If you’re wondering whether petrol or electric is best for motorsport, you should get an answer by the time this season’s FIA World Rallycross championship climaxes in Australia in December.
It’s the only series that has petrol and electric competing in the same races, and should be pretty spectacular, given the power outputs invovled. As ever with rallycross, the venues are part-road, part-dirt, and through the course of a race the conditions change as more mud and gravel gets strewn around. And with events happening in Sweden, Hungary, Belgium and Portugal, as well as France and Australia, the weather could be a big factor.
Kevin, who finished as runner-up last year, says: ‘I think the most fun you can have is in the RX1e car. It is much more powerful, a bigger challenge for braking, the torque is unbelieveabe, the speeds that you get, you can’t compare it to anything. ‘Rallycross is always going to be the most fun, the most exciting and the most challenging motorsport in my opinion. Any driver that comes in and tries always struggles because it is something different. You are required to push yourself to an extreme, and your car to an extreme, and your car control to an extreme, and push your competitor to an extreme as well.’‘It’s quite simple. You get a better race car. His team has done a great job delivering a car and understanding it very quickly.