (Loheac) and Latvia (Riga).

You can keep up to date with the event this weekend via the live timing facility on the FIA World Rallycross Championship website, live television coverage of the Euro RX final on Sunday afternoon and via Derek Tohill’s Social Media channels. 

Derek commented, “I’ve been asked several times what we’ve done over the winter, but being honest it’s more a case of what we haven’t done. We have looked at every area and the boys at C-Sport have worked very hard on the car which has had a full rebuild along with continued development.” He added, “We had a good shakedown at Mondello last week, it helped us iron some things out before the truck left for Spain. It’s always nice to drive at home, and to support Irish rallycross. Outside of the car, another of my plans for moving forward this year is to keep everyone more up to date via our social media channels, so check them out and give us a follow.”