Double World Rally champion Marcus Gronholm will head up a two-car Hyundai team in the 2018 World Rallycross Championship. The GRX Taneco team will field pair of ex-WRC Hyundai i20 Supercars for triple European champion Timur Timerzyanov and Gronholm's son, Niclas. The cars, based on Hyundai Motorsport’s 2016 i20 WRC platform, have been adapted for rallycross use and will run as a private effort in 2018. Hyundai WRC boss Michel Nandan previously worked with Gronholm at Peugeot during his title-winning seasons. “We have chosen to use the i20 for this programme because of my previous connections with Michel Nandan,” said Gronholm. “We have a good relationship [with Hyundai], but we...
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